Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Queen of Sheba. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Sign In or Create Account Help You have items in your cart. Queen of Sheba - Ebook written by Roberta Kells Dorr. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers. Lee tells a terrific tale of a woman who must figure out her way through the prickly path of politics and religion to find what she really wants. Find The Queen Of Sheba by Dorr, Roberta Kells at Biblio. This bold move surprises the “wisest man on earth,” but he is delighted by the prospect. Finally, Bilqis decides to travel herself to see this mighty king, in the hope that he will not cut off the trade routes that have brought Saba its wealth. A sort of pen-pal relationship develops between the king and queen, each new papyrus a challenge, a riddle and a mirror. He is offended by her stance and so writes her a secret letter. When she hears of the new king, Solomon, from that upstart land of Israel, she refuses to send him an emissary.
And yet, for all her power and riches, she finds the life to which she was born often empty. Filled with gold, frankincense and myrrh, the land of Saba (Sheba) is rich beyond imagination, and Bilqis is both beautiful and brilliant. Lee captures the mystery, majesty and mayhem of the ancient world with its warring gods and goddesses, and their struggles to gain or retain control of their piece of land. Thus begins Tosca Lee’s epic story of Bilqis, daughter of the king of Sheba, who rises to become one of the most famous queens in the world. This is the tale you are meant to believe. The story of a queen conquered by a king before she returned to her own land laden with gifts. “There is a tale that is told: A desert queen journeyed north with a caravan of riches to pay tribute to a king and his One God.
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