The Riddle of Solomon
The Riddle of Solomon

Author: D J Niko

Publisher: Medallion Media Group

Published: 2013-07-01

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 1605425923

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Cambridge archaeologist Sarah Weston and anthropologist Daniel Madigan team up for another expedition and adventure in this second book in the Sarah Weston Chronicles. While working on the Qaryat al-Fau archaeological site in Saudi Arabia, the pair uncovers a mysterious ancient scroll composed as a riddle. As they attempt to date and decipher the scroll, a flurry of ills befalls their expedition and the scroll is stolen. A trail of clues leads to India, Jerusalem, and the Judean wilderness, where the two discover the scroll was written by the enigmatic King Solomon as a map to an ancient manuscript. Meanwhile a privileged young Briton, Trent Sacks, has invested years and a fortune looking for his manuscript. Believing he is the last descendant of the House of David in the line of Solomon, Sacks will do whatever it takes to amass the ancient relics which will prove he is the Jewish Messiah. Leaving a string of murders in his wake, Sacks vows to crush Sarah and Daniel for challenging his quest. Journeying through the worlds of the occult, corporate greed, geopolitical conflict, Judaic mysticism, and biblical archaeology, Sarah and Daniel race to uncover the powerful ancient message that could have an explosive impact on modern Israel.

Solomon Says
Solomon Says

Author: Mark Horne

Publisher:

Published: 2020-03-09

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9781733535670

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If you don't learn to govern yourself, you will be governed by others, and your own impulses will be the reins they use to lead you. That's how Mark Horne's new book, Solomon Says: Directives for Young Men, captures Solomon's warning to young men in the Book of Proverbs, advising them how to avoid sinful lifestyles and seek the wisdom of kings.

Solomon and the Ant
Solomon and the Ant

Author:

Publisher: Boyds Mills Press

Published: 2014-09-12

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 1629792918

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A treasure trove of forty-three religious, wisdom, riddle, and trickster Jewish folktales that have been told near the hearth, at the table, and in the synagogue for centuries. Sheldon Oberman, a master storyteller, retells the tales with simplicity and grace, making them perfect for performing and reading aloud. Peninnah Schram, herself an acclaimed storyteller and folklorist, provides lively notes and commentary that examine the meaning of each tale and its place in history.

The Age of Solomon
The Age of Solomon

Author: Lowell K Handy

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-08-14

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 9004667830

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The figure of King Solomon is central to our understanding of the history of Israel and Judah. This volume of collected articles brings the reader up-to-date with the latest scholarship in the field. The work consists of twenty-four chapters and provides important studies in the historical approach to Solomon and to 10th century B.C.E. Judah and Israel with archaeological surveys of the neighboring regions, sociological surveys, and literary readings of the biblical texts. With suggestions for further research and indexes.

Solomon and Marcolf
Solomon and Marcolf

Author: Jan M. Ziolkowski

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13:

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In this work, Ziolkowski pits wise Solomon against a wily peasant named Marcolf. While it is widely known by name, until now it has not been translated into any modern language. This volume offers an introduction, followed by the Latin and English, detailed commentary, and reproductions of woodcut illustrations from the 1514 edition.

King Solomon and the Bee
King Solomon and the Bee

Author: Dalia Hardof Renberg

Publisher: Crocodile Books

Published: 2010-01-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781566568159

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One day, when King Solomon was resting in his garden, a small bee accidentally stung the great king on his nose. Furious, the king summoned all possible offenders and demanded to know who had dared to sting him. A small bee came forward and, as it pleaded for the king’s forgiveness, offered to repay him. King Solomon was amused by the bee’s earnest proposal, for how could such a little bee repay such a powerful king? Dalia Hardof Renberg’s simple adaptation of this traditional story, pared with Ruth Heller’s glorious illustrations, is a surprising and charming tale of how one small bee keeps its mighty promise.

Ecclesiastes and the Riddle of Authorship
Ecclesiastes and the Riddle of Authorship

Author: Thomas M. Bolin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-27

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1317297601

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In Ecclesiastes, the authorial voice of Qohelet presents an identity that has challenged readers for centuries. This book offers a reception history of the different ways readers have constructed Qohelet as an author. Previous reception histories of Ecclesiastes group readings into "premodern" and "critical," or separate Jewish from Christian readings. In deliberate contrast, this analysis arranges readings thematically according to the interpretive potential inherent in the text, a method of biblical reception history articulated by Brennan Breed. Doing so erases the artificial distinctions between so-called scholarly and confessional readings and highlights the fact that many modern academic readings of the authorship of Ecclesiastes travel in well-worn interpretive paths that long predate the rise of critical scholarship. Thus this book offers a reminder that, while critical biblical scholarship is an essential part of the interpretive task, academic readings are themselves indebted to the Bible’s reception history and a part of it.

"Why Ask My Name?"

Author: Adele Reinhartz

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1998-11-12

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 0195356713

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Unnamed characters--such as Lot's wife, Jephthah's daughter, Pharaoh's baker, and the witch of Endor--are ubiquitous in the Hebrew Bible and appear in a wide variety of roles. Adele Reinhartz here seeks to answer two principal questions: first, is there a "poetics of anonymity," and if so, what are its contours? Second, how does anonymity affect the readers' response to and construction of unnamed biblical characters? The author is especially interested in issues related to gender and class, seeking to determine whether anonymity is more prominent among mothers, wives, daughters, and servants than among fathers, husbands, sons and kings and whether the anonymity of female characters functions differently from that of male characters.

A Riddle for the King
A Riddle for the King

Author: Keith Wrassmann

Publisher:

Published: 2021-12

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781737902003

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In this verse narrative of one of the Bible's most mysterious stories and personas, the Queen of Sheba journeys to confront King Solomon with some of life's hardest questions. What of the corrupted world? Death? Evil? Eternity? King Solomon delivers timely answers to these and more, and the Queen of Sheba discovers what she never expected. A Riddle for the King features a variety of forms, meters, and rhyme schemes giving each character a unique voice. Included among others are blank verse, villanelle, quatrains, and terza rima. King Solomon answers the Queen's many questions in his own signature form.