Far from the Madding Crowd a 1980s/90s boarding school in the UK countryside (published January 2019). The novel was adapted by Graham White in 2012 into a three-part series on BBC Radio 4's "Classic Serial". The production was directed by Jessica Dromgoole and featured Alex Tregear as Bathsheba, Shaun Dooley as Gabriel, Toby Jones as Boldwood and Patrick Kennedy as Troy. The novel was adapted by Posy Simmonds into "Tamara Drewe", weekly comic strip that ran from September 2005 to October 2006 in "The Guardian"s Review section. The strip, a modern reworking of the novel, was itself adapted into a film, "Tamara Drewe" (2010), directed
Naamah (wife of Solomon) as Naamah was to descend from them. Naamah (wife of Solomon) Naamah ("pleasant") was an ancient queen consort, wife of King Solomon and mother of his heir Rehoboam, according to both , and in the Hebrew Bible. She was an Ammonite, and the only one of all the Queens Mother of Israel or Judah who was a foreigner. She was also the only one of Solomon's wives to be mentioned, within the Hebrew Bible, as having borne a child. Naamah is praised in "Bava Kamma" 38b for her righteousness, on account of which Moses had previously been warned by God