The Washington Post, July 29th, 2001
SHEBA Through the Desert in Search Of the Legendary Queen By Nicholas Clapp Houghton Mifflin. 372 pp. $26 Until recently, it could be assumed that every student was tolerably well-acquainted with the Bible after a childhood in the culture it underlies. This can no longer be assumed, and the chances are that very few in the current generation of schoolchildren will have the kind of secular acquaintanceship with biblical stories necessary to fully understand their own cultural mythology. It is this context that makes Nicholas Clapp's excellent new book, Sheba, so welcome. Where once one would ha...
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