The presence of the female in the divine was simply an unthinkable state to the followers of Yahweh at this time, as it is to the followers of the three Yahweh based religions today. Ironically, the murders of all of Ahab’s family by the followers of Yahweh led to Ahab and Jezebel’s daughter, Athaliah, becoming Queen of Judah…but that’s another bloody story. The Bible calls her a witch and a harlot but there is really no evidence of this, even in the massive smear campaign waged against her. Also, would have been nice if you had mentioned Athaliah, the Queen regnant, as example for the monarchs period as you mentioned Judge-Prophetess Deborah for the judges period. The best-known excavations of the site date from 1908 to 1910 and then again in the 1930’s. Since different deities fell in and out of favour it is more than reasonable that Baal was major at the time of the King EthBAAL, given that the most reliable source names him as Baal's high priest.Pure speculation from somebody who writes from the perspective of a pissed off 8th grade girl who has issues with Judaism and male dominance in ancient society. Jezebel, knowing she was about to be killed, did not run. Athaliah (Hebrew: עֲתַלְיָה, ʻAtalya; Greek: Γοθολία; Latin: Athalia) was the daughter of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel of Israel, the queen consort of Judah as the wife of King Jehoram, a descendant of King David, and later queen regnant c. 841–835 BC. This was the first of many mistakes in this piece of trash article.What utter garbage!
There is never any evidence that she was not loyal to him, even after his death. The owner of the vineyard, a man named Naboth, refuses to sell or trade his vineyard, even for something worth more, since he inherited the land from his father and Israelite law declared that he should keep it forever. Instead, she prepared for Jehu’s arrival by putting kohl around her eyes, dressing her hair and preparing to exit the world as a queen and a high priestess. The Bible purposefully skirts the issue of the worship of the Goddess as the prime religion at the time, consistently referring to Baal as the major deity when that was not the case; indeed Baal is the consort of Astarte, who dies every year and is then reborn, and holidays of grief and celebration commemorated this yearly cycle; does this story sound familiar? But what does it mean?In an underwater investigation in Fuxian Lake, Yunnan Province, China, started on June 13, 2006, archeologists discovered remains of a group of huge ancient buildings at the bottom of the lake. How could a mere woman challenge such men of God? Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel...As social media is abuzz with who might be cast in the next Batman movie, with concerns that some of the candidates might not be menacing enough to fill those big black boots, it might be time to...The plague doctor mask is one of the most recognizable symbols of the Black Death. In the sixth year of Athaliah’s rule, Jehoiada carried out his plot. We seek to retell the story of our beginnings. God invented government; man is to reign in high places especially in church affairs and political spheres and the woman helps the man not the other way around…this is Yahweh’s kingship hierarchy both in the Old and New testaments.The deeds that Athaliah committed or ordered committed were not feminine in and of themselves…they were just evil. But what was it really that caused such a reaction from the followers of Yahweh? While Athaliah ruled the kingdom he plotted her assassination in order to place the young king Joash back on the throne. This tale begins with her husband King Ahab wanting to buy his neighbors vineyard so the King can make a vegetable garden…yes a vegetable garden. Her husband had died earlier of intestinal disease. Ahab died from wounds he received in battle after ruling from 874 to 853 BC. I, of course, do not doubt that something as petty as this could be true, the Bible is full of such stories; this one however is weaker than most. Soon after their marriage, Ahab built a “house of ivory” for Jezebel to honor her deities, and this gift from a husband to his bride has long been used as an example of his weakness concerning his wife and the opulence of the pagans, not as a beautiful gesture to make a young woman far from her home feel welcome. King Jehoram married Queen Athaliah and became associated with the family of Ahab. She was the most depraved of women, a murderess, … The followers of Yahweh were, however, determined to bring about the end of all religions except theirs by whatever means necessary. No one spoke up to defend a man who they had probably known his entire life and who was completely within his rights to refuse the sale. When she went down to observe what was happening, Jehoiada ordered his soldiers to assassinate her and anyone who followed her.
This description of the mass murder of 850 people is very specific, unlike the vague reference to Jezebel ordering the cutting off of some of the prophets of Yahweh, yet no one seems to see Elijah’s acts as disgusting.