In the Bible, the Queen of Sheba is an unnamed foreign visitor to Solomon’s court. How did she later become a paradigmatic religious convert, Solomon’s wife, and the mother of Nebuchadnezzar and Menelik I, the founding figure of the Ethiopian royal court? The answer begins in the Qur’an.For many PaleoJudaica posts on the Queen of Sheba and the legends about her, including about her legs, start here and and follow the links. And for posts on the the medieval Ethiopian national epic, the Kebra Negast, follow the links from there too.
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