BATH-SHEBA

băthˈ-shēbə, –shēˈbə, in the Bible, wife of Uriah the Hittite. David seduced her, effected the death of her husband, and then married her. Her second son by David was Solomon.

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books on: Bath Sheba  - 1197 results

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Qataban and Sheba: Exploring the Ancient Kingdoms on the Biblical Spice Routes of Arabia
Book by Wendell Phillips; Harcourt Brace and Company, 1955
Subjects: Arabian Peninsula--Antiquities, Sheba--Queen Of, Yemen--Description And Travel
QATABAN AND SHEBA QATABAN AND SHEBA Exploring the Ancient Kingdoms on the Biblical Spice Routes...of Timna 89 10. The Queen of Sheba 103 11. Miriam and the Gold Necklace...
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Praise Her Works: Conversations with Biblical Women
Book by Penina Adelman; Jewish Publication Society, 2005
Subjects: Bible--O.T--Proverbs Xxxi--Commentaries, Midrash Ha-Gadol, Women In The Bible
...Stephanie Newman Samuels 14 Bath-Sheba 105 Savina J Teubal 15 Michal...written by Solomon for his mother, Bath-Sheba. Some say it was really written...well as Miriam, Hannah, Ruth, Naomi, Bath-Sheba, and Esther. However, I also found...
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King Josiah of Judah: The Lost Messiah of Israel
Book by Marvin A. Sweeney; Oxford University Press, 2000
Subjects: Bible--O.T--Former Prophets--Historiography, Bible--O.T--Prophets (Nevi?Im)--Criticism, Interpretation, Etc, Deuteronomistic History (Biblical Criticism), Jews--History--To 586 B.C--Historiography, Josiah--King Of Judah
...criticized in the DtrH for his affair with Bath Sheba and the murder of Uriah. Instead...light as a result of his affair with Bath Sheba and murder of Uriah. Many therefore...which David commits adultery with Bath Sheba and then arranges for the murder...
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The History of Ancient Palestine
Book by Gosta W. Ahlstrom; Fortress Press, 1993
Subjects: Bible--O.T--History Of Biblical Events, Bronze Age--Palestine, Excavations (Archaeology)--Palestine, Jews--History--To 70 A.D, Palestine--Antiquities, Palestine--History--To 70 A.D
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The Legends of the Jews - Vol. 4
Book by Louis Ginzberg; The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1913
Subjects: Legends, Legends, Jewish
...animals in the woods were chained to the spot by fear. The proportions of his body were vast beyond description. If he took a bath in the river, and dived beneath the surface, enough fish were caught in his beard to feed a multitude, and it required no less...
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journal articles on: Bath Sheba  - 6 results

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God's Nepotism a Rabbinic Critique of Divine Retribution in Yoma 22b
Journal article by Gil Nativ; European Judaism, Vol. 37, 2004
Subjects: Future punishment--Religious aspects, Rabbinical literature--Criticism and interpretation, Talmud--Works
...specifying whether it is adultery with Bath-Sheba or having Uriah killed in war, or...sin of adulterous relations with Bath-Sheba, claiming that Uriah has given her...proof of their husbands death). Thus Bath-Sheba is formally a divorcee when David...
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Louis Zukofsky
Journal article by Jeffrey Twitchell-Waas; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 22, 2002
Subjects: Authorship--Technique, Poetry--Authorship, Poets--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Zukofsky, Louis--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...underlies the oblique textual surface: "Preface," "Young David," "Thru the Eyes of Jonathan," "David and Michal," "David and Bath-sheba" and "Degrees." However, despite these clues, the reader is hard-pressed to discern any coherent narrative until reaching...
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Representations of Blacks and Blackness in the Renaissance
Journal article by Peter Erickson; Criticism, Vol. 35, 1993
Subjects: Art, Renaissance--Social aspects, Blacks--Portrayals, depictions, etc., European drama--Renaissance, 1450-1600
...nonwhite status. This particular rendering of Sheba emphasizes her act of obeisance, her acknowledgment...Cornelis van Haarlems Bathsheba in her Bath, the proximity of the naked bodies of the...Uffizi. Raphael (1483-1520), The Queen of Sheba Pays Homage to Solomon, 1519, Rome, Vatican...
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Commonalities in Hinduism and Judaism
Journal article by V.M. Kelkar, Y.D. Vaishnav; International Journal of Humanities and Peace, Vol. 17, 2001
Subjects: Hinduism--Social aspects, International relations--Religious aspects, Judaism--Social aspects, Religion and sociology--Evaluation
...possible. Sheba in ancient Hebrew means the lord of the Shabbath. Sheba is in fact, a variation in pronunciation of the Hindu deity...cooking utensils, water vessels and bedsteads until her 5th day bath, the day being counted by lunar calendar i.e. tithi. There have...
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Books for Children
Journal article by Jeanie Burnett; Childhood Education, Vol. 77, 2001
Subjects: Children's literature--Bibliography
...ancient story, this book tells of Solomon and his promise to Sheba, Queen of Africa. In trying to keep his promise, King Solomon...Albert Whitman Company, 2000. Unp. $15.95. To avoid taking a bath, Fister Farnello runs away from home and is befriended by Dirt...
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magazine articles on: Bath Sheba  - 3 results

 
 
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An Ireland of Legend: Following in the Mythic Footsteps of Queen Maeve
Magazine article by Jacki Lyden; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 289, March 2002
Subjects: Ireland--Myths and legends, Trails--Ireland
...food, on the lough with a view from each room. The rate for a double with bath is about $80; call 011-353-42-957-3223. Jacki Lyden ("An Ireland of Legend...National Public Radio and the author of the memoir Daughter of the Queen of Sheba (1997).
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"The Loud Music of Life": Representations of Jazz in the Novels of Claude McKay
Magazine article by Paul De Barros; The Antioch Review, Vol. 57, Summer 1999
Subjects: African American authors--Criticism and interpretation, African American writers--Criticism and interpretation, African Americans--Portrayals, Jazz music--Criticism and interpretation, Jazz--Criticism and interpretation, McKay, Claude--Criticism and interpretation
...dancing, eventually becomes for McKay the very symbol of personal freedom itself. In Home to Harlem, Jake says, "Lets go to the Sheba Palace and jazz around a little." McKay also writes, "The dark dancers picked up the refrain and jazzed and shouted with delirious...
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A Showcase for Yemen's Past
Magazine article by Karen Thomas; History Today, Vol. 52, June 2002
Subjects: Historic sites--Yemen, Historical museums--Yemen, History--Yemen, Yemen--Historic sites
...elite added the Turkish Hospital in 1895 and a hammam (Turkish bath house) and fortress in the early twentieth century. The Yemeni...heritage, when we dont know what there is to protect? `Queen of Sheba: Treasures from Ancient Yemen a new exhibition at the British...


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newspaper articles on: Bath Sheba  - 8 results

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If You Want to Feel like the Queen of Sheba; ASK FRANK
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), December 10, 2006
...Want to Feel like the Queen of Sheba; ASK FRANK. Byline: FRANK BARRETT...471774) in Bagshot, Surrey, and the Bath Priory Hotel in Bath (01225 331922). The treatments...come out feeling like the Queen of Sheba. I wish I could do it every week...
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In Search of Shangri-La; the Myth of Shangri-La Has Enthralled the Modern Imagination. Now in a Fascinating TV Series, Historian MICHAEL WOOD Goes in Search of the Truth Behind Some of History's Most Elusive Legends
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 29, 2005
Subjects: Andrade, Antonio
...where they lead you to a rock-hewn reservoir known as Shebas Bath. There was an ancient civilisation with Axum as its capital...founded until 1, roughly a thousand years after the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon. In Biblical times, records exist of Queen...
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It's a Bitch of a Role for Dame Judi; in the Fabulously Catty Notes on a Scandal, Judi Dench Plays a Selfish Lesbian. 'I Understand Her Desperation,' She Says
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), October 5, 2006
Subjects: Lesbians
...She even has a scene in the bath in which she nearly bares all...teacher at her school, called Sheba Hart (played by Cate Blanchett...develops a crush on her. While Sheba embraces Barbara as a friend...hand when she discovers that Sheba is having an affair with a 15-year-old...
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Why True British Grit Beats Slick American Glamour
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), February 4, 2007
Subjects: Notes on a Scandal (Motion picture)
...warm but not very clean-looking bath, smoking a cigarette as her...performance from Cate Blanchett as Sheba, the pretty art teacher at a...spiders web of sexual scheming. Sheba may want young Steven (Andrew...lonely, unloved Barbara wants Sheba much, much more, and when she...
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DEBORAH ROSS THE NON DOMESTIC GODDESS; Yummy Mummies? Oh, Give Me a Break! Introducing a Truly Desperate Housewife - and Brilliantly Witty Writer - Whose Misadventures Will Strike a Chord in Millions of Less Than Perfect Homes
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 16, 2006
...tried to defrost a chicken in the bath or dry a childs swimming costume...will say. And Im the Queen of Sheba. * Talking of the Queen of Sheba, Paul Burrell will say, she was...written this book, The Queen Off Sheba That I, And Only I, Properly...
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encyclopedia articles on: Bath Sheba  - 8 results

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Bath-Sheba
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BATH-SHEBA bath -sheb , she b , in the Bible, wife of Uriah the Hittite. David seduced her, effected the death of her husband, and then married her. Her second son by David was Solomon . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia...
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Uriah
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
URIAH yoori , husband of Bath-sheba . An alternate form is Urias. For others called Uriah in the Bible, see Urijah . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Eliam
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ELIAM eli am, in the Bible. 1 Father of Bath-sheba. An alternate form is Ammiel. 2 One of Davids warriors. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Shammua
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SHAMMUA or Shammuah both: sham yoo , in the Bible. 1 Son of David and Bath-sheba. 2 Reubenite spy. Num. 13.4. 3 Father of Abda 2. An alternate form is Shemaiah. ____________________ Copyright 2009...
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Solomon
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...SOLOMON d. c.930 b.c., king of the ancient Hebrews (c.970 c.930 b.c.), son and successor of David . His mother was Bath-sheba . His accession has been dated to c.970 b.c. According to the Bible. Solomons reign was marked by foreign alliances...
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