Who's Who

If I were telling these stories in a school assembly, with the People of God, then any of the figures could be Paul or Barnabas. But I have a feeling that the only figures who could be Solomon or the Queen of Sheba are the ones with gold and silver heads. That makes me slightly uneasy about this story - the more so as the gold and silver figures are recent additions, and I find I don't use them much.
Is the story of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba a story of the People of God? Because if it is, then in some sense it's a story about us. Not in the sense that we're like the people in the story, or that we might know someone like them, or that we can find a contemporary parallel to the story. Just in the sense that the People of God are people encountering God, and so are we, and our story is continuous with theirs even though it's thousands of years later and all sorts of things about the way we live are different.
I started thinking about the People of God because I find it a good way in to a story, to think about how I'd tell it with them. Thinking about it, I've remembered another good way in to a story, which is a question to ask of it: the question is 'What is God like in this story?'
What is God like, in the story of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba?
Another question would be why I appear not to be thinking about Paul and Barnabas. But the answer to that's easy, it's because I don't have this sort of unease about them. They're the People of God. I can see what God's like in their story.