{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"#64: Stacy Davis \u2013 Who was Jezebel?","description":"The Bible is full of vivid, fascinating characters: heroes and antiheroes, tricksters and villains. One of the most memorable biblical villains is Queen Jezebel, wife of King Ahab in Kings 1 and 2. Jezebel shows up in multiple stories: persecuting the prophet Elijah, trying to institute the worship of the god Ba\u2019al, conniving to steal a vineyard, and finally dying a gruesome death. She is mentioned in the book of Revelation, too, when the author refers to a woman in the church at Thyatira who \u201ccalls herself a prophet and is teaching and beguiling my servants to engage in sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols\u201d (Rev. 2:20).   Because she lured her husband to worship a false god, and because she is remembered as wearing makeup and finery, she has come to be associated with ideas about women as dangerous, immoral temptresses. The name \u201cJezebel\u201d has become a slur for a promiscuous woman who leads men astray, and this slur has been used especially to demean and demonize Black women.   But who was Jezebel really? Was she the sexually promiscuous character these slurs imply, and why does scripture depict her as a super-villain?    On this episode of Glad You Asked, theologian and biblical scholar Stacy Davis talks to the host about the character Jezebel and the history of using her as a weapon against Black women. Davis is a professor of religious studies and Theology at Saint Mary\u2019s College in Notre Dame, Indiana, and the author of Haggai and Malachi in the Wisdom Commentary Series (Liturgical Press). She is an associate editor of The Africana Bible: Reading Israel\u2019s Scriptures from Africa and the African Diaspora, as well as for the forthcoming Westminster John Knox Bible.   You can learn more about this topic in these links: \u201cJezebel from an African-American Perspective,\u201d by Stacy Davis  whc.bibleodyssey.com \u201cThe Jezebel Stereotype,\u201d by David Pilgrim The Jezebel Stereotype - Anti-black Imagery - Jim Crow Museum \u201cWho Exactly Was the Original Jezebel?\u201d by Wednesday Martin Who Exactly Was the Original Jezebel? \u2039 Literary Hub \u201cJezebel Isn\u2019t Who You Think She Is,\u201d by Nyasha Junior Jezebel Isn\u2019t Who You Think She Is - Dame Magazine \u201cNaming the 333 women in the Bible,\u201d by Alice Camille Naming the 333 women in the Bible - U.S. Catholic   Glad You Asked is sponsored by the Claretian Missionaries. ","author_name":"Glad You Asked","author_url":"https:\/\/uscatholic.org\/gyapodcast","html":"