Endnote 26 – Did King Solomon Violate the Second Commandment?

The basic Rabbinic interpretations are set down in J.Z. Lauterbach, Mekilta de-Rabbi Ishmael (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1949), vol. 2, pps. 276–283; Mishnah, Avodah Zarah 3; Babylonian Talmud, Avodah Zarah 3.