1.40 Puzzles of the United Kingdom of the Hebrews

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 693 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Solomon, it is said, wrote books of Wisdom, Psalms, Odes, and a Testament. I discuss these, and then begin my survey of what modern scholarship has to say about the united kingdom. I start with Saul, and wonder why he is treated so differently in the books of Samuel and Chronicles.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Gary Stevens, and welcome to the History in the Bible podcast.
0:24.8	All the history, in all the books, in all the Bibles.
0:44.8	Episode 1.40, Questioning the United Kingdom In the last episode of the history in the Bible, I discussed two of the biblical books attributed to Solomon, Proverbs and the Song of Songs.
0:56.1	Solomon was credited with five others, Ecclesiastes, the wisdom of Solomon, the Psalms
1:03.1	of Solomon, the Odes of Solomon, and the Testament of Solomon. Some made it into the various
1:09.5	Bibles. Some did not.
1:12.8	In this episode, I'll briefly discuss those other five books and then launch into a discussion
1:19.7	about what modern scholarship has to say about the entire United Kingdom, from Saul to Solomon.
1:30.1	Let's start with the third of the books,
1:36.8	attributed to the great king, Ecclesiastes. This is the most radical book in the Old Testament.
1:44.3	It appears in all Bibles. The English title derives from the Greek, a member of an assembly.
1:51.8	It is known in Hebrew as Kohelet, the collector of sayings, or perhaps sage or preacher.
1:55.5	It is one of the shortest books in the Old Testament.
2:00.2	Thanks to the King James Version, its opening words are famous.
2:03.9	Ecclesiastes 1-1.
2:08.3	The words of the preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
2:11.7	Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher.
2:13.4	Vanity of vanities.
2:15.4	All is vanity.
2:35.7	What prophet have a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun for in much wisdom is much grief and he that increaseth knowledge increasesth sorrow end quote in the more prosaic translation of the Jerusalem study Bible, quote,
2:40.3	The words of Kohelet, son of David, king in Jerusalem.
2:43.2	Utter futility, said Kohelet.
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