of Egypt with the
so-called Queen of Sheba,
who
visited King Solomon of Israel, leaving
open
her relation to his wife.30)
§
11. The so-called Queen of Sheba
might
be the visiting sister of
King Solomon's Egyptian
wife, as
Velikovsky incidentally assumed,
– or
even be identical
with her.31)
The namelessness
of both is
incompatible with the historicity
of
the biblical account,
which is turned into
an
Arabian fairy-tale by Christian
and Muslim inter-
pretation.32) In
Jewish tradition Sheba
is not
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30) See Immanuel Velikovsky (N.
27) chapter 3, who fails
to
analyze the family
relationship of both.
Since they were
members
of the same royal family,
they must have known
each
other, cf. Ed Metzler,
Ten Commandments (N. 6)
Note 11, where
I
first observed the
identity of King
Solomon's Egyptian wife
with
Queen Hatshepsut of
Egypt.
31) In an incidental remark
Immanuel Velikovsky, Peoples
of
the Sea (German 1978)
p. 129, expresses the view
that both
were sisters without
giving reasons for it.
32) Cf. James B.
Pritchard (ed.), Solomon and
Sheba
(London 1974),
Introduction pp.
7 and 12,
who calls her
"a
nameless queen of
the Arabian kingdom of
Sheba", whose
namelessness "makes
appropriate the designation
of this story
as a
fanciful oriental legend". However, her
apparent namelessness
is non-existent,
if Sheba is
not a geographical
term, but her
proper
name, cf. Lou
H. Silberman, The
Queen of Sheba
in
Judaic Tradition
(Ibid. p. 67). In
this case, she is none
other
than King Solomon's
Egyptian wife, whose introduction
by name
must be expected
next after the preceding
chapters in the Bible.
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