2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Israelite king who built the First Temple in Jerusalem, whose wisdom became proverbial, who wrote (or was attributed with) Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs — whose reign represented the height of the united Israelite kingdom — and whose apostasy (foreign wives and foreign gods) is presented as the cause of the subsequent division.
Biblical king of Israel — son of David — who built the First Temple in Jerusalem, was famous for his wisdom (the judgment of Solomon), wrote (or is attributed with) Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Solomon, and whose reign represented the peak of the united Israelite monarchy.