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    <updated_at>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:54:14 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Janeadams's review<br/>recommended for: everyone<br/><br/><br/>Here's what I learned from JEZEBEL, Leslie Hazelton's fascinating new book! <br/>1. My favorite Passover prophet was a fire-breathing fundamentalist - I'm not inviting him to my next Seder. <br/><br/>2. The authors of the Book of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/Janeadams's%20review%0D%0Arecommended%20for:%20everyone%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AHere's%20what%20I%20learned%20from%20JEZEBEL,%20Leslie%20Hazelton's%20fascinating%20new%20book!%20%0D%0A1.%20My%20favorite%20Passover%20prophet%20was%20a%20fire-breathing%20fundamentalist%20-%20I'm%20not%20inviting%20him%20to%20my%20next%20Seder.%20%0D%0A%0D%0A2.%20The%20authors%20of%20the%20Book%20of%20Kings%20had%20a%20political%20agenda%20in%20portraying%20Jezebel%20as%20an%20evil%20harlot%20bent%20on%20destroying%20monotheism%20and%20the%20ruination%20of%20Israel.%20%0D%0A%0D%0A3.%20Far%20from%20being%20a%20Harlot,%20Jezebel%20was%20a%20vulnerable,%20virginal%20teenager%20forced%20into%20an%20arranged%20marriage%20to%20a%20foreign%20king.%20%0D%0A%0D%0A4.%20Hazelton%20breathes%20life%20into%20a%20misunderstood%20and%20badly%20maligned%20woman%20of%20the%20ninth%20century%20BC,%20just%20as%20she%20did%20in%20her%20previous%20book%20about%20Mary,%20mother%20of%20God.%20%0D%0A%0D%0A%20">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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