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For a description of the genre, see Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, vol. 1, pp. 5–7.

Joseph Blenkinsopp, Safe, Priest, Prophet: Religious and Intellectual Leadership in Ancient Israel (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1995), p. 58.

Ankhsheshonq 22.5, in Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, vol. 3, p. 176.

Ankhsheshonq 32.18, in Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, vol. 3, p. 211; cf. 31.1, p. 209.

Papyrus Insinger 20.6, in Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, vol. 3, p. 175.

Harper’s Song 17.2–3, in Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, vol. 3, p. 198.

Translation by Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, 3 vols. (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1973), vol. 1, pp. 196–197.

For literature on the correspondences between Qoheleth and Gilgamesh see, in addition to the studies mentioned above, Jean de Savignac, “La sagesse de Qohéléth et l’épopée de Gilgamesh,” Vetus Testamentum 28 (1978), pp. 318–323; Bruce W. Jones, From Gilgamesh to Qoheleth, in The Bible in the Light of Cuneiform Literature: Scripture in Context III (Ancient Near Eastern Texts and Studies, vol. 8), ed. William W. Hallo et al.; Lewiston etc.: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1990), pp. 349–379.