Abstract
Qohelet revels in describing the oppositeness of the wise and fool (), urging the young to make a choice between these opposites. How should this advice be understood? Obviously, the derogatory terms , , and , used in the Book of Qohelet with reference to a person acting unlike a , cannot refer to mental deficiency, which is irreversible. It is suggested that a useful approach would be to understand the broad notions of “foolishness” and “wisdom” in the narrower confines of “trial-and-error problem-solving” on the one hand, versus “insight-and-theory problem-solving” on the other. All the juxtapositions of “foolishness” and “wisdom” in the Book of Qohelet can be cogently understood assuming that the is a “contemplator, meditatist” and the is an “operator, activist. ”
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