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1 online resource (200 pages) |
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INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1: TWO MONARCHS AND TWO NATIONS; THE WOMAN WHO WOULD BE KING; WHEN DID HATSHEPSUT LIVE?; VELIKOVSKY, HATSHEPSUT AND THE QUEEN OF SHEBA; THE JOURNEY TO PUNT; BIBLICAL PARALLELS WITH THE PUNT RELIEFS; OBJECTIONS OF THE CRITICS; CHAPTER 2: IDENTITY OF THE QUEEN OF SHEBA; THE TERMS "QUEEN OF SHEBA" AND "QUEEN OF THE SOUTH"; SHEBA, CITY OF THE SPHINX; THE QUEEN OF SHEBA IN ETHIOPIAN TRADITION; CHAPTER 3: THE MYSTERY OF PUNT; THE QUEEN OF EGYPT DID GO TO PUNT; THE LOCATION OF PUNT; GOD'S LAND: ITS MEANING AND LOCATION; THE MYRRH TERRACES OF PALESTINE |
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PUNT: HOMELAND OF THE EGYPTIANSEGYPTIAN TEXTS LOCATING PUNT IN PALESTINE; THUTMOSE III'S LIST OF CONQUERED LANDS; PUNT AS A "SOUTHERN" BOUNDARY?; THE FLORA AND FAUNA OF PUNT; SEA-LIFE ON THE PUNT RELIEFS; ETHNIC IDENTITY OF THE PUNTITES; ERITREA AND SOMALIA IN HATSHEPSUT'S TIME: A PRIMITIVE LAND; RECAPITULATION; CHAPTER 4: THE JOURNEY TO PUNT AND ITS MEANING; THE ROUTE TO PUNT; A JOURNEY THROUGH A STRANGE LAND; PURPOSE OF THE EXPEDITION; WAS THE KING OF ISRAEL SHOWN ON THE PUNT RELIEFS?; WAS THE "SPLENDOR OF SPLENDORS" A COPY OF THE JERUSALEM TEMPLE? |
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ECHOES OF HATSHEPSUT'S JOURNEY IN THE SONG OF SONGS?CHAPTER 5: THE AFTERMATH; THUTMOSE III AND SHISHAK; THUTMOSE III DESTROYS HATSHEPSUT'S LEGACY; WHERE WAS THE LAND OF KADESH?; THE PEOPLE OF PALESTINE FALL INTO DISAGREEMENT; THE ROAD TO KADESH; THE CONQUEST OF GOD'S LAND; THE PEOPLE, FLORA AND FAUNA OF CANAAN; THE PLUNDER OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE; SHISHAK AND SESOSTRIS; EPILOGUE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; Fig. 1 Statue of Hatshepsut in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. She is depicted dressed in the clothing of a male king, though with feminine form |
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Fig. 3. The presentation of the gifts, from the Punt Reliefs. Fig. 4. Loading the Egyptian Ships.; Fig 5. Incense trees, the main object of the expedition to Punt.; Fig. 6. Various supposedly "African" animals displayed on a sixth century church in Mount Nebo, Jordan, close to the Jordan Valley.; Fig. 7. Modern Eilat, with date-palms still growing along the shore.; Fig. 8. Reconstruction of ancient fortress at Elat/Ezion-Geber.; Fig. 9. The Hathor Shrine at Timna.; Fig. 10. The so-called "Pillars of Solomon" at Timna.; Fig 11. Botanical garden with tropical vegetation at a kibbutz in Ein Gedi |
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Fig. 12. Ancient agricultural terracing, much of it still in use, near Jerusalem. Fig. 13 Egypt and Israel in antiquity. ; Thebes, capital of Egypt, is of course far to the south of Jerusalem; hence the Jewish term for the Egyptian monarch as "King (or Queen) of the South". ; Fig. 14. Hatshepsut's probable route to Jerusalem would have taken her through regions of unusual topography sup℗Ưporting exotic flora and fauna.; Fig. 15. Thutmose III, the "Napoleon of Egypt." Basalt staue in Luxor Museum |
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Over the centuries the figure of the Queen of Sheba has loomed large in poetry and romance. The mysterious Queen, who is said to have visited Solomon in Jerusalem, has cast her spell over poets, painters and storytellers of many lands. The people of Ethiopia have always claimed her as her own, and to this day boast that her son Menelik? fruit of the union between the Queen and Solomon? stole the Ark of the Covenant from the Temple in Jerusalem after Solomon?s death. For all that, historians have been more sanguine, and increasingly over the past century the academic community has veered towa |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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Hatshepsut, King of Egypt
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Hatshepsut, Queen of Egypt fast |
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Queens -- Egypt -- Biography
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Egypt.
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Queens
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Egypt -- History -- Eighteenth dynasty, ca. 1570-1320 B.C.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041287
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Egypt
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History
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Biographies
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Electronic book
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9780875869476 |
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0875869475 |
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