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A small Cave 4 Hebrew fragment preserves Ecclesiastes 1:10–14, including Qohelet's reflection on memory, inquiry, and life under heaven.
A mid-second-century BC parchment copy preserves Ecclesiastes 5:13–7:20, combining remarkably early material evidence with the book’s characteristically late Hebrew spellings and grammar.
Six red-ink letters on a jar fragment excavated in Lachish's twelfth-century BC Level VI use a standardized Linear Canaanite alphabet and may preserve a name containing the root š-l-ṭ, 'rule.' The find revises alphabetic and lexical history but cannot date biblical books by itself.