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ETHIOPIA<br />
M. M. NINAN<br />
VI<br />
HERITAGE OF KING SOLOMON AND QUEEN OF SHEBA<br />
MENELIK AND THE ARK OF THE COVENANT<br />
THE IMPERIAL CREST OF THE HOUSE OF SOLOMON<br />
Ethiopia is evidently one of the oldest countries in the world. In the long and disturbed history of<br />
the African continent, Ethiopia remains the only country, which has never been colonized except<br />
for a few years by the Italian Nazis.<br />
Herodotus the Greek historian of the fifth century B.C. describes ancient Ethiopia in his writings.<br />
The Old Testament of the Bible records the Queen of Sheba’s visit to Jerusalem. Sheba (Known<br />
in Ethiopia as Makeda) was the Queen of Saba, modern Yemen. Ethiopia was one of the<br />
possessions of Queen Sheba. "The kings of Abyssinia trace their descent back to a certain<br />
Menelik, the reputed son of the Queen of Sheba and Solomon (Ewald and Winer). The African<br />
traveler Hugues le Roux claims to have discovered in an Abyssinian manuscript in the Geez<br />
dialect the earliest version of the story of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, which had been<br />
known previously only through popular tradition ("Deutsche Literaturzeitung," 1904, col. 1826).<br />
The present (1905) ruler of Abyssinia, at the time of his victory over the forces of Italy, actually<br />
declared himself to be a descendant of the Judean lion. A study on the legend in question as it<br />
exists in the tradition of Axum, a place of pilgrimage to the west of Adua, was published by<br />
Littmann in 1904." Jewish Encyclopedia 1906<br />
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