Who was the Queen of Sheba?

Answer 1

There are already some good answers here. She was formerly known as the queen of Sabaea, which was largely what we now call the western part of Yemen, and a part of Egypt we call Eritrea. Sabaeans were generally a form of Arabs, that invaded Egypt to secure that shipping lane prior to the Queen in the Bible.

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If you look at the map, that is a very strategic location for shipping. Sabaea made a lot of money on trade, shipping, piracy, and provisioning and repairing ships traversing that strait and its harbor.

Rumor has it, so much trade was going from Phoenicia(Lebanon-Tyre) and Israel through the strait the queen controlled, she went north to investigate, where she met Solomon. Between the Jews and the Phoenicians, they held great wealth at this time, and the Phoenician sailors brought many wanders back from Persia, which mightily impressed the queen. There is no theological support that the Queen of Sheba was the authoress or subject of Song of Songs.

Phoenicians and Jews got along pretty well then.

It is legend that the Queen brought knowledge of Judaism back to her region, and another legend says she formed a good enough friendship with Solomon, and therefore Israel, that when the first temple was destroyed, the Ark of the Covenant was entrusted to safekeeping by her people. Discovery channel covers this Ark from time to time. But the copts who claim to hold the Ark are christians, and solomon was not.

Answer 2

Sheba was an ancient name for Abyssinia, a kingdom on the Red Sea in the vicinity of modern Ethiopia and Yemen. The Queen of Sheba is best known for a story in the Bible's book of Kings: at the head of a caravan of riches, she visits Israel's King Solomon to test his legendary wisdom. After Solomon successfully answers her riddles, the queen showers him with gifts. According to Ethiopian tradition the queen returned to Sheba and bore a son by Solomon, Menelik I, who was the beginning of the Ethiopian royal dynasty.

Answer 3

She was the queen of Sheba, a region of North-East Africa, during the Reign of Solomon (third king of the United Kingdom of Israel), who after hearing about the fame of Solomon decided to pay him a visit to prove with her eyes what she had heard about him. You may find her in 1 Kings 10

Answer 4

The Queen of Sheba, referred to in the Bible books of 1 Kings and 2 Chronicles, the Qur'an, and Ethiopian history, was the ruler of Sheba, an ancient kingdom which modern archeology speculates was located in present-day Ethiopia or Yemen . Unnamed in the biblical text, she is called Makeda in the Ethiopian tradition, and in Islamic tradition her name is Bilqis. Alternative names given for her have been Nikaule or Nicaula.

Answer 5

She is known to be an African Queen. MAKEDA
QUEEN OF SHEBA (The symbol of Beauty) (960 B.C.)
"I am black but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, As the tents of Kedar, As the curtains of Solomon, Look not upon me because I am black Because the sun hath scorched me." (Song of Solomon)

Although most of Black history is suppressed, distorted or ignored by an ungrateful modern world, some African traditions are so persistent that all of the power and deception of the Western academic establishment have failed to stamp them out. One such story is that of Makeda, the Queen of Sheba, and King Solomon of Israel. Black women of antiquity were legendary for their beauty and power. Especially great were the Queens of Ethiopia. This nation was also known as Nubia, Kush, Axum and Sheba. One thousand years before Christ, Ethiopia was ruled by a line of virgin queens. The one whose story has survived into our time was known as Makeda, "the Queen of Sheba." The Bible tells us that, during his reign, King Solomon of Israel decided to build a magnificent temple. To announce this endeavor, the king sent forth messengers to various foreign countries to invite merchants from abroad to come to Jerusalem with their caravans so that they might engage in trade there.

Nevertheless, the Jewish monarch wished to plant his seed in Makeda, so that he might have a son from her regal African lineage. After returning to the land of Sheba, Queen Makeda did indeed have a son, whom she named Son-of-the-wise-man, and reared as a prince and her heir apparent to the throne. Upon reaching adulthood, the young man wished to visit his father, so the Queen prepared another entourage. Solomon and the Jewish people rejoiced when his son arrived in Israel. The king anointed him as the Queen had requested and renamed him Menelik, meaning "how handsome he is." , even now, the ruler of Ethiopia is the "conquering lion of Judah" descended directly from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.

Answer 6

she was the Queen of Sheba.....

--she got Solomon to worship the sun...

Answer 7

She is one of the few people mentioned in both the Hebrew Bible and the Q'uran, as well as in many other court documents of other kingdoms of that time period. (Abraham and Moses being two other ones.)

She lived during the time of King Solomon. The Bible recounts a story of her visit to Solomon. The story is one of a few in the Bible where a woman is shown to have some independence and/or authority. (Ruth and Esther being two other ones.)

Answer 8

One of king Solomon's girlfriend who tested the intelligence of Solomon

Answer 9

Queen of Ethiopia.Mother of King Solomon's son.Solomon said ,''I will know my son by the ring he wears.''

Answer 10

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_of_Sheba