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God said to Solomon, "Indeed I give you a wise and discerning mind; no one like you has been before you and no one like you shall arise after you".]]
God said to Solomon, "Indeed I give you a wise and [[Discernment|discerning]] mind; no one like you has been before you and no one like you shall arise after you".]]
The book of Ecclesiastes is popularly held to have been written by [[Solomon]] as supported by Ecc 1:1, 1:12, 1:16, 2:4-9, 7:26-29, 12:9. This is especially true when crossreferencing I Kings 2:9, 3:12, 4:29-34, 5:12, 10:1-8. Others note that Ecc 4:1-2, 5:8-9, 8:2-4, 10:20 where the tone is less that of a monarch could point to another, later author<ref>The NIV Study Bible (1985), Zondervan Press, Pg. 991</ref>, so treating 1:12's "I [..] was king over Israel" not as a literal claim of authorship but as a literary device to place the poetical author in the standpoint of the wise king. In the traditional view that Solomon wrote it, the original work would have been composed in the 10th century B.C., although later editing may have been possible.
The book of Ecclesiastes is popularly held to have been written by [[Solomon]] as supported by Ecc 1:1, 1:12, 1:16, 2:4-9, 7:26-29, 12:9. This is especially true when crossreferencing I Kings 2:9, 3:12, 4:29-34, 5:12, 10:1-8. Others note that Ecc 4:1-2, 5:8-9, 8:2-4, 10:20 where the tone is less that of a monarch could point to another, later author<ref>The NIV Study Bible (1985), Zondervan Press, Pg. 991</ref>, so treating 1:12's "I [..] was king over Israel" not as a literal claim of authorship but as a literary device to place the poetical author in the standpoint of the wise king. In the traditional view that Solomon wrote it, the original work would have been composed in the 10th century B.C., although later editing may have been possible.