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		Legends of the Queen of Sheba are common throughout Arabia, Persia, Ethiopia and Israel.
		Sheba was known to be beautiful (despite her ankle and leg), intelligent, understanding, resourceful, and adventurous.
		Sheba's desire to see Solomon was strong enough for her to begin the 1400 mile journey, across the desert sands of Arabia, along the coast of the Red Sea, up into Moab, and over the Jordan River to Jerusalem.
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	Queen of Sheba \| Ethiopian Restaurant in Jacksonville, Florida
		Here we are told that the Queen of Sheba as a child called Makeda, lured by Solomon's fame, journeyed to Jerusalem with a great caravan of costly presents and there " communed with him of all that was in her heart ".
		Ethiopians locate Sheba in Axum, from here, according to the Kebra Nagast, she was persuaded to travel to the court of Solomon by the head of her caravans - a man much impressed by the King's wisdom and might.
		Sheba agreed, but first extracted a commitment from the King that he would not take her by force.
	www.shebaflorida.com /Sheba.html (658 words)

	The Queen of Sheba - Complete Guide to the Queen of Sheba
		The "reception" of the Queen of Sheba (her "image through time") is dealt with in Art History, Literature, Movies and Opera and Musicals.
		The relationship with Solomon was an obvious point of elaboration, spawning "spicy" folk-tales of the tricks Solomon employed to bed the queen.
		Thus, three Italian sword-and-sandal movies with nothing to do with the Queen of Sheba acquired her erotically-charged name when released in the U.S. Then there was the cat food...
	www.isidore-of-seville.com /sheba (507 words)

	Queen of Sheba Restaurant, Washington DC
		Queen of Sheba Restaurant, Washington DC We're better… We're fresher… We're tastier!
		In one story, her foot which is shaped like an ass's foot is transformed into a human foot when she steps on Solomon's glass floor; in another story, Solomon invents a depilatory in order to remove goat hair from her legs.
		Her mother was Queen Ismenie; her father, chief minister to Za Sebado, succeeded him as King.
	www.queenofshebadc.com /history.html (761 words)

	Sheba, Queen of
		When the Queen of Sheba, in her kingdom, heard of the great King Solomon, and all she was told he possessed, she decided to go herself to discover if it was true.
		The queen heard all the king's wisdom, and saw his splendor in the house that he had built, the food of his table, the setting of his servants, the attendance of his ministers in their apparel, his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up to the house of the Lord.
		In return the king gave the Queen of Sheba all she desired, whatsoever she asked for, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/s/sheba_queen.html (358 words)

	Queen of Sheba Biography (Royalty/Biblical Figure) — FactMonster.com
		Queen of Sheba was an ancient name for Abyssinia, a kingdom on the Red Sea in the vicinity of modern Ethiopia and Yemen.
		The Queen of Sheba is best known for a story in the Bible's book of Kings: at the head of a caravan of riches, she visits Israel's King Solomon to test his legendary wisdom.
		According to Ethiopian tradition the queen returned to Sheba and bore a son by Solomon, Menelik I, who was the beginning of the Ethiopian royal dynasty.
	www.factmonster.com /biography/var/queenofsheba.html (297 words)

	Queen of Sheba
		Ethiopia was then represented by a queen, who in some books is referred to as "Makeda" or "Belkis." She is better known to the world as the Queen of Sheba.
		The Queen of Sheba is said to have undertaken a long and difficult journey to Jerusalem, in order to learn of the wisdom of the great King Solomon.
		The queen of Sheba's capital was Debra Makeda, which the Queen built for herself.
	www.africawithin.com /hpi/hp7.htm (231 words)

	BBC News \| Africa \| 'Queen of Sheba' wall is no fake
		Local tradition speaks of a great queen building a vast monument of remembrance, and there is an annual pilgrimage to what is believed to be her grave.
		But scholars trace the legend of the Queen of Sheba to an Old Testament story, describing how the queen married Solomon and their son began a dynasty of rulers in Ethiopia.
		Estimates suggest the Old Testament queen would have reigned in the 10th century BC - some 2,000 years before the Eredo wall is believed to have been built.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/356850.stm (523 words)

	Queen of Sheba Restaurant, Washington DC
		Queen of Sheba Restaurant is located at 1503 9th Street, N. in the Shaw Main Street's commercial district.
		Just as the Queen's visit to Jerusalem to test Solomon's legendary wisdom bridged two cultures, so does our restaurant seek to bring together DC's Ethiopian and American communities with a menu that draws from both countries' traditions.
		We want Queen of Sheba to be a place where the community can come and enjoy our native culture, but also relax with old friends as they make new ones.
	www.queenofshebadc.com /about.html (189 words)

	SN&R > Dining > Say wat? > 04.12.07
		This proclivity made our meal at Queen Sheba both a delight and a challenge: She loved the dipping, but we were hard pressed to keep her away from the spicier items on the dinner tray.
		We washed it all down with two kinds of Ethiopian wine, both sweet: traditional honey wine and a fruity red that tasted a little odd on its own—a sweet red wine is certainly unfamiliar on the palate—but paired perfectly with the food.
		Queen Sheba also offers beers and Ethiopian tea and coffee, two drinks I'd be interested to try.
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	Queen of Sheba
		12 And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which she had brought unto the king.
		Matthew 12:42 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
		Luke 11:31 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
	www.topical-bible-studies.org /48-0054.htm (871 words)

	THE QUEEN OF SHEBA
		Here we are told that the Queen of Sheba, lured by Solomon's fame, journeyed to Jerusalem with a great caravan of costly presents and there "communed with him of all that was in her heart".
		One thing is certain: the veneration of the Queen of Sheba - and her appropriation as the spiritual ancestress of the Ethiopian people - began much earlier than the fourteenth century (when the Kebra Nagast was written); indeed, the cult of Makeda probably substantially predates the Christian era.
		As a historical figure she is thought to have lived in the period between 1000 and 950 BC and, despite a rival claim from South Arabia, the evidence is extremely strong that her capital was indeed in Abyssinia - although not necessarily in the city of Axum.
	members.tripod.com /~Abyssinia/Ark/the_queen_of_sheba.html (1779 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - SHEBA, QUEEN OF: (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Queen of Sheba, hearing of the wisdom and wealth of Solomon, visited him at Jerusalem, accompanied by a brilliant retinue.
		According to Josephus, she was the queen of Egypt and Ethiopia, and brought to Palestine the first specimens of the balsam, which grew in the Holy Land in the historian's time ("Ant." viii.
		The story of the Queen of Sheba is found in detail in the Second Targum to Esther (literal translation of the greater portion by Grünbaum, l.c.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=566&letter=S (919 words)

	Queen of Sheba - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sheba, Queen of, biblical character who also figures in Islamic tradition—where she is named Bilqis—and in Ethiopian legend, where, as Makeda, wife...
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	WIC - History of Women through Art (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Little is known of the Queen of Sheba, not even her name, other than she traveled a vast distance form her country, generally believed to have been Saba located in South West Arabia; however, the vast mines of the area were located far to the north.
		It seems reasonable that the Queen, allowing for her curiosity in Solomon himself, felt it expeditious to form a bond of friendship between the two kingdoms in order to protect her country from invasion.
		After such a long journey, the Queen must have spent enough time querying Solomon of the riddles so prevalent of the period, analyzing his wisdom and surveying the opulence of his court that she soon gained an insight to her own vulnerability.
	www.wic.org /artwork/queenof.htm (466 words)

	Sheba Foods - Queen Sheba
		Queen Sheba was not one to sit around and rest on her laurels.
		Since she was a Queen, she could have sent an ambassador to Solomon for an eyewitness report.
		Jesus commended her for her passion for truth: "The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment, for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom." Mathew 12:42.
	www.shebafoods.com /queensheba.aspx (321 words)

	The Queen of Sheba
		A foreign queen from a distant land with strange gods, she converted to Solomon and his god.
		Sheba capitulates to Solomon, woman to man, pagan to believer, fl to white.
		And the Queen of Sheba rises in judgement.
	website.lineone.net /~susandurber/Sheba.html (1087 words)

	Queen of Sheba
		For medieval scholars, who had the Queen pictured in one of the windows of Canterbury Cathedral, she was a symbol of the Christian church striving to understand Christ (represented by Solomon).
		The advert for the 1959 film Solomon and Sheba pictured a lavacious Gina Lollobrigida leaning back into the arms of her co-star (Lollobrigida on Sheba: ‘this queen is a son of a bitch’).
		But, the panel continues, it is more likely that the Queen of Sheba myth was invented by old testament writers, keen to associate the Israelite monarch with the most powerful southern Arabian kingdom.
	www.culturewars.org.uk /2002-11/sheba.htm (842 words)

	The Queen of Sheba and other love stories
		So, the two titles by which the Queen of Sheba is known in the biblical story clearly and unequivocally identify her as a queen of Egypt.
		First and foremost, whilst the queen supposedly here refers to her 'southern' boundary (ie Punt), she apparently makes no mention of her northern boundary, but instead moves on immediately to her eastern boundary, which she declares to be as far as the marshlands of Asia.
		All the queen seems to be saying is that her southern border, in Nubia, is as far distant from Thebes as her northern border, in Punt.
	www.specialtyinterests.net /sheba.html (15322 words)

	Queen of Sheba (960 B.C.)
		And when the Queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to prove him with hard questions.
		When, after six months in Israel, Queen Makeda announced to King Solomon that she was ready to return to Ethiopia, he invited her to a magnificent farewell dinner at his palace.
		Outraged by such a suggestion, the Queen protested that she was not a thief and then promised as requested.
	www.homestead.com /wysinger/sheba.html (1691 words)

	Queen of Sheba Biography (Royalty/Biblical Figure) — Infoplease.com
		Queen of Sheba was an ancient name for Abyssinia, a kingdom on the Red Sea in the vicinity of modern Ethiopia and Yemen.
		The Queen of Sheba is best known for a story in the Bible's book of Kings: at the head of a caravan of riches, she visits Israel's King Solomon to test his legendary wisdom.
		According to Ethiopian tradition the queen returned to Sheba and bore a son by Solomon, Menelik I, who was the beginning of the Ethiopian royal dynasty.
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/queenofsheba.html (296 words)

	Queen Sheba Restaurant (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On hearing of his wisdom, it is said that the Queen made the journey north to Solomon's courts "to test him with hard questions." The conference proved a success, culminating in the two monarchs bestowing wealth and good favor on each other.
		The meeting of King Solomon of Israel and the Queen of Sheba had significant repercussions upon the fate of the middle east.According to Arabic traditions, the Queen (known to Arabs as Bilqis) ruled with the heart of a woman and the head of a man and worshipped the sun and the moon.
		Despite the mystery that surrounds her it is believed that, Sheba earned respect from her people for her benevolent leadership and the wisdom she had gained and continued to gain through her commitment to learning and spiritual development.
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	Queen of Sheba
		Out of their passion was born a son, Menelik I. The Queen challenged Solomon with difficult questions and is astonished at the wisdom revealed in his answers.
		The queen departed for home, and 9 months and 5 days later she gave birth to a male child.
		Her mother was Queen Ismenie; her father, chief minister to Za Sebado, When her father died in 1005 B.C., Sheba became Queen at the age of fifteen.
	www.waltm.net /sheba.htm (530 words)

	Queen of Sheba - articles - article01 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		MAGNIFICENT gold jewels from the age of the Queen of Sheba are among treasures from the ancient civilisation of Yemen that go on display at the British Museum this week.
		St John Simpson, assistant keeper in the British Museum’s Department of Ancient Near East, said: “She is variously viewed as a figure of beauty and seduction, the propounder of riddles to King Solomon (the Old Testament), a convert to Islam (the Koran), and a precursor of the Magi (Western Christian artistic tradition).”
		Queen of Sheba: Treasures from Ancient Yemen runs from June 9 to October 13.
	www.queenofsheba.info /files/art01.html (529 words)

	Who was the Queen of Sheba? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On hearing of his wisdom, II Chronicles 9 says that the Queen made the journey north to Solomon's courts "to test him with hard questions." The conference proved a success, culminating in the two monarchs bestowing wealth and good favor on each other.
		Many historians believe her visit to Jerusalem was probably a trade mission, the Queen ensuring her kingdom's lucrative trade in frankincense and myrrh would continue unhindered by Solomon's armies.
		According to Arabic traditions, the Queen (known to Arabs as "Bilqis") ruled with the heart of a woman and the head of a man and worshipped the sun and the moon.
	www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/events/unicomm/NewsReleases/queenwho.htm (368 words)

	African Queens
		Queen Bakwa died around 1566 and the reign of Zazzua passed to her younger brother Karama.
		She was so impressed by the exciting story that the great queen decided to visit King Solomon herself.3 To understand the significance of state visits in antiquity in contrast to those of today, we must completely remove ourselves from the present place and time.
		QUEEN OF KEMET (the land of the fls) (1292-1225 B.C) Her marriage to the great Rameses II of lower Ancient Egypt is known as one of the greatest royal love affair ever.
	www.swagga.com /queen.htm (3768 words)

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