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	Solomon
		The biblical account of Solomon derives from the “Succession Narrative” in Second Samuel and First and Second Kings; Temple archives; and various folk-tales, but what the Bible says about the glory of his reign is impossible to confirm from the archaeological record.
		Solomon's reign was marked by foreign alliances (notably with Egypt and Phoenicia) and the greatest extension of Israel's territory in biblical times.
		Wisdom of Solomon - Wisdom of Solomon or Wisdom,early Jewish book included in the Septuagint and the Vulgate but not in...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0845871.html (235 words)

	Encyclopedic Theosophical Glossary, Sis-Som
		If the exoteric literal account in the Bible is accepted, Solomon in his later years showed himself as very far from wise, indulging in licentiousness and idolatry (1 Kings 11); further, he began his reign with the murder of Adonijah, Joab, and Shimei and his last recorded act was that he sought to kill Jereboam.
		Solomon, King of Israel and Judah shelomoh (Hebrew) [from shalom prosperous cf Arab zuleima, Greek Salomon Latin solomo, genitive solomonis, French Salomon ] Peace, prosperity; according to orthodox Biblical chronology, he lived 993-953 BC, the youngest son of David whom he succeeded through the influence of his mother Bathsheba and the prophet Nathan.
		In Freemasonry, King Solomon is especially honored as the builder of the Temple and as the first of the Three Grand Masters -- the other two being Hiram, King of Tyre, and Hiram Abif -- all of whom were concerned with the building of the Temple.
	www.theosociety.org /pasadena/etgloss/sis-som.htm (235 words)

	The Wise King Ahasuerus
		Rabbi Solomon Astruc argued that in the closing verses of the Megillah, when "king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea," he was in fact following Mordecai's advice in levying a tax on the Jews, as a way of underscore their fiscal benefits to the realm.
		This irrational desire to defend Ahasuerus, to a degree that is unwarranted by the Biblical account or its Midrashic interpretations, seems to accurately reflect the attitudes of the Jews towards their own monarchs.
		Under the prevailing rules of medieval politics, the Jews were the "property" of the king, or of the royal treasury, and subject to the direct protection of the Crown.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~elsegal/Shokel/MHCP00_WiseAhasuerus.html (235 words)

	The Monarchy
		While the author of II Samuel, the biblical account of Solomon's reign, portrays Solomon as a good king it's clear from the account that the Hebrews living under him did not think so.
		Groaning under the oppression of Solomon, the Hebrews became passionately discontent, so that upon Solomon's death (around 926 to 922 BC) the ten northern tribes revolted.
		Unwilling to be ruled by Solomon's son, Rehoboam, these tribes successfully seceded and established their own kingdom.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/History/monarchy.html (1261 words)

	Reading Lists - What a Character! Biographical Fiction
		A tale based on the biblical story of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba follows the queen's search for an heir; the lessons Solomon and she learned about truth, love, and duty; and her daughter's efforts to achieve a position of power.
		A fictional portrait of the last empress of China follows Orchid, a beautiful teenager from an aristocratic family, who is chosen to become a low-ranking concubine of the emperor and rises to a position of power in the Chinese court.
		A fictional account of a week in the life of sixty-one-year-old Sarah Bernhardt finds her moving her latest production to a new location and struggling with age and illness, challenges that are explored by news reporter Vince Baker.
	www.mesalibrary.org /read_next/character.htm (766 words)

	Phoenician Government and Politics
		The Biblical account of a growing friendship between King Hiram of Tyre and the Kings of Israel was an introductory phase for a more important events which included military alliances and cooperation not only during King David's time but also during the reign of King Solomon.
		Associated with the king was a council of elders; such at least was the case at Byblos, Sidon, and perhaps Tyre.
		During Nebuchadrezzar II's reign (605-562 BC) a republic took the place of the monarchy at Tyre, and the government was administered by a succession of suffetes (judges); they held office for short terms, and in one instance two ruled together for six years.
	www.phoenicia.org /govern.html (766 words)

	A New Chronology
		Also in I Kings 6:1, the time from the Exodus to the building of the temple by Solomon in 966 BC is recorded as 480 years, complementing the Judges date.
		·"The sacking of Thebes in 664 BC by the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal as punishment for a revolt led by Pharaoh Taharka of the 25th Dynasty of kings in Egypt.
		"According to the generally accepted account, the fall of the central empire [of the Hittites] is dated at the end of the 13th century BC and was followed by a Dark Age of 400 years, a period from which few records exist.
	www.mystae.com /restricted/streams/thera/newchrono.html (766 words)

	A New Chronology
		Also in I Kings 6:1, the time from the Exodus to the building of the temple by Solomon in 966 BC is recorded as 480 years, complementing the Judges date.
		·"The sacking of Thebes in 664 BC by the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal as punishment for a revolt led by Pharaoh Taharka of the 25th Dynasty of kings in Egypt.
		"According to the generally accepted account, the fall of the central empire [of the Hittites] is dated at the end of the 13th century BC and was followed by a Dark Age of 400 years, a period from which few records exist.
	www.mystae.com /restricted/streams/thera/newchrono.html (2823 words)

	A New Chronology
		Also in I Kings 6:1, the time from the Exodus to the building of the temple by Solomon in 966 BC is recorded as 480 years, complementing the Judges date.
		·"The sacking of Thebes in 664 BC by the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal as punishment for a revolt led by Pharaoh Taharka of the 25th Dynasty of kings in Egypt.
		"According to the generally accepted account, the fall of the central empire [of the Hittites] is dated at the end of the 13th century BC and was followed by a Dark Age of 400 years, a period from which few records exist.
	www.mystae.com /restricted/streams/thera/newchrono.html (2823 words)

	A New Chronology
		Also in I Kings 6:1, the time from the Exodus to the building of the temple by Solomon in 966 BC is recorded as 480 years, complementing the Judges date.
		·"The sacking of Thebes in 664 BC by the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal as punishment for a revolt led by Pharaoh Taharka of the 25th Dynasty of kings in Egypt.
		"According to the generally accepted account, the fall of the central empire [of the Hittites] is dated at the end of the 13th century BC and was followed by a Dark Age of 400 years, a period from which few records exist.
	www.mystae.com /restricted/streams/thera/newchrono.html (2823 words)

	A New Chronology
		Also in I Kings 6:1, the time from the Exodus to the building of the temple by Solomon in 966 BC is recorded as 480 years, complementing the Judges date.
		·"The sacking of Thebes in 664 BC by the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal as punishment for a revolt led by Pharaoh Taharka of the 25th Dynasty of kings in Egypt.
		"According to the generally accepted account, the fall of the central empire [of the Hittites] is dated at the end of the 13th century BC and was followed by a Dark Age of 400 years, a period from which few records exist.
	www.mystae.com /restricted/streams/thera/newchrono.html (2823 words)

	A New Chronology
		Also in I Kings 6:1, the time from the Exodus to the building of the temple by Solomon in 966 BC is recorded as 480 years, complementing the Judges date.
		·"The sacking of Thebes in 664 BC by the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal as punishment for a revolt led by Pharaoh Taharka of the 25th Dynasty of kings in Egypt.
		"According to the generally accepted account, the fall of the central empire [of the Hittites] is dated at the end of the 13th century BC and was followed by a Dark Age of 400 years, a period from which few records exist.
	www.mystae.com /restricted/streams/thera/newchrono.html (2823 words)

	House of David Inscription : Temple Ostracon : by Laurence Gardner
		Benjamin Mazar of the Hebrew University, with field architect Dr. Leen Ritmeyer, who wrote up the account for the Biblical Archaeology Society.
		Archaeologists, working from the middle 1800s, established the foundations of the second and third Temples (those of Zerubbabel and Herod), but it was not until 1973 that a concerted attempt was made to reveal the first House of the Lord - the Temple of King Solomon.
		With the aid of records from the Greek historian, Strabo (64 BC - AD 21), the team worked on site for five years, making many new discoveries, among which (at the lowest course level) were the original footings of King Solomon's Temple, with masonry quite different to that of the later periods.
	www.graal.co.uk /houseofdavid.html (2823 words)

	Amazon.com: The King David Report (European Classics): Books: Stefan Heym
		Being the account of the life and times of the Biblical King David, this historical novel, masquerading as an official report from King Solomon's designated historical interpreters, shines a brilliant light on the Biblical David as well as on the process by which fact becomes "historical truth".
		Imagining the court of King Solomon, a somewhat small-minded, self-seeking, albeit reasonably clever, Near Eastern potentate, Stefan Heym here conjures for us a picture of a reluctant scholar sucked into the maelstrom of politics and revisionism by which governing bureaucracies have historically secured their rule.
		Heym's intention is to extrapolate the story of King David to events taken place in our recent history, something that comes out quite easily for the reader.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0810115379?v=glance (1732 words)

	Jewish and Israel News from New York - The Jewish Week
		Contemporary scholars hold that Kohelet was written long after King Solomon’s reign by someone who wanted to be seen as a wise king in the tradition of Solomon, and was probably himself a wealthy and aristocratic man.
		Kohelet, which we read in synagogue on the Shabbat of Sukkot, is the biblical book that perhaps best expresses thoughts most of us cope with at various times, and especially during the holidays just past.
		As the story of Creation unfolds, God declares each new part of the created world “good.” That world is so good, later sages said, that we will be called to account one day for the pleasures in it that were permitted to us but we did not enjoy.
	www.thejewishweek.com /top/editletcontent.php3?artid=3732 (1732 words)

	Kerux...The Online Journal of Biblical Theology
		The correlation of temple building and the establishment of dynasty is indicated by the incorporation of the account of the construction of Solomon's palace in the story of the building of the temple (1 Kings 7).
		In the extrabiblical accounts of temple building in the ancient world the same situation obtains: it is the king who plays the main role.
		The ark's temple identity is corroborated by the reflection of its architecture in the Mosaic tabernacle and the Solomonic temple.
	www.kerux.com /documents/KeruxV9N2A1.asp (1732 words)

	Glossary
		From the perspective of biblical Israel, the events associated with the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II that had the most lasting effect upon their destiny were the destruction of Judea, the conquest of Jerusalem, the setting to the torch of the Temple of Solomon, and the exile to Babylonia (597-581 b.c.).
		Nebuchadnezzar II was the most powerful and longest reigning king of the Neo-Babylonian (625-539 b.c.) period.
		Daniel 1-5 represents an account of Jews in the court of Nebuchadnezzar, along with apocalyptic visions.
	www.bibletexts.com /glossary/nebuchadnezzar.htm (892 words)

	A judgment about Biblical King Solomon / Evidence supports Hebrew kingdoms in biblical times
		C14 dating of grain and olive pits at Tel Rehov supports the Scriptual existance of these archaeological structures at the time of Biblical King Solomon, and dating of the Siloam tunnel confirms the Biblical time frame, if the C14 dating confirms the Scriptures it then follows that the Scriptures affirm the C14 dating methods utilized.
		In the past, Finkelstein has accused Mazar of harboring a "sentimental, somewhat romantic approach to the archaeology of the Iron Age," according to an earlier account in Science.
	www.accuracyingenesis.com /solomon.html (1569 words)

	Catholic World Report - April 2002
		The Kebra Nagast has its beginnings in the Biblical account of the meeting between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, whose realm covered what is now Ethiopia.
		That tradition is recorded in an epic tale of the 14th century, the Kebra Nagast ( Glory of the Kings), which was composed by Orthodox monks to honor King Amda Seyon.
	www.catholic.net /rcc/Periodicals/Igpress/2002-04/ethiopia.html (1569 words)

	Is It the Palace of King David?
		It was protected on the south by the citadel and the old city, and on the east and west by the deep slopes of the Kidron and Tyropoeon valleys." Later, 1Samuel 5:9 tells of the construction of formidable fortifications which were completed to the north by David's heir, King Solomon.
		Phoenician masons were employed, leaving their mark on the decorative style of the time, a further validation of the biblical account.
		Benjamin Mazar, has unveiled convincing evidence that pinpoints the exact location of this most important biblical structure.
	www.leaderu.com /theology/palacedavid.html (1569 words)

	The Jehoash Inscription: An Evaluative Summary - By Stuart A. Irvine and Charles David Isbell
		While this list of repaired structures adds little of importance to the historical picture of Jehoash, the relevance of the inscription is linked to the broader question about the existence of early inscriptional accounts that may have served as sources for the biblical histories of monarchical Israel and Judah.
		The author of the Jehoash Inscription may have been influenced by the narrative of the dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem found in 1 Kings 8:55, which comments that Solomon "blessed the entire assembly of Israel."
		The Jehoash Inscription receives its name from the fact that it is attributed to the late ninth-century BCE King Jehoash of Judah.
	www.bibleinterp.com /articles/Irvine_Isbell_Jehoash.htm (2707 words)

	The Jehoash Inscription: An Evaluative Summary - By Stuart A. Irvine and Charles David Isbell
		While this list of repaired structures adds little of importance to the historical picture of Jehoash, the relevance of the inscription is linked to the broader question about the existence of early inscriptional accounts that may have served as sources for the biblical histories of monarchical Israel and Judah.
		The author of the Jehoash Inscription may have been influenced by the narrative of the dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem found in 1 Kings 8:55, which comments that Solomon "blessed the entire assembly of Israel."
		The Jehoash Inscription receives its name from the fact that it is attributed to the late ninth-century BCE King Jehoash of Judah.
	www.bibleinterp.com /articles/Irvine_Isbell_Jehoash.htm (2707 words)

	The Burning of Hazor
		The biblical account of the conquest of Hazor reads, "And Joshua turned back at that time and took Hazor and smote its king with the sword, for Hazor formerly was the head of all those kingdoms.
		It is also mentioned in connection with the battles of the Israelites led by Deborah and Barak against "Yabin, king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor" (Judges 4-5) and is described as one of the Canaanite cities rebuilt as royal administrative centers by Solomon (1 Kings 9:15).
		Yigael Yadin's expeditions to Hazor, from 1955 to 1958 and again in 1968, uncovered Middle and Late Bronze Age (2000-1200 B.C.) temples, palaces, and fortifications of the city.
	www.archaeology.org /~archaeol/9805/abstracts/hazor.html (2707 words)

	The Wise King Ahasuerus
		This irrational desire to defend Ahasuerus, to a degree that is unwarranted by the Biblical account or its Midrashic interpretations, seems to accurately reflect the attitudes of the Jews towards their own monarchs.
		Rabbi Solomon Astruc argued that in the closing verses of the Megillah, when "king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea," he was in fact following Mordecai's advice in levying a tax on the Jews, as a way of underscore their fiscal benefits to the realm.
		Not surprisingly, their interpretations of the Biblical text often reveal a great deal of their own contemporary concerns.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~elsegal/Shokel/MHCP00_WiseAhasuerus.html (1157 words)

	History of THE JEWS
		In his northern kingdom Jeroboam allows the worship of Yahweh to become associated with a local Canaanite bull cult (the 'golden calf'), a blasphemy considered so heinous in the biblical account that all the disasters in store for the ten northern tribes seem richly deserved.
		Solomon, inheriting a stable and united kingdom of Israel, is free to indulge in the arts of peacetime.
		North of Jerusalem, in the kingdom of Israel, a surviving son of Saul struggles to maintain his inheritance against the Philistine threat.
	www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?groupid=399&HistoryID=aa42 (1743 words)

	Eupolemus and Pseudo-Eupolemus
		Eupolemus, a Jewish ambassador from Palestine, provides a Graeco-Jewish perspective on the role of Moses and the contributions of King David and Solomon to the Temple cult.
		Evidence shows this author to be a Samaritan who combined not only Greek tradition but also Babylonian mythology with biblical narrative to produce a historical account of the Hebrew traditions.
		The study of Eupolemus and Pseudo-Eupolemus is an exercise of discovery--uncovering two of the first Hellenized works on Jewish history.
	www.st-andrews.ac.uk /~www_sd/eupolemus.html (309 words)

	Museums: Treasures from Saba
		The Queen of Sheba has captured the imagination of storytellers and artists since the biblical account of her visit to King Solomon in Jerusalem, where she arrived with a huge retinue bearing gifts of incense, gold, and jewels.
		Sabaean artifacts: a cast-bronze head from the second century A.D. and an alabaster incense burner with the image of a rider and camel from the third century A.D. (Reproduced by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum) [LARGER IMAGE]
		Saba's wealth also came from the production of frankincense; a third-century A.D. alabaster incense burner showing a camel and rider underscores its status in antiquity as an indispensable medicinal and aromatic ingredient.
	www.archaeology.org /0501/reviews/saba.html (309 words)

	Is It the Palace of King David?
		It was protected on the south by the citadel and the old city, and on the east and west by the deep slopes of the Kidron and Tyropoeon valleys." Later, 1Samuel 5:9 tells of the construction of formidable fortifications which were completed to the north by David's heir, King Solomon.
		Phoenician masons were employed, leaving their mark on the decorative style of the time, a further validation of the biblical account.
		Eilat Mazar, the granddaughter of the renowned archaeologist, the late Prof.
	www.leaderu.com /theology/palacedavid.html (309 words)

	Ancient Ships in art history: The navy of King Solomon and Israel
		The Bible which is consedered by many to be the primary record of Jewish history clearly records the relationships in ancient history that Solomon's Kingdom had with the seafaring nations of the Eastern Mediterranean.
		In addition to having a navy Solomon is credited with being a shrewd diplomat with alliances to the kingdoms of Sheba, Egypt, and Phoenicia all of which were known to have had extensive seafaring capabilities at this time in ancient history.
		This was the same historic time frame in which the Hebrews Colonized the Levant according to the Biblical account.
	www.artsales.com /ARTistory/Ancient_Ships/11_solomons_navy.html (1981 words)

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