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Jezebel: The Untold Story of the Bible's Harlot Queen
by Lesley Hazleton (Goodreads author!)

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 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8078854?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
 rating: 5 of 5 stars Lesley Hazleton tells readers the story of a 15-year-old girl, branded like Kleenex as a harlot. But through her scholarship and use of “historical imagination” the story becomes much more layered. Married off to Ahab, the King of Israel by her father, Jezebel comes from her seaside home of Tyre to the harsh desert. She brings with her, her polytheistic beliefs and that is when Elijah, Israel’s ragged prophet of Yahweh, the one and only god, goes to war against her. Sound familiar?
 
 Hazleton has me in her grasp. Her ability to tell a page-turner of a story of a woman who is young, powerful, strong and wronged is too good to put down. Elijah sets her up to be a liar, murderer, sorceress and harlot. She was no angel but Hazelton’s story reveals a different person.
 
 Hazleton brings to her story a knowledge of history, language and syntax. She links the past to the present.
 
 I wish that she lives forever so that she can to color in the fascinating characters who live in the Bible. They are, too often, used as stock characters in a homily. Her characters are flesh and blood. Jezebel is an eye-opener.
 
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bookshelves: currently-reading
recommended for: everyone
status: Read in October, 2007

Lesley Hazleton tells readers the story of a 15-year-old girl, branded like Kleenex as a harlot. But through her scholarship and use of “historical imagination” the story becomes much more layered. Married off to Ahab, the King of Israel by her father, Jezebel comes from her seaside home of Tyre to the harsh desert. She brings with her, her polytheistic beliefs and that is when Elijah, Israel’s ragged prophet of Yahweh, the one and only god, goes to war against her. Sound familiar?

Hazleton has me in her grasp. Her ability to tell a page-turner of a story of a woman who is young, powerful, strong and wronged is too good to put down. Elijah sets her up to be a liar, murderer, sorceress and harlot. She was no angel but Hazelton’s story reveals a different person.

Hazleton brings to her story a knowledge of history, language and syntax. She links the past to the present.

I wish that she lives forever so that she can to color in the fascinating characters who live i...more

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10/23/2007 04:18AM

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