For People Who Think There Was No Historical Jesus

[EGross]

Like I said, some others like to apply dates. All we have is the old story of Alexander wanting his statue in the Jewish Temple, and getting convinced that having his name live on forever would be better than some old statue. He also seems to be one of the few Emperors in the Jewish texts who has positive things written about.

And yes, Solomon (Shlomo) is a problem. It is during the period when he was supposed to reign that some of the worst things happened, that the Jewish kingdoms split into two due to his excesses, and even the sages say about his ending that he "...left his kingdom to walk among them, and a demon (shayd) sat in his place." meaning, he was really bad news. Furthermore, unless he was shooting a heck of a lot of blanks, someone with 700 wives and 300 concubines should have had a heck of a lot of kids! As to the ending of his life and the turning over of his kingdom, it is one of the weirdest parts of his story, becuase he is one of the few that we really don't know. Schoars are divided as to if he died or didn't die before his son took over, and his death is also inconclusive in the stories.

Unlike David, where there is at least one item that says "House of David", albeit 100 years after David lived, Solomon is more of an enigma. For a supposed wise person, he did way too many stupid things, so much so that the Abarbanel considered him one of the vilest of men, unworthy of reverence.

I found this explanation from the Israeli Ministry of foreign affaris that provides even more details to dismiss any Biblical accounts whatsoever. (Let's see Saudi Arabia do that concerning Mohammed!)