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4. Prior to the Roman arrival, the Nabataeans of Petra in northern
Arabia had achieved considerable wealth and power through
control of the caravan trade from the Arabian peninsula.The
Jerusalem Jews were ill-placed to profit from this.
5. David Ben Gurion speaking to foreign correspondents at apress
conference, Tel Aviv, 20 February 1959.
6. Salibi, Kamal. Who was Jesus? A conspiracy in
Jerusalem.London: I. B. Tauris, 1998.
7. Jacob Lassner, Demonizing the Queen of Sheba: boundaries
ofgender and culture in postbiblical Judaism and Medieval
Islam. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), 223, note
87.
8. Sheikh Hamad Al-Jasir, Al-Mug‘am al-gugrafi li’l bilad al-
’Arabiyyah al-Sa’udiyyah. [Gazetteer of Saudi Arabian Place
Names](3 volumes) Riyadh Saudi Arabia: Saudi Government,
1977.
9. William G. Dever, Who Were the Early Israelites and Where
Did They Come From? Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003.
10. Ernst Axel Knauf, Midian: Untersuchungen zur Geschichte
Palastinas und Nordarabiens am Ende des 2.Jahrtausend v.
Chr [Investigations into the History of Palestine and North
Arabia atthe end of the Second Millennium B.C.E.] Otto
Harrassowitz1988, dealt with the economic conditions in
northern Arabiabut Knauf, in a 29 June 1999 e-mail to the
author, dismissedthe idea of an Arabian location for ancient
Israel and Judah,adding, “In Midian you would read,
concerning the Queen of Sheba, that she never existed.”
11. Lou H. Silberman in Pritchard, James (ed.). Solomon and
Sheba. London: Phaidon, 1974, 68, quoting the work of S.
Krauss Die Namen der Königin von Saba, Berlin: Festschrift
Freimann, 1937. Krauss however conceded that Rabbi