Friday, May 9, 2008 

MANCHESTER — Come to the Israel Congregation of Manchester's Center of Learning to hear a talk about the real Jezebel, Queen of Israel, Tuesday, May 13 at 7 p.m.

One of the most famous queens of ancient Israel is Jezebel, daughter of the Phoenician king Ethbaal, wife of Israelite King Ahab (872­851 B.C.E.) and archetype of the wicked woman. Jezebel's influence on her husband, King Ahab, was enormous. As the Biblical text puts it: "There was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited" (1 Kings 21:25). She never gave up her Phoenician religion nor her devotion to Baal. Ahab sinned not only by taking a worshipper of Baal for his wife, but, at her urging he, too, worshiped Baal (1 Kings 16:31).

For more information, contact Paul M. Ross at 325-2159.


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