By Professor Janet Howe Gaines
ISBN-10: 0585307679
ISBN-13: 9780585307671
ISBN-10: 0809322749
ISBN-13: 9780809322749
An alien, a polytheist from Phoenicia, the biblical Queen Jezebel posed a significant probability to the steadiness of the Israelites' unmarried male deity. So robust was once this hazard that writers throughout the a long time have portrayed her because the incarnation of female evil, and her identify has develop into synonymous with the misogynist view of girls as seductresses.Janet Howe Gaines argues that the bride of the Israelite king Ahab turned a handy scapegoat for biblical writers who portrayed her because the basic strength in the back of their nation's apostasy. The biblical account offers the queen as a assassin, as a disruptive strength for evil. Despised, the strong-willed Jezebel remains to be essentially the most exciting girls of the Bible.Music within the outdated Bones is a advisor to the everlasting Jezebel tale. the 1st a part of this illustrated examine is a close research that explores the biblical story from conventional and feminist issues of view. Gaines then analyzes the methods authors in the course of the centuries have handled Jezebel. Her unburied bones grew to become misogynist relics for generations of writers who retold her tale as a caution concerning the risks of rebelling opposed to patriarchal society. From the sermons of John Knox to the novels of Margaret Atwood, from the poetry of Percy Shelley to the ballads of Boyz II males, from the drama of Racine to the Academy Award-winning movie starring Bette Davis, Jezebel has lengthy been the topic of creative inquiry. Her photograph because the undesirable woman of the Bible continues to be precious to writers. so much make the most her identify and evil acceptance to reinforce their admonitions to ladies, yet a couple of separate from from culture and overtly respect Jezebel's braveness and vigor.Placing the biblical account of Jezebel's doomed reign within the context of its xenophobic writers, Gaines proposes a brand new and extra sympathetic studying of the murdered queen whose physique was once left to rot within the streets and whose recognition suffered a destiny much more egregious. instead of offering an honest burial for the mangled bones of Jezebel, Gaines seeks to flesh them out and revivify them simply because, as she demonstrates, "there's song within the previous bones yet."
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Most of all, I want to thank my husband, Barry Gaines, for finding Jezebel material in libraries around the world, for editing and proofreading the text, and for continuously supporting me as I worked. Without his help, this book would have never been completed. Page xiii INTRODUCTION Can these bones live? 3 The bones of Jezebel were never buried. her assassin, King Jehu, neglected to order her immediate interment. Instead, Jezebel's bones lay abandoned in the streets of Jezreel, deliberately left there to be trampled by horses and devoured by dogs.
53). 2). Near death, he blasphemes by calling on the "lord of the flies," Baal-zebub. Though Jezebel is not directly mentioned in Ahaziah's death scene, the redactor may be attempting to demonstrate the Phoenician woman's long-term sinister power. When her dying son feels compelled to consult a false god, Jezebel's enduring influence is implied. Jezebel's Marriage to Ahab Jezebel's marriage was a political alliance. The union of Ethbaal's daughter with the son of Omri, king of Israel (886875 BCE), potentially benefited both countries.
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