Prof. Jillian Stinchcomb is an associate professor at Towson University, where she teaches in the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department, the History Department, and in the Jewish Studies courses of the Baltimore Hebrew Institute. She received her Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 2020. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the "Interactive Histories, Co-Produced Communities: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam" project from 2022–2024 and the Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Hebrew Bible and Mediterranean Cross Cultural Textual Antiquities at Brandeis University from 2020–2022. Her essay “What Do we Know about the Queen of Sheba? Epistemological Limits and New Paths Forward” was published in Queens in Antiquity and the Present: Speculative Visions and Critical Histories (Bloomsbury Press, 2024), and she is currently preparing the manuscript for her first book, The Queen of Sheba between the Bible and the Kebra Nagast.
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December 20, 2024
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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.
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.
