Eighty years after the death of King Solomon, and more than eight hundred years before Jesus, Queen Athaliah reigned in Jerusalem. The daughter of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, Athaliah was the only woman in the Bible ever to reign as queen in her own right in Judah, the Southern Kingdom. The biblical texts, traditional commentators, and scholars all remember her - when they mention her at all - as a bloodthirsty tyrant. Yet a closer look gives a more complex picture, and this novel takes an unconventional view of a fascinating woman and her turbulent times. Jezebel's Daughter explores the period when the worship, the politics, and the people of the land that gave us the world's great monotheisms were in flux, and draws a portrait of the woman without whom the tides of history might have washed away their foundation.
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Rosenbaum has produced a fascinating tale... of a strong and sensible woman in a male-dominated environment.... -- Nehama Aschkenasy, author of Woman at the Window, Biblical Tales of Oppression and Escape and Eve's Journey: Feminist Images in Hebraic Literary Tradition
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Mary Helene Rosenbaum is executive director of the Dove-tail Institute for Interfaith Family Resources and editor of Dovetail: A Journal by and for Jewish/Christian Families and of Shalom, the newspaper of the Central Kentucky Jewish Federation. She has published articles on religious topics ranging from euthanasia to the spiritual vision of Stephen King. She is the author of A Seal Upon The Heart, released in 2007 by Blue Grape Press, LLC. With her husband, Prof. Stanley Ned Rosenbaum, she also co-authored Celebrating Our Differences: Living Two Faiths in One Marriage (Ship pensburg, PA: Ragged Edge Press, 1994).
The Rosenbaums, who live in rural Kentucky, have three adult children and four grandchildren.
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