longarekel- well, that was more than I expected 🙂
speaking of which, at the risk of being personal, do you wear one? (a longarekel, I mean) 🙂 just curious
2) Unless I’m really missing something here, I don’t see how it could be anyone but Shlomo, as it says in the first passuk. If you mean who WROTE IT DOWN, then Chizkiyahu and his students, I believe.