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Religious

Sermon: "The Queen Of Sheba" by William Marrion Branham. The Queen's desire to visit Solomon is compared to the desire to attend an evangelical revival:

"Now, you remember, she's got a lot of prestige, you know, because she's the queen. So I suppose she said, 'Before I do this now, I better go ask our pastor whether I can go or not (See?), 'cause I have to get permission from my denomination, because that's another denomination. See? So I'd better go ask my pastor if I can go, am I free.'"

The Queen of Sheba. A sermon or essay by the Rev. Dr. Susan Durber, St. Columba's United Reform Church, Oxford, UK. Durber focuses on the the story's racial overtones.

"But there is a problem. It was the Latin of the Vulgate version of the Bible that introduced the but. 'Nigra sum sed formosa' — I am black but comely. Not black and comely, but comely despite being black. Where African Christians celebrated Sheba's colour, European Christianity gradually marginalised and tried to forget it.

"In Christ there is no East or West. In Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek. All are one in Christ. Until earth and heaven are made new, Sheba will still rise in judgement. Until she and all her sisters can be black and comely, until all wisdoms will be recognised, until any Jew could rest his bones in Egypt, until any human being could hold the hand of another in honest and co-equal love, the queen of the south will rise in judgement."

Kids

Kid's Bible story packet with coloring page, a quiz, a word search and a crossword puzzle.

Amazon. King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba by Blu Greenberg and Linda Tarry, illustrated by Avi Katz (ages 4-8). The School Library Journal lauds its:

"exciting original material … an equal relationship, and a naturally multicultural, as well as slightly feminist, bias."

Amazon. Meet the Queen of Sheba: More Dramatic Portraits of Biblical Women by Rosanne Gartner, Roseanne Gartner. No info on age or its reception.

Merchandise

Goodman's China and Gifts has a "Queen of Sheba" figurine from the "Les Femmes Fatales" series for $999.50 (regular price $1850.00)

Gifts by Tahani has a $30 figurine.

"Makeda Queen of Sheba" doll from Anne Myatt / LikeMeDolls.com. All her dolls are individuals, not machine copies.

Throw blanket ($72).

Eponymous

Queen of Sheba restaurant, New York, NY. They have a nice page about the Queen of Sheba.

These reviews look pretty positive.

Jacksonville, FL Queen of Sheba restaurant, with a Sheba page.

Review from DinnerBroker.

Queen of Sheba restaurant, Atlanta, GA.

Queen of Sheba restaurant, Portland, Oregon.

Queen of Sheba restaurant, Seattle, WA.

Queen of Sheba restaurant, St. Paul, MN.

Queen Sheba Restaurant, Sacramento, CA

Houston, TX "Queen of Sheba" reviewed.

Queen of Sheba hotel, Eilat, Israel.

Sheba links

Solomon and Sheba links compiled by Tracy Marks, for her project Makeda, Queen of Sheba, including Handel and three references in Yeats.

Other sites

The Queen of Sheba Group,"informal working group" brought together originally to discuss and plan for the British Museum exhibit. The Articles section has a number of interesting pieces, mined here.

Abstract of dissertation: "Antike St�tten im Land der K�nigin von Saba erforscht" by Stefanie Hahn, Friedrich-Schiller-Universit�t Jena.

Amazon. In Her Footsteps: 101 Remarkable Black Women from the Queen of Sheba to Queen Latifah by Annette Madden. Most the women are modern.