Mazar: It seems to me that Jerusalem at the time of King David and King Solomon was very much like the Bible describes. It was monumental; the constructions were massive. They used the Phoenicians ...

According to the Bible, the Philistines encamped in this ... in 1940 that he had discovered the Edomite mines controlled by King Solomon. Subsequent British excavators believed they had found ...

Over time, she says, the mysterious queen, simply by being an “other” — a woman in a man’s world, a foreigner in King Solomon’s court — assumed a symbolic heft far greater than the one she’s accorded ...

In those instances, the judge may say something to lighten the mood like, “Let’s split the baby on this one,” before issuing their ruling that comes down somewhere in the middle between what both ...