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eth Weinstein watched his
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uthor Lesley Hazelton's
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Queen (Doubleday; $24.95), is a fas-
cinating illustration of revisionist
history at its best. It is most advanta-
geously read alongside the few pages
in I and II Kings that mention Jezebel.
Based on those laconic references, her
own translations, the archaeologi-
cal evidence, her travels to the places
named and, perhaps most of all, her
fertile imagination, Hazelton has
reconstructed the story of the Bible's
most famous femme fatale.
Instead of being a nasty character,
Jezebel, according to Hazelton, is a
worthy opponent of the prophet Elijah,
depicted by Hazelton as a militant
murderer. To build up Jezebel and to
tear down Elijah is a daunting task,
but Hazelton goes a long way toward
achieving her objective.
She brings impressive credentials
to the mission she has set for herself.
In 1978, she wrote a book on Israeli

women that debunked the image
of their equal status; in 2005, she
rewrote the life of Mary, mother of
Jesus. Hazelton studied at the Hebrew
University and lived in Israel for a
number of years, writing for Time,
the New York Times, Vanity Fair, the
Nation, the New Republic and the New
York Review of Books.
I Kings has 22 chapters. It is not
until Chapter 16 that Jezebel is men-
tioned as the wife of Israel's King
Ahab and the daughter of Ithbaal,
king of the Phoenicians. Although the
Bible says nothing more about this
marriage, Hazelton spells out its com-
mercial nature. As a trading state, the
Phoenicians used the wedding to gain
access to other markets through this
new association with Israel.
In I Kings, Elijah enters the scene
and tells Ahab, who has "vexed the
Lord," that there will be no rain "except
at my bidding."
According to Hazelton, Elijah's
dictate is based on his anger about
Jezebel's priests and priestesses as well
as the "ostentatious luxury" he sees,
but this rationale is not supported