How Solomon finally wins her, and how this beautiful queen resolves the conflicts among herself, her old religion, and the intrigues of her kinsmen, make 'The Queen of Sheba' an exciting, bold novel of love and faith. Also, she must return to rule her own people. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for The Queen of Sheba a Novel by Roberta Kells Dorr PB 1996 Christian Biblical at the best online. But she is still too independent to let anyone become close to her. She earned her Masters at Louisvilles Southern Seminary and spent the next seventeen years with her surgeon husband and five children, serving as missionaries in the Gaza Strip & Jibla, Yemen.
In Solomon, to her surprise, she finds both love and a new faith - the covenant between man and woman and the covenant between humanity and God. Roberta Kells Dorr, born in the roaring twenties, survived the depression on a farm in Minnesota. Bilqis, the 'Queen of Sheba', is a woman as modern as her story is ancient.ĭisillusioned by her own religion, under pressure to marry but finding no suitor who meets her own high standards, and disturbed by the effect of Solomon's new fleet of ships on Sheba's precious trade routes, Bilqis travels to Israel to meet the legendary Hebrew king and divert a needless and costly war.īilqis is a woman who longs for love but is reluctant to forsake her independence, aware that she has much to lose if she makes the wrong choice. Dorr tells of a beautiful, intelligent, and independent queen who constantly battles the priests and high lords of her kingdom who resent being ruled by a woman. This stirring and epic account of a pagan queen's search for truth and love paints a captivating portrait of a woman struggling with her passions and responsibilities while it brings to life the ancient Middle East. In 'Queen of Sheba', Roberta Kells Dorr has woven historical and archaeological research with age-old legend to create a riveting tale of ancient plots and passions.
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