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Jezebel (Wife of Ahab)

1 Kings 16:31; 18; 19; 21; 2 Kings 9

List of Reading & Resources:

Articles

  • "Death of Jezebel" by Jennifer L. Koosed

  • “Jezebel” by Cat Quine

  • "Jezebel: Bible" by Athalya Brenner

  • “Jezebel Isn’t Who You Think She Is” by Nyasha Junior

  • "Jezebel: Midrash and Aggadah" by Tamar Kadari

  • “It’s Not About Jezebel” by Nanette Sawyer

  • “A Few Words in Favor of Jezebel” by James Ishmael Ford

Books

  • "Jezebel and Her Interpreters" by Josey Bridges Snyder in Women's Bible Commentary, edited by Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. Ringe, and Jacqueline E. Lapsley (2012)

  • ​​“Queen Jezebel, or Deuteronomy's Worst Nightmare” (pp.209-214) in Reading the Women of the Bible by Tikva Frymer-Kensky (2002)

  • “Jezebel Re-Vamped” (pp.196-206) by Tina Pippin in A Feminist Companion to Samuel and Kings edited by Athalya Brenner (1994)

  • “The Odd Couple: Elijah and Jezebel” (pp.166-179) by Phyllis Trible in Out of the Garden: Women Writers on the Bible edited by Christine Büchmann and Celina Spiegel (1994)

  • “IZEVEL (JEZEBEL)” (pp.239-246) in Ch.9 of Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne by Wilda C. Gafney (2017)

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This project has been created by Founder and Executive Director Debbie McLeod alongside a team of Yale-educated researchers: Anna Grace Glaize, McKenzie Brummond, Moriah Asch, Brian Peterson, Laura Traverse, Phoebe Oler, and Sarah Ambrose

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