The Mysterious Birth and Choice in the Story of Solomon in the Stories of the Quran and the Torah with a Reading of the Avestan Myth of Jam

Some elements of the story of a character called “Jam” or “Yam” in Avesta are formally similar to stories in the Torah and the Quran concerning Solomon. As can be imagined, the story of Jam/Yam in Shahnama can be a symbol of Solomon for remarkable similarities between the two. The two issues of “mysterious birth” and “choice” I deal with in this research as relevant to extant readings of the two characters were either overlooked in previous studies or discussed without a comparison of contents in the Quran, the Torah, and Avesta and without consideration of certain other fundamental aspects. In the present paper, I aim to radically consider and analyze the similarities between the stories in the two above dimensions. The method is to analyze the content of narrations in the Quran, the Torah, and Avesta. In the meanwhile, I deploy reliable exegeses of Quranic verses. The findings via fictional narratology introduces the reader to new aspects of the interesting and rather similar lifes of Jam in Avesta and Solomon in divine scriptures through a comparative study.