Lady Danger: Jezebel
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Resources for this episode
Melissa Archer, “The S/spirit of Jezebel and the Spirit of Prophecy: A Pentecostal Reading of Revelation 2:18–29.” Pneuma 44 (2022): 159–82.
Eileen Berrington & Päivi Honkatukia, “An Evil Monster and a Poor Thing: Female Violence in the Media.” Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention 3, no. 1 (2002): 50–72.
Athalya Brenner, “Jezebel: Bible.” Jewish Women’s Archive. https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/jezebel-bible
Bradley L. Crowell. “Good Girl, Bad Girl: Foreign Women of the Deuteronomistic History in Postcolonial Perspective.” Biblical Interpretation 21, no. 1 (2013): 1–11.
Janet S. Everhart, “Jezebel: Framed by Eunuchs?” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 72 (2010): 688–98.
Wilda C. Gafney, Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne. Westminster John Knox Press, 2017.
Janet Howe Gaines, “How Bad Was Jezebel?” Biblical History Daily, 1 April 2023. https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/people-in-the-bible/how-bad-was-jezebel/
Else Holt, “‘Urged On by His Wife Jezebel’: A Literary Reading of 1 Kgs 18 in Context,” JSOT 9 (1995) 83-96.
Melissa Jackson, Comedy and Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible: A Subversive Collaboration. Oxford University Press, 2012.
Helena Kennedy, Misjustice: How British Law is Failing Women. Vintage, 2019.
Leath, Jennifer S. ‘Revising Jezebel Politics: Towards a New Black Sexual Ethic’ in Black Intersectionalities: A Critique for the 21st Century, 195–210. Liverpool University Press, 2017.
Mark McEntire, “Cozbi, Achan, and Jezebel: Executions in the Hebrew Bible and Modern Lynching.” Review and Expositor 118, no. 1 ( 2021): 21–31.
Judith E. McKinley, “Negotiating the Frame for Viewing the Death of Jezebel.” Biblical Interpretation 10, no. 3 (2002): 305–23.
Jonathan O’Donnell, “The Body Politic(s) of the Jezebel Spirit.” Religion & Gender 7, no. 2 (2017), 240–55. https://brill.com/downloadpdf/journals/rag/7/2/article-p240_7.xml
David Pilgrim, “The Jezebel Stereotype.” Jim Crow Museum. https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/jezebel/index.htm
Phyllis Trible, “Exegesis for Storytellers and Other Strangers.” Journal of Biblical Literature 114, no. 1 (1995): 3–19.
Robyn J. Whitaker, “Invoking Jezebel, Invoking Terror: The Threat of Sexual Violence in the Apocalypse to John.” In Terror in the Bible: Rhetoric, Gender, and Violence, ed. Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon and Robyn J. Whitaker, 107–120. SBL, 2021.
“Black Girl Gone” podcast https://blackgirlgonepodcast.com/
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