A review by bucket
Jezebel: The Untold Story Of The Bible's Harlot Queen by Lesley Hazleton

4.0

This book was extremely easy to read and contained a lot of interesting well-researched information without being dry. In fact, much of the writing was full of emotion. I thought that there would be more about Jezebel here (Elijah, especially, and also King Ahab got just as much focus; both were also recast as being different than we think). However, it didn't really bother me that the book was a description of the whole history of Israel from Jezebel's marriage until her death and even a little after because it was extremely interesting. I was especially interested to read towards the end about the Israelites' creation of monotheism while in exile.

Themes: Jezebel, biblical/ancient history, dogs as lowest of the low, harlot=infidel, not prostitute, unreliability of ancient texts, Israel, birth of monotheism, warfare, royalty