“How Bad Was Jezebel Then?”
Janet is a specialist in the Bible as literature in the Department of English at the University of New Mexico. As we will see, Janet sees the Bible as very fanciful literature that gives poor old Jezebel a bad shake. You might say that there is Jezebel, and then there is Janet’s Jezebel. “For more than two thousand years, Jezebel has been saddled with a reputation as the bad girl of the Bible, the wickedest…