The presence of a black man at the court of the wise king reveals much about the presence of people of African descent in Europe at the dawn of a new, more direct encounter with the surrounding world.

"King Solomon," whose passage through the streets in a patrol wagon, dressed in his crown and wizard's cloak, created considerable amusement on Broadway on Friday, was dressed last night in a very ...

Here’s how it works. The Queen of Sheba before King Solomon, shown in this miniature artwork from the 15th-century Grimani Breviary manuscript. (Image credit: DeAgostini/Getty Images) ...

Isaac Kalimi, King Solomon: His Birth and Names in the Second Temple Period Literature, Biblica, Vol. 93, No. 4 (2012), pp. 481-499 ...