Queen of Sheba: Treasures from Ancient Yemen

click here for more details, find new or used items	Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones New from £28.27 Used from £20.00 Pages: 304 (Paperback) Editor: St John Simpson ISBN: 0714111511 Pub: British Museum Press Pub date: 2002-07 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 170576

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Queen of Sheba comprehensively represented (4/4 people found this helpful)

The catalogue "Queen of Sheba, Treasures from Ancient Yemen" contains the most modern knowledge of paleohistory and history, archeology, arts, agriculture, langages and writing, religion, death and funerary practices in southern Arabia. Furthermore here one finds the most comprehensive representations of the Queen of Sheba legends in Jewish, Arabic, andwestern traditions, and also her international in the different cultural areas. The authors are experts.The editors perhaps could have included more Persian paintings, a larger Ethiopian representation of the legend, a Tigrean version, chapters about the Persian Sibyl an the Reine Pedauque. But even without such ornaments the catalogue deserves six stars. A beautiful book. An old Sheba buff can hint at two almost comparable books : Rolf Beyer, Königin von Saba, Lübbe 1987, and Werner Daum, Königin von Saba,
Prestel 1988, both at Amazon, too.

Excellent review of present knowledge (4/5 people found this helpful)

This work is an excellent survey of most sources concerning the Queen of Sheba. Its weakness is understandable, given Saudi hostility to the chief symbol of the world that women lost after the rise of the iron age states and the development of patriarchal religions. The book is therefore unable to discuss the area north of Yemen, in Asir, where it is highly likely that the Sabaeans (Shebans) unsucessfully challenged Solomon's expansionary kingdom. This book has Rabin's Ancient West Arabian in its bibliography but makes no mention of its alarming findings, which point to an ancient Israelite presence. The book also ignores Schneider's findings in Ethiopia where Sabaean inscriptions near Mekele speak of three queens of Sabaea (Sheba) ruling over a mixed population of Sabaeans and Hebrews.

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