Bart D.E.
Psalms are not all attributed to David, only some are; and some of the ones that are could not have been written by him, even if he did write some (the famous Psalm 23, e.g., ends with a wish to reside in the temple for ever; the temple wasn’t built in David’s day). Ecclesiastes certainly claims to be written by Solomon (without naming him) but shows clear influence from Epicurean philosophy, which did not appear until 600 years after Solomon. Song of Solomon (better: Song of Songs) contains a Persian word for “garden,” so appears to have been written in the Persian Period, 4th century BCE or so.
Description of David and Solomon by Finklestein
The reputations of the first great kings, David and Solomon, evolved over hundreds of years.
dankoh
I’m not so sure that the end of Psalm 23 (“the house of the Lord”) meant specifically the Temple in Jerusalem; it is a poem, after all. More to the point is that there are speculations of an Egyptian basis for the psalm.
Steefen said
Bart D.E.Psalms are not all attributed to David, only some are; and some of the ones that are could not have been written by him, even if he did write some (the famous Psalm 23, e.g., ends with a wish to reside in the temple for ever; the temple wasn’t built in David’s day). Ecclesiastes certainly claims to be written by Solomon (without naming him) but shows clear influence from Epicurean philosophy, which did not appear until 600 years after Solomon. Song of Solomon (better: Song of Songs) contains a Persian word for “garden,” so appears to have been written in the Persian Period, 4th century BCE or so.
Description of David and Solomon by Finklestein
The reputations of the first great kings, David and Solomon, evolved over hundreds of years.
dankoh
I’m not so sure that the end of Psalm 23 (“the house of the Lord”) meant specifically the Temple in Jerusalem; it is a poem, after all. More to the point is that there are speculations of an Egyptian basis for the psalm.
Interesting.
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