Solomon Islands

Ecclesiastes is often thought of as “the book that says everything is pointless”. This is true, to some extent. The book covers almost all other the reasons people have found for living and explains, in detail, why it is not worth pursuing. Everything is a cycle and if you follow it you will only end up doing the same thing over and over again with no real sense of happiness or purpose. The one exception to this and the one thing that can give meaning and happiness to everything else is God and…

Diligence is what, through the hardships, keeps us afloat. Without grit and perseverance our faith would be battered until it was broken. That’s why there is no mystery as to why Solomon stressed the importance of attaining it. Evidenced above, diligence is important for three primary reasons. Firstly, as expressed in Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, diligence is important for avoiding poverty and providing for your physical needs.…

Megiddo is not only important as a geographical site for its historicity, but also allows one to reflect theological importance peeling back the layers of the past. Megiddo, rather than being a simple site is a multi-layered treasure. Many times this dig has had beginnings and ends. Men such as Shumacher, Rockafeller, Yadin and Adam’s have worked to uncover revealing evidence regarding people of the past. Biblically, this city of old is mentioned twelve times within the Old Testament and once…

Chapters 1-9 - A collection of poems directed to an audience of ancient Israelite culture (“my son”). These poems are based on presenting to different lifestyles. These lifestyles are lead by wisdom and foolishness. Chapters 10-29 - These chapters follow the themes of wisdom and foolishness, but not in a poetic form. These chapters include wise sayings, and some researchers believe that these chapters would have been taught in schools. Chapters 30-31 - The last two chapters contain a mixture of…

Song, as held by early rabbis and church fathers, presume that Solomon wrote the Song because of 1:1 as well as the statement in 1 Kings 5:12 (BHS)/1 Kings 4:32 (NRSV) wherein it states that he composed one thousand and five songs as wells as three thousand proverbs. The Song, part of the triad of Solomonic books together with Proverbs and Ecclesiastes has been traditionally attributed to King Solomon. R. Hiyya Rabba declares that Solomon wrote all three books at an old age and the Song was the…

the Song of Songs. The Song of Songs is also referred to as the Song of Solomon or Canticles (Whitlock, Sproul, Waltke, and Silva 1004). In Hebrew, the title can be translated as “Solomon’s Song of Songs” (Barker, Burdick 1020). The term “Song of Songs” means the greatest of all the songs (Whitlock, Sproul, Waltke, and Silva 1004). This title has multiple meanings, such as it was a song written either by, for, or about Solomon (Barker,…

The conclusion of Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon is satisfyingly ambiguous. The reader doesn’t feel the need to know whether Milkman lives or dies because the story comes full circle. The story starting with a leap and ends with one. After Robert Smith leaps into the air, Milkman goes from being the little boy who, “discovered, at four, the same thing Mr. Smith had learned earlier- that only birds and airplanes could fly-he lost interest in himself.” Milkman loses interest in himself, meaning…

The world has seen men who exhibited a great wealth of wisdom, but there has not been a person wiser than Solomon. Throughout the books of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, Solomon shares much about the benefits of being diligent and the detriment of being lazy or as described in the King James Version of the bible, a sluggard. A person who acts with diligence is one who puts forth “constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken; and is persistent in exertion of body and mind.”…

The Reign of King Solomon: Diplomatic and Economic Perceptive written by Dr. Yosef Green, as a journal article that is easy to read and understand. This article is a summary of a man before his time, whose wisdom in economics and politics was often overlooked. Solomon’s parents were King David and Bathsheba and later he became the king of both Israel and Judah. The article by Dr. Green describes King Solomon’s vision and leadership in the trade, industry and the attitude of greed that seemed…

Relationship between each of the four main covenants The following paper will show the relationship between the Abrahamic, Mosaic, Davidic and New Covenant by defining each as presented in context, and then explaining and validating how each covenant relates to each other. Abrahamic Covenant The Abrahamic Covenant is a covenant made between God and Abraham. In looking at the context, the promises of the covenant were outlined first in Gen 12:1-3, and later the covenant was confirmed in Gen 15.…