Endnote 10 – Did Ecclesiastes Copy Gilgamesh?
Joan Goodnick Westenholz was the first to draw the parallel (review of The Sargon Legend, by Brian Lewis, in The Journal of Near Eastern Studies 43 [1984], pp. 73–79, esp. 77). She was followed by Longman, Fictional Akkadian Autobiography, pp. 120–123; and Choong Leong Seow, “Qohelet’s Autobiography,” in Fortunate the Eyes That See: Essays in Honor of David Noel Freedman in Celebration of His Seventieth Birthday, ed. Astrid B. Beck et al. (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1995), pp. 275–287; Seow, Ecclesiastes: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary, Anchor Bible 18C (New York: Doubleday, 1997), esp. pp. 60–65.