66. Jezebel: Does She Deserve Her Bad Reputation?
The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes - Philippe Guillaume
Kristin Joachimsen [+ ]
Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society
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Kristin Joachimsen is Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at MF-Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society. She is the author of Identities in Transition: The Pursuit of Isa. 52:13-53:12 (Brill 2011). Her current research focuses on prophetic and poetic literature, as well as the books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther. Theoretically, she elaborates on topics like historiography, identity, cultural imagination, and perspectives taken from postcolonial and gender studies. She is the initiator and PI of the interdisciplinary research project Perception and Reception of Persia (PERSIAS).
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Using the trope of the dangerous foreign woman, Jezebel’s story is part of a larger discussion of Israel’s relation to its neighbors and the worship of deities other than Yhwh.