In the Hebrew Bible, the story of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel is more than a cautionary tale. It is a piercing examination of how power, when unchecked by conscience, can rot the moral foundation ...

Ahab defeated the invading Assyrians. His marriage to Jezebel was a shrewd diplomatic move, since she was a princess of the powerful neighboring kingdom of Phoenicia.

Evidently, Jezebel ignored the warning for the punishment came swift and sure to her. However, the warning made an impression on Ahab. He immediately repented and humbled himself before the Lord ...

Perdita Weeks reads the audiobook version of Megan Barnard’s debut novel, reimagining the Israeli queen as a source of mythic, feminist anger.

I herewith answer the questions of your correspondents which you have referred to me apropos of my recent novel, "Jezebel," prefacing the answers with a few words about the serious charge which ...

The Bible does so, she argues, through the story of Queen Jezebel (wife to King Ahab, who ruled over Israel in the 9th century b.c.).

But this fate is not unique to Jezebel: Elijah says that it will happen to “anyone belonging to Ahab.” Jezebel plays an active role in attempting to satisfy her husband’s greed, but the story is ...

The biblical story of Naboth's vineyard teaches non-indigenous Christians like me how God views the injustice that made Melbourne.

How a pagan queen became a notorious villain in the Bible Thrown from a window because of her “wicked” ways, Queen Jezebel is one of the few female villains of the Bible.

To the Biblical student, the name Jezebel is attributed to an evil queen married to king Ahab of Israel (see 1 Kings 16). Jezebel convinced her husband to abandon worship to Jehovah God and ...

When Captain Ahab set sail, he was looking for revenge. But the crew of the Pequod were after something less personal and more profitable: sperm whales. And thanks to an 18th-century form of ...

Jezebel is the wife of Ahab, King of Samaria. Ahab wants Naboth’s vineyard because it borders his property. Naboth won’t give it up because it is his ancestral home.