Sheba

QUEEN OF SHEBA AND BIBLICAL SCHOLARSHIP 77
14. What is produced in the ground
but humans produce it; its food is
from what the ground produces?
15. Who married two men and had
two sons but all four of these men
had one father.
16. There was a house that was a
graveyard but no dead were
brought there and nobody left it
alive. What am I talking about?
Tests
1.* The queen gave Solomon a sawn
section of a cedar log was asked
him to identify which end had
grown nearer the sky
2.* The queen presented a number of
youngsters in identical clothes and
asked Solomon to distinguish the
boys from the girls.
3. The queen asked Solomon to
distinguish between circumcised
and uncircumcised boys.
A wick
Tamar
Samson and the
Philistines.
Answers
When the log was put
in water, the end that
had grown nearer the
root sank down.
The children were
offered food. The boys
accepted them with
open hands. The girls
demurely extended
their hands beneath
their clothes so that
their uncovered hands
would not be seen.
Solomon ordered the
Ark to be revealed. The
circumcised knelt on
one knee; the others
prostrated themselves.