a geographical, but a
proper name, and
from
Josephus Flavius
we learn that she was
the
ruler of Egypt and Ethiopia, as
Queen Hatshepsut
was.33) Spelling her
name in the ancient Hebrew
alphabet yields
the Queen of Sheba (Malkat Sheba
=
Malkah Hatsheba) by elision of the
letter "h"
and faulty
separation of words.34) Her identity
with
the Egyptian wife of King Solomon is
proven
by the fact that
she returned home with
her
enormous dowry after a divorce
by consent, for
she did not
give birth to a son.35)
––––––––––––––––
33) Cf. Josephus Flavius, Jewish
Antiquities, VIII, 6; and
Immanuel
Velikovsky (N. 27) pp.
118 and 151, who explains
her
Ethiopian name
Makeda from
Hatshepsut's prenomen Maatkare.
34) Her Hebrew name Sheba may also
be influenced by the
triliteral hieroglyph
Sheps "noble seated on
chair" in Hatshepsut
reminding
of Hebrew Shebet
"sit" and Shabat
"rest".
35) If she had had a
son, the Bible would surely
have
mentioned him as
King Solomon's successor,
but it is known
that
Queen Hatshepsut had only
a daughter, see below Note
47.
Her "gifts" to King
Solomon, consisting of 120
talents of gold
(1. Kings
10, 10 and 2. Chronicles
9, 9), constituted her
dowry.
Otherwise, it would not
make sense why she arrived
with a load
of gold
reminiscent of the
reserves of an ancient
Fort Knox,
and even less
why she took back "what
she had brought to the
king"
(2. Chronicles 9,
12), which is a
correct emendation of
1. Kings
10, 13: Asher Hevi’ah
(Natenah) El (be-Yad)
ha-Melekh
(Shelomoh); cf.
ha-Ba’ be-Yado "what
came into his hand"
in
Genesis 32, 14, and
the manus-marriage in Roman
Law with its
in
manum convenire
(Gaius, Institutes, I,
108–113). |
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