Ahab and Jezebel, one of the Bible's most 'colorful' couples

Redlands Daily Facts | February 1, 2007 | Copyright

The professor continues this week with his series of articles on Great Villains of the Bible. Previously we have discussed Judas and Caiaphas. This week: evil King Ahab and his provocative wife, Jezebel.

To mention the name Ahab today is to conjure up at best the image of Herman Melville's lead character in "Moby Dick," the doomed captain in search of the great white whale. But the whale hunter was himself named for a particularly colorful character from the Hebrew Bible, whom the sacred text denounces as doing "more evil in the sight of the Lord than all who were before him," (I Kings ...

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