Hatshepsut, Queen of Sheba / Emmet Scott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scott, Emmet.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Queens--Egypt--Biography.

Queens.

Egypt--History--Eighteenth dynasty, ca. 1570-1320 B.C.

Egypt.

Hatshepsut, King of Egypt.

Hatshepsut.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Algora Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Over the centuries the figure of the Queen of Sheba has loomed large in poetry and romance. The mysterious Queen, who is said to have visited Solomon in Jerusalem, has cast her spell over poets, painters and storytellers of many lands. The people of Ethiopia have always claimed her as her own, and to this day boast that her son Menelik ? fruit of the union between the Queen and Solomon ? stole the Ark of the Covenant from the Temple in Jerusalem after Solomon?s death. For all that, historians have been more sanguine, and increasingly over the past century the academic community has veered towa

Contents:

INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1: TWO MONARCHS AND TWO NATIONS; THE WOMAN WHO WOULD BE KING; Fig. 1 Statue of Hatshepsut in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. She is depicted dressed in the clothing of a male king, though with feminine form.; WHEN DID HATSHEPSUT LIVE?; VELIKOVSKY, HATSHEPSUT AND THE QUEEN OF SHEBA; THE JOURNEY TO PUNT; BIBLICAL PARALLELS WITH THE PUNT RELIEFS; OBJECTIONS OF THE CRITICS; CHAPTER 2: IDENTITY OF THE QUEEN OF SHEBA; THE TERMS "QUEEN OF SHEBA" AND "QUEEN OF THE SOUTH"; SHEBA, CITY OF THE SPHINX; THE QUEEN OF SHEBA IN ETHIOPIAN TRADITION; CHAPTER 3: THE MYSTERY OF PUNT

THE QUEEN OF EGYPT DID GO TO PUNTFig. 3. The presentation of the gifts, from the Punt Reliefs.; Fig. 4. Loading the Egyptian Ships.; THE LOCATION OF PUNT; Fig 5. Incense trees, the main object of the expedition to Punt.; GOD'S LAND: ITS MEANING AND LOCATION; THE MYRRH TERRACES OF PALESTINE; PUNT: HOMELAND OF THE EGYPTIANS; EGYPTIAN TEXTS LOCATING PUNT IN PALESTINE; THUTMOSE III'S LIST OF CONQUERED LANDS; PUNT AS A "SOUTHERN" BOUNDARY?; THE FLORA AND FAUNA OF PUNT

Fig. 6. Various supposedly "African" animals displayed on a sixth century church in Mount Nebo, Jordan, close to the Jordan Valley.SEA-LIFE ON THE PUNT RELIEFS; ETHNIC IDENTITY OF THE PUNTITES; ERITREA AND SOMALIA IN HATSHEPSUT'S TIME: A PRIMITIVE LAND; RECAPITULATION; CHAPTER 4: THE JOURNEY TO PUNT AND ITS MEANING; THE ROUTE TO PUNT; Fig. 7. Modern Eilat, with date-palms still growing along the shore.; A JOURNEY THROUGH A STRANGE LAND; Fig. 8. Reconstruction of ancient fortress at Elat/Ezion-Geber.; Fig. 9. The Hathor Shrine at Timna.; Fig. 10. The so-called "Pillars of Solomon" at Timna.

THE PEOPLE OF PALESTINE FALL INTO DISAGREEMENT

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-87586-947-5

OCLC:

823386822