Did Jezebel Murder Naboth? A 3,000-Year-Old Murder Mystery

Episode 6: Jezebel has been described as the most-hated woman in the Bible, and to this day her name is used as a racist stereotype by some and as an anti-feminist slur by others. Does she deserve this ignominy? When we examine Naboth's murder in 1 Kings 21, which is the story most responsible for her reputation, we discover that the facts are not so simple.

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Contents
0:00 Prologue
1:36 Archaeological background
3:24 The murder of Naboth
7:34 How the books of Kings were written
9:56 Examining the crime scene
13:26 Oracle, shmoracle
18:20 More oracles and the death of Jezebel
22:54 The source of the Naboth murder plot
25:21 In search of the historical Jezebel
27:33 Another voice from the wilderness
28:43 Easter egg

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Academic sources and works cited
⦾ Cronauer, Patrick T. (2005). The Stories about Naboth the Jezreelite.
⦾ McKenzie, Steven L. (1991). The Trouble With Kings: The Composition of the Book of Kings in the Deuteronomistic History.
⦾ McKenzie, Steven L. (2000). The Oracles against the Dynasties in the Book of Kings, in Gary N. Knoppers and J. Gordon McConville, ed. Reconsidering Israel and Judah: Recent Studies on the Deuteronomistic History.
⦾ McKenzie, Steven L. (2014). “My God is Yhwh”: The Composition of the Elijah Stories in 1–2 Kings. Congress Volume Munich 2013.
⦾ Robker, Jonathan Miles (2012). The Jehu Revolution:  A Royal Tradition of the Northern Kingdom and Its Ramifications.
⦾ Miller, J.M. (1967). The Fall of the House of Ahab. Vetus Testamentum, 17(3).
⦾ Bench, Clayton (2015). Naboth’s Vineyard, Ahab, and Jezebel: New Insights on the Composition History of 1 Kings 21 and Related Texts.
⦾ White, Marsha (1997). The Elijah Legends and Jehu’s Coup.
⦾ Frost, S.B. (1964). Judgment on Jezebel, or A Woman Wronged. Theology Today, 20(4).

Music by Fesliyan Studios and Scott Buckley (www.scottbuckley.com.au)

Special thanks to John Kesler for consultation and advice.