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The Book of Proverbs (Hebrew: מִשְלֵי, Mišlê; Greek: Παροιμίαι; Latin: Liber Proverbiorum, "Proverbs (of Solomon)") is a book in the third section (called Ketuvim) of the Hebrew Bible traditionally ascribed to King Solomon and his students later appearing in the Christian Old Testament. [ 1 ] When translated into Greek and ...
Solomon's Temple, also known as the First Temple (Hebrew: בֵּית-הַמִּקְדָּשׁ הָרִאשׁוֹן, romanized: Bēṯ ham-Mīqdāš hā-Rīšōn, lit. 'First House of the Sanctum'), was a biblical Temple in Jerusalem believed to have existed between the 10th and 6th centuries BCE. Its description is largely based on ...
George Frideric Handel. Solomon, HWV 67, is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel.The anonymous libretto – currently thought to have been penned by the English Jewish poet/playwright Moses Mendes (d.1758) [1] – is based on the biblical stories of the wise king Solomon from the First Book of Kings and the Second Book of Chronicles, with additional material from Antiquities of the Jews by ...
Lady Wisdom, first referred to as "she" in Wisdom 6:12, dominates the middle section of the book (chapters 6-9), in which Solomon speaks. [31] She existed from the Creation, and God is her source and guide. [31] She is to be loved and desired, and kings seek her: Solomon himself preferred wisdom to wealth, health, and all other things. [32]
The Parable of the Wise and the Foolish Builders (also known as the House on the Rock), is a parable of Jesus from the Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew (7:24–27) as well as in the Sermon on the Plain in the Gospel of Luke (6:46–49). The parable illustrates the importance of building one's life on obedience to the teachings and ...
In the legend, as retold in the Jewish Encyclopedia, Solomon rides on a magic carpet over a valley of ants that speak to him. This legend is based on the Tanakh mentioning Solomon's wealth, wisdom, and dominion over all creatures. [3] The legend may also be based on the Book of Proverbs, which rabbinic Judaism traditionally ascribes to Solomon ...
The Magical Treatise of Solomon,[1][2]also known as the Hygromanteia(Greek: Ὑγρομαντεία)[a]or Solomonikê(Greek: Σολομωνική),[4][b]is a collection of late Byzantine-era grimoireswritten in medieval Greek. A pseudepigraphon, the book purports to contain Solomon's instructions to his son Rehoboamon various magical techniques ...
978-1-534-43986-3. The Deep is a 2019 fantasy book by Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes. It depicts an underwater society built by the water-breathing descendants of pregnant slaves thrown overboard from slave ships. The book was developed from a song of the same name by Clipping, an experimental hip-hop trio.