Talk:Sheba

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From aramcobrat_ps

I am wondering what to do with one paragraph in the version on "Sheba" that I found:

"Modern scholars tend to think a link to the Sabaeans of southern Arabia, who inhabited the same region, is the most probable. But the Sabeans did not rise until well after the legendary Queen of Sheba was meant to have lived, leaving some to believe traditional accounts of the wealth and power of Sheba to have been greatly exaggerated."

From all I can read elsewhere in the reputable literature, the last sentence beginning with "But ..." goes against the majority view of the Sabaeans as contemporary with Solomon (c. 900 BC) and of Sheba/Saba as being an incredibly wealthy kingdom based on its export of frankincense to Rome. Unless it can be written as one viewpoint, I recommend it just be deleted. One Wikipedia writer/reader's problem believing a tradition is no reason to give him/her the final word on that topic.

I agree with the unsigned poster above - in fact, I've got the 2006 Encyclopedia Britannica open right now, and they make a direct connection between Saba/Sheba, and don't even mention the other theory at all. Joey 17:00, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

By all means, fix it. If there is a minority view it should be represented here if sources can be discovered that support it. Otherwise deleted. JodyB _{Roll, Tide, Roll} 11:40, 29 September 2007 (UTC)