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.
Represents the biblical ideal of practical wisdom — sophia in Hebrew — and Ecclesiastes' meditation on the vanity of all human striving ('Vanity of vanities, all is vanity') is the most sophisticated philosophical skepticism in the Hebrew Bible.
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