According to the Sunday School lessons of my youth, King Solomon was playing a game when he told two mothers to split the baby that each claimed. He wanted to see who really wanted the child more.

When the wise, King Solomon of the Holy Bible had to preside over a disputed baby, he said to the two women claiming to be the mother that the solution to the problem was to cut the baby in half.

When the mother awoke, she knew it was not her baby. They argued, and the women went before King Solomon to resolve their dispute. It is written: “And the king said, ‘Bring me a sword.’ ...

King Solomon asks for a sword, resolving to settle the matter by cutting the baby in half so each can possess half the child. The second woman agrees to this judgment; the first woman says that ...

Well, they trace their roots to one tale involving the Biblical king Solomon and a stolen soul. Films, books, videogames ...

but consider the “strangers on a train” approach—it’s the kind of out-of-the-box thinking King “just cut the baby in half” Solomon might have liked. In Alfred Hitchcock’s 1951 ...

Remember that King Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines ... representing “Solomonic wisdom” — the splitting of the baby. We also discussed Solomon’s downfall, his disobeying the ...