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Headword: Iezabel
Adler number: iota,144
Translated headword: Jezebel
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Wife of king Ahab, a woman daring and rash, she displayed such impiety and madness as even to establish a shrine of the god of the Tyrians and Sidonians. Ahab himself, too, surpassed his predecessors in folly and wickedness.[1]
The prophet Elijah was a contemporary of these people.
Greek Original:
Iezabel, gunê tou Achaab basileôs, gunaion drastêrion kai tolmêron, eis tosautên asebeian kai manian proepesen hôste kai naon tôi Turiôn kai Sidôniôn theôi kataskeuasai. kai autos de ho Achaab anoiai kai ponêriai pantas tous pro hautou huperbebêken. epi toutôn ên Êlias ho prophêtês.
Notes:
See also iota 145.
[1] Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 8.318 (web address 1). For Ahab see generally alpha 4667.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; chronology; ethics; gender and sexuality; geography; historiography; religion; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 24 October 2004@07:20:14.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added link, set status) on 25 October 2004@02:04:20.
David Whitehead (x-ref) on 25 October 2004@03:33:24.
Catharine Roth (tweaked link) on 10 August 2011@22:09:41.
David Whitehead on 9 January 2013@05:31:52.
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