SOLOMON

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SOLOMON

Everyone knows who King Solomon was. Right? Wrong. The people who should have known who he was and left records of him didn�t; The Greeks, the Romans, the Egyptians. And we have to find out why.

In the Bible he is mentioned as being wealthy beyond belief. Known throughout the middle east. Kings sent envoys to him with presents or visited him themselves to do him homage. A queen visited him from a distant land. Yet there is no record of him outside of the Bible.

Since we know or assume the Bible does not lie, then we have a dilema. And that dilema is caused by time. By setting the date back to the 17th century B.C. for the Hyksos, we also set the time back for Moses. That means we must also set the time back for Solomon.

Some of the oldest writings that have come down to us that are not on clay tablets are the Greeks,Romans, Persian Fables, and of course the writings of the Illiad and the Odyssey by Homer. None of them mention Solomon and yet they are not supposed to be too far from his time with the old time reckoning. And when we learn that these people were knowledgable of the Egyptian and Persian and Turkish lands we are surprised that they do not mention this great king.

Solon went to Egypt and brought back no tales of him. Herodotus traveled the entire middle east and never mentioned him. We have myths and legends of Knosses and other Mediteranian Island Kingdoms, but no Israelite nation is mentioned at all. And this, when you realize that the great seafaring nations of King Hiram was supposed to be trading far and wide for him, must raise eyebrows of astonishment in the Archaeology field.

The only King that is mentioned in their writing that may have equelled Solomon, is King Midas. Everything he did turned to gold to the point that the fable sprang up that his very touch turned things to gold. Could he have been Solomon?

Archaeology has spent time and effort trying to trace Midas and has not found him outside of the Greek fables. The best they have come up with is trying to claim a gold bearing river of small size in Turkey may have been his source of gold. This is a poor excuse for a source of fabled riches for a king.

What we have to do is look at the time lines for Greece and Rome. Some people judge the time line for Greece based on the Olympiads and at the same time they do not believe the actual records of the olympiads because they go back too far. They are trying to fit actual recorded history into their mistaken view of history. I find this strange since �Greece� as we know it stems from the area of the mainland and not the penninsula held by the spartans and Agamemmnon. Why would Greeks have instituted their games on the lands of Agamemmnon and Mycanae? And these lands go back into the dim history of time, too long before Homer�s time.

E.V.Rieu, who did the best translation of Homer�s Iliad, has stated that he put the time line for Homer�s writing to 1,000 B.C. where others claim a date of 700 B.C. One of the reasons he claims that time is very astute. Homer writes about lions being still extant in the area . By 700 B.C. this was not the case. If he wrote as early as 1,000 B.C. then the �history� he wrote about must have occurred even earlier. What I am trying to say is that many time lines are out because the early University�s were still teaching the church based time lines for history based on their interpretation of the Bible. And those time lines were anchored to the time lines that they had established for the Egyptian Pharoh's.

That could mean that by Homers time Solomon was old history unknown to them. 700 to 900 years may have passed between the ages of Solomon and Homer�s time. Long enough to forget. However that does not explain the lack of mention by Egypt, her close nieghbor. But then Egypt doesn�t mention Hiram or any of the Mediteranion events, or Creosis. Or the explosion of Santorini as far as I am aware. And surely that did not go unnoticed by them.

All we can conclude by this is two things; Solomon was not as great as made out or he was too far back in time to remember. I would put him back to 1400 BC, at least 300 years after Moses.