Sheba (Magill’s Literary Annual 2002)
At a glance:
- Author: Nicholas Clapp
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Travel and history
- Time of Work: Ancient times
- Setting: Arabia, Ethiopia, Israel, and Syria
- Principal Characters: Queen of Sheba, Solomon
- Genres: Nonfiction, Travel writing, History
- Subjects: Africa or Africans, Traveling or travelers, Kings, queens, or royalty, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism, Israel or Israelis, Middle East, Archaeology or archaeologists, Syria or Syrians
- Locales: Africa, Israel, Syria, Middle East
Nichol as Clapp spent more than twenty years in his search for the Queen of Sheba. His topic crosses at least four continents and spans three millennia. Sheba begins with Clapp’s personal encounter with the Queen of Sheba legend in the very city where she met King Solomon. While in Jerusalem in 1982 to film ancient sites for a documentary, Clapp visited the chapel of the Ethiopian Copts in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. There he discovered a modern painting of the queen’s arrival before Solomon. The regal dignity of the queen in this painting led Clapp on an adventurous...
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