Excerpt from Lectures and Sermons Delivered on Various Occasions at the West London Synagogue of British Jews, Upper Berkeley Street, Portman Square, Vol. 3

What the Talmud (baba Bathra, fol. 15a) says about Heze kiah and others in reference to the Books of Isaiah, Proverbs, Canticles and Ecclesiastes does not transfer to Hezekiah and his assistants the authorship of the books mentioned, but the act of consigning them to writing. The Targum agrees with ibn-ezra in identifying 11'a with Solomon. Even amongst the advanced Biblical critics in our own days, the genuineness of the book is not without defenders. De Wette sums up in the following words We shall not go far wrong, if we place the composition of this book in the latter days of the Persian rule or in the commencement of the Macedonian period, when, besides Ecclesiastes, similar literary fictions were admitted.

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