A SET OF SHARED PROVERBS FROM THE CEDAR FOREST TABLET OF THE STANDARD BABYLONIAN GILGAMESH AND THE BOOK OF QOHELET 4, 9-12

The article reconstructs lines 75–80 of Tablet V of the Standard Babylonian version of the Epic of Gilgameš. It offers a re-edition of all the extant sources and uses as a recourse verses 9–12 in Chapter 4 of the Book of Qohelet (Ecclesiastes). It then demonstrates how close the passage in the Epic of Gilgameš and the verses of the Book of Qohelet are. The article concludes with a brief discussion about the relationship between the Epic of Gilgameš and the Book of Qohelet.