
King Solomon
In Our Time: Religion
The Significance of Solomon
Solomon was a figure on to whom myths and aspirations were projected. Most of the material that we have which tell us about him was written some 500 years, 400 years after he actually lived. We do the same sort of thing with our own history by elevating richard the lion heart into this model of chivalry. But we only did that quite a few centuries afterwards when memory of what he had actually done had faded.
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