Where in Yemen was the queen of Sheba born?

Answer 1

The name, title or term "Queen of Sheba" is derived from the Hebrew malchat sheba found in I Kings 10:1. This is normally translated into other languages, e.g., French, English, Spanish etc., as "Queen of Sheba". The Hebrew original does not allow us to translate it that way sticking strictly to the Hebrew grammar, syntax etc. Actually, this term is preceded in the Hebrew with the letter vav. Placed at the start of a word, as in this case, as v-malchat sheba, the English translators write "And when Malchat Sheba (or 'Queen of Sheba') .... ".

The Hebrew letter vav in a situation like this is known as a "vav disjunctive" or "vav conjunctive". Hebrew is a context language. All languages depend on context to some extent but some languages like English develop many rules of grammar to eliminate as much contextual confusion as possible. Even then, as comedians know well, the rules of grammar often fail to achieve this. When we see a vav at the start of a word in Hebrew, we need to look at text immediately preceding the words we are looking at. In this case, the text is discussing Solomon's and Phoenicia's sailors sailing to Ophir. Here the Hebrew for "Ophir" is Auphirah. Really the place is Africa. Therefore the queen in the next verse is also Queen of Africa. Only one woman ever fit that title. That was Hatshepsut, daughter of Thutmosis I (Thutmoshe I).

The Hebrew verb to sit and administer or judge a city or country is sheb. Thus the Biblical Malchat sheb, as the text is actually written in Hebrew, simply means "The Queen who administered Africa". Only Hatshepsut of the 18th dynasty could ever make that claim. That is why Africans still refer to "The African Queen". Few modern Africans realise that Hatshepsut was the only Queen who could ever claim to rule Africa, i.e., Egypt and Ethiopia, the only real African nations in that era.

"Hatshepsut" is the birth name of the queen of that name. She is also called Maat-kare although that is just another title which reads something like 'the spirit of ra who brings order out of chaos'. Other people may have alternative translations. Hatshepsut is supposed to mean "Foremost of noble ladies". However, it could also be read "The Sign of the Sheba (Administrator) of the South". Since The Bible's Sheba said she received one sign or "report" of Solomon's fame and Hatshepsut's temple walls record her as receiving a sign or word from a foreign God asking her to go to his favourite land (not Egypt), it makes sense to translate 'Hat' as "sign". In Exodus 4:8, 8:23 and 12:13, the Hebrew word for "the sign" is 'Hat' not the normal word h'aut. We recognise the French sud and the English 'south' in the Hieroglyphic "sut". In the gospels, Sheba is "Queen of the South".

The basic problem is that Egyptologists have confused the chronology of ancient Egypt. Their dates are anything from 250 years (for the 11th and 12th dynasties), 500 years (18th dynasty) and 600 years (19th dynasty) wrong. All these dynasties should be pushed forward in time to 1500 BC for the end of the 12th dynasty, 1000 BC for the start of the 18th and circa 680 BC for the start of the 19th dynasty. By re-ordering these dynasties and removing the many fake dynasties (7 to 10, 13 to 16, 22-26 and 27 to 30) we commence Egyptian history at around 2200 BC for Dynasty 1 and end it with dynasty 19 and 20 which fell to the Chaldean and Persian empires (600 to 550 BC). [The eras covered by the 7th to 10th and 13th to 16th are actually repetitions of the Hyksos-Amalekite era and were simply a period of chaos lasting 450 years between 1500 and circa 1050 BC. But that's another complex issue].

The correct chronology places Hatshepsut-Sheba at the same time as Solomon. Thus Sheba's "birth name" was Hatshepsut's "birth name", whatever that really was. Since "Hatshepsut" is presumably a name taken after her experiences in Israel, Sheba-Hatshepsut had another name for a "birth name". If Egyptologists can isolate a specific "birth name" for "Hatshepsut" then we have Sheba's birth name.

Answer 2

1948