Jezebel: Whore-queen of Israel

Jezebel was a Phoenician princess who married Jewish king Ahab and persuaded him to abandon his religion and worship Baal. She is remembered for causing great suffering as queen, persecuting Jews who refused to betray their faith, holding wild orgies, encouraging human sacrifice, and decking herself out in makeup and jewelery like a prostitute while the people suffered through famine and war. Eventually her tyranny was too much to bear and she was thrown out of the window by her own servants and her corpse eaten by the dogs
Was Jezebel as wicked as the bible claims or was her bad reputation created to discredit a powerful proto-feminist who challenged the patriarchal religious-based hierarchy?

Women are oft accused of changing the religion of their husband. It has happened often in my family, and it became at one time, it seems, a breaking point when religious affiliation became a more attractive proposition than familial.

Such is life, and such is just how far a man will go to please a "good" wife!

Regards,

Agreed, but Phoenician women were known for their excessive beauty mind you...

Eve manipulates and leads Adam into temptation , and Jezebel does the same to Ahab, quite a theme the bible has there. 

Edited by TheAlaniDragonRising - 16-May-2011 at 20:29

And, just who/whom is to decide if she was really evil? Can any of us question the source?

I sort of like her and resent her violent death.

Originally posted by opuslola And, just who/whom is to decide if she was really evil? Can any of us question the source? I sort of like her and resent her violent death.

Out of interest Ron, what exactly do you like about her?

True but not as many get the rep that Jezebel got. We are in reference to Hebrews here I presume.

Can we actually trust the bible to be telling the truth though, and not just some moral story.

Nick asked above;

Out of interest Ron, what exactly do you like about her?"

Well Nick, if I might well be a little risque?, it seems from the painting shown above, "She looks good going down?"

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Was Cleopatra the Seventh,described as Jezebel?Rome created stereotype,for queen-whore character.This one was implanted inside new religion with features that had belonged to ancient enemy queen of Rome.
(My post about it i found in other topic:hand of God or administrator intervention?)