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Edward Lipinski suggests that the story is an example of "king's bench tales", a subgenre of the wisdom literature to which he finds parallels in Sumerian literature. [14] Scholars have pointed out that the story resembles the modern detective story genre. Both king Solomon and the reader are confronted with some kind of a juridical-detective ...
Solomon (/ ˈ s ɒ l ə m ə n /), [a] also called Jedidiah, [b] was the fourth monarch of the Kingdom of Israel and Judah, according to the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament. [4] [5] The successor of his father David, he is described as having been the penultimate ruler of all Twelve Tribes of Israel under an amalgamated Israel and Judah.
'pleasant; lovely') was one of the 700 wives and 300 concubines of King Solomon and mother of his heir, Rehoboam, according to both 1 Kings 14:21–31, and 2 Chronicles 12:13 in the Hebrew Bible. [1] She was an Ammonite, and, as such, one of only two of all the Queen Mothers of Israel or Judah who was a foreigner (the other being Jezebel). [2]
In the branch of literary analysis that examines the Bible, called higher criticism, the story of Solomon falling into idolatry by the influence of Pharaoh's daughter and his other foreign wives is "customarily seen as the handiwork of the 'deuteronomistic historian(s)'", who are held to have written, compiled, or edited texts to legitimize the ...
2015 The life of King David, as narrated by the prophet Nathan, and including the story of Uriah and Bathsheba, is the subject of the novel The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks. [39] 2015 Angela Hunt's Bathsheba: Reluctant Beauty (A Dangerous Beauty Novel) 2018 Jenifer Jennings's A Stolen Wife; 2019 Francine River's A Lineage of Grace
Ever since Matt Gaetz resigned from the House — and subsequently withdrew his name from co n sideration to be President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general — questions have ...
The Comfort & Joy collection features three new colors: Gilded Pomegranate (red), Gilded Sugar (creamy light pink) and Gilded Celadon (light green), each piece featuring a matching lid and — ooh ...
It means Freiburg will have to keep waiting for its first Bundesliga win at Union Berlin after the sides drew 0-0 in the capital on Friday. Frederik Rönnow saved Vincenzo Grifo’s early penalty ...