This volume contains the proceedings of an international conference on Solomon that was held at the University of Leuven in 2009 and discussed various aspects of this multifaced character as he appears in Jewish, early Christian, and Islamic tradition.

Joseph Verheyden, Dr. Theol. (1987), KU Leuven, is Professor of New Testament Studies at that university. He has published and edited monographs and articles on the exegesis and the reception history of the NT. He recently co-edited W. Petersen's Collected Essays on the Diatessaron (Brill 2012).