Jezebel: Difference between revisions

[[Near East]]ern scholar Charles R. Krahmalkov proposed that [[Psalm 45]] records the wedding ceremony of Ahab and Jezebel,<ref>Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), ''A Phoenician-Punic Grammar'', page 2 </ref> but other scholars cast doubt on this association.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rogerson |first1=J. W. |author-link1=John W. Rogerson |last2=McKay |first2=John William |author-link2=John William McKay |date=1977 |title=Psalms 1–50 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mwY4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA213 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=213 |isbn=978-0-521-29160-6}}</ref> This marriage was the culmination of the friendly relations existing between Israel and Phoenicia during Omri's reign, and possibly cemented important political designs of Ahab. Jezebel, like the foreign wives of [[Solomon]], required facilities for carrying on her form of worship, so Ahab made a Baalist altar in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.<ref name=je>{{Cite webencyclopedia |title=JEZEBEL |url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8675-jezebel |encyclopedia=[[The Jewish Encyclopedia]]}}</ref> [[Geoffrey W. Bromiley|Geoffrey Bromiley]] points out that it was Phoenician practice to install a royal woman as a priestess of [[Astarte]], thus she would have a more active role in temple and palace relations than was customary in the Hebrew monarchy.<ref name="Bromiley">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yklDk6Vv0l4C&q=jezebel+bible&pg=PA1058|title=The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia|first=Geoffrey W.|last=Bromiley|date=28 August 1979|publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing|via=Google Books|isbn=978-0-8028-3782-0}}</ref>