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“Regardless of the historicity of Solomon, it is no coincidence part of the construction of both Baalbek (as I suggest) and the Temple Mount are credited to him-this mythical supernaturally wealthy "super-king". This is not to say he actually built them as obviously this is little more than literary cultural appropriation of existing monuments by the later Hebrew writers, but that one such as him would be required to do so i.e. only someone as "great" as Solomon could build these things.”
Hi Lee, it would be quite a feat for a king, no matter how wealthy or wise, to build such monuments himself . Rather, I suggest that the “super-King” as you suggest had the wear with all, to pay engineers and stone masons to build these monuments. A king that might have been remembered as a “Solomon” was Amenhotep III. But, alas, we can never know for sure.
Hi Lee, it would be quite a feat for a king, no matter how wealthy or wise, to build such monuments himself . Rather, I suggest that the “super-King” as you suggest had the wear with all, to pay engineers and stone masons to build these monuments. A king that might have been remembered as a “Solomon” was Amenhotep III. But, alas, we can never know for sure.
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