The prayer of Solomon shows us that the king is not stuck in any type of chronological snobbery. He prays for himself, for the people under his care, but also for the posterity to come.

On the surface, it appears to be the melancholic musings of an old and weary King Solomon, who looks back on his life and sees it as futile. “Vanity of vanities,” he declares.

In 1934, an archaeologist was digging in the Timna Valley in the sweltering heat of southern Israel. He was trying to prove that King Solomon’s Mines was no mere 19th-century fantasy adventure ...

Until his 70th birthday, Moriah had never been preoccupied with the passing of time or his own mortality. But as he entered his eighth decade, the Book of Ecclesiastes took on new meaning for him.

King Solomon asks for a sword, resolving to settle the matter by cutting the baby in half so each can possess half the child. The second woman agrees to this judgment; the first woman says that ...