The freethinker Moncure Daniel Conway follows the figure of King Solomon through the Hebrew scriptures and far beyond them. He examines the famous judgment, the many wives, the charge of idolatry, Solomon’s dealings with demons and the genii bound by his ring, and traces how later writers and storytellers in Jewish, Christian, Persian and Islamic tradition reshaped him.
Learned and freely speculative, for readers drawn to legend, comparative religion and biblical criticism. Download the free EPUB.