How Long to Read Demonizing the Queen of Sheba

How Long Does it Take to Read Demonizing the Queen of Sheba?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 17 minutes to read Demonizing the Queen of Sheba by Jacob Lassner

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Over the centuries, Jewish and Muslim writers transformed the biblical Queen of Sheba from a clever, politically astute sovereign to a demonic force threatening the boundaries of gender. In this book, Jacob Lassner shows how successive retellings of the biblical story reveal anxieties about gender and illuminate the processes of cultural transmission. The Bible presents the Queen of Sheba's encounter with King Solomon as a diplomatic mission: the queen comes "to test him with hard questions," all of which he answers to her satisfaction; she then praises him and, after an exchange of gifts, returns to her own land. By the Middle Ages, Lassner demonstrates, the focus of the queen's visit had shifted from international to sexual politics. The queen was now portrayed as acting in open defiance of nature's equilibrium and God's design. In these retellings, the authors humbled the queen and thereby restored the world to its proper condition. Lassner also examines the Islamization of Jewish themes, using the dramatic accounts of Solomon and his female antagonist as a test case of how Jewish lore penetrated the literary imagination of Muslims. Demonizing the Queen of Sheba thus addresses not only specialists in Jewish and Islamic studies, but also those concerned with issues of cultural transmission and the role of gender in history.

How long is Demonizing the Queen of Sheba?

Demonizing the Queen of Sheba by Jacob Lassner is 308 pages long, and a total of 79,464 words.

This makes it 104% the length of the average book. It also has 97% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Demonizing the Queen of Sheba Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 14 minutes to read Demonizing the Queen of Sheba aloud.

What Reading Level is Demonizing the Queen of Sheba?

Demonizing the Queen of Sheba is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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