Back Аҳәынҭқарԥҳәыс Саватәи Abkhazian Koningin van Skeba Afrikaans بلقيس Arabic ملكة سبأ ARZ Reina de Saba AST Bilqeys Azerbaijani بلقیس AZB Сәба батшабикәһе Bashkir Kenigin vau Saba BAR Reyna kan Sheba BCL
Queen of Sheba | |
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.jpg) Queen of Sheba (1907) by Edward Slocombe | |
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| Religion | Religion of Solomon |
| Nationality | Sheba |
| Other names | Makeda |
The Queen of Sheba,[a] also called Bilqis[b] (Yemeni and Islamic tradition) and Makeda[c] (Ethiopian tradition), is a figure first mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. In the original story, she brings a caravan of valuable gifts for the Israelite King Solomon. This account has undergone extensive Jewish, Islamic, Yemenite[1][2] and Ethiopian elaborations, and it has become the subject of one of the most widespread and fertile cycles of legends in Asia and Africa.[3]
Modern historians and archaeologists identify Sheba as the ancient South Arabian kingdom of Saba' that existed in modern-day Yemen, although no trace of the queen herself has been found.[4][5] The queen's existence is disputed among some historians.[6]
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- ^ "Echoes of a Legendary Queen". Harvard Divinity Bulletin. Retrieved 2022-06-29.
- ^ "Queen of Sheba - Treasures from Ancient Yemen". the Guardian. 2002-05-25. Retrieved 2022-06-29.
- ^ E. Ullendorff (1991), "BILḲĪS", The Encyclopaedia of Islam, vol. 2 (2nd ed.), Brill, pp. 1219–1220
- ^ "Collection | British Museum". www.britishmuseum.org. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
- ^ Israel Finkelstein,David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots' of the Western Tradition p.167
- ^ National Geographic, issue mysteries of history, September 2018, p.45.
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