“Jezebel, A Great-Grandmother of Jesus”
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Claude Mariottini
Emeritus Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist Seminary
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Those Amazing Women of Ancient Israel
CONTENTS
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1 Those Amazing Women of Ancient Israel
Part 1
Israel’s Social Concern for Women
Chapter 2 Israel’s Concern for Women
Chapter 3 The Status of Women in Israelite Society
Chapter 4 The Deuteronomic Concern for Women
Chapter 5 The Tenth Commandment (Deuteronomy 5:21)
Chapter 6 The Law of the Hebrew Slave
Part 2
Women Prophets
Chapter 7 Women Prophets in the Old Testament
Chapter 8 Miriam the Prophetess
Chapter 9 Deborah the Prophetess
Chapter 10 Isaiah’s Wife
Chapter 11 Huldah, A Prophet in Israel
Chapter 12 Noadiah the Prophetess
Chapter 13 The Nameless Prophetesses in the Book of Ezekiel
Chapter 14 The Seven Prophetesses of the Old Testament
Chapter 15 Women Who Proclaim the Good News
Chapter 16 The Daughters of Heman
Chapter 17 “Your Daughters Shall Prophesy”
Part 3
The Mothers of Israel
Chapter 18 Sarah: A Mother in Her Old Age
Chapter 19 Hagar: The Surrogate Mother
Chapter 20 Rachel: The Struggles of a Barren Woman
Chapter 21 Moses’s Two Mothers
Chapter 22 Sisera’s Mother: The Humanization of the Enemy
Chapter 23 Samson’s Mother: A Mother’s Disappointment
Chapter 24 Hannah: “The Barren Has Borne Seven”
Chapter 25 Rizpah: Reflections on a Mother’s Love
Chapter 26 Bathsheba: A Mother with Determination
Chapter 27 Solomon and the Two Mothers
Chapter 28 Jeroboam’s Wife: A Mother’s Agony
Chapter 29 Jesus’s Great-Grandmothers
Chapter 30 The Other Great-Grandmothers of Jesus
Chapter 31 Jezebel: A Great-Grandmother of Jesus
Chapter 32 The Genealogy of Jesus According to His Great-Grandmothers
Part 4
Abused Women
Chapter 33 Dinah, the Daughter of Jacob
Chapter 34 Tamar, the Wife of Er
Chapter 35 The Levite’s Concubine
Chapter 36 Bathsheba, the Wife of Uriah
Chapter 37 Tamar, the Daughter of David
Part 5
Women of Distinction
Chapter 38 Rahab: A Prostitute or an Innkeeper?
Chapter 39 Deborah, A Judge in Israel
Chapter 40 Jael: A Heroine in Israel
Chapter 41 Ruth, the Moabite
Chapter 42 Ahinoam, the Mother of Amnon
Chapter 43 Abishag, the Shunammite
Chapter 44 The Greatness That Was Jezebel
Chapter 45 Esther, the Queen of Persia
Bibliography
Index of Scriptures
Index of Authors
Index of Subjects
Index of Hebrew Words
I hope you will enjoy reading the book and develop a new appreciation for these amazing women of Ancient Israel.
Claude Mariottini
Emeritus Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist Seminary
Posts on Jesus’ Great-Grandmothers:
1. The Great-Grandmothers of Jesus
3. The Other Great-Grandmothers of Jesus
4. Jezebel, A Great-Grandmother of Jesus
5. The Genealogy of Jesus According to His Great-Grandmothers
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Hello from your student of yrs. 1997-2001 (wow, can you believe it’s that long ago!!!) and fellow Jeremiah fan. I always loved how you enjoyed getting a rise out of fundamentalists, hagiographers and others who don’t like anyone messing with their my way or the “Hell in a Handbasket” Highway interpretations of the Bible. Also appreciated how you stood up for and supported women in ministry and the women in the Bible who have never gotten a fair hearing or appropriate recognition, generally from the same bunch listed above. I’m sure they’ll want to burn you at the stake yet again for exposing Jesus’ “dirty little secrets” but as you say, it’s one of those very things that reveal He is “the Messiah for all people.” Keep up the good inciting Claude!
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Carlene,
It has been a long time since you were in my classes. I always appreciated your good work. There are many things people do not know about Jezebel, the most important thing is that she was a great-grandmother of Jesus. This shows that even bad people can have some good in them.
It was nice hearing from you again.
Claude Mariottini
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Jezebel and her daughter Athaliah were great grandmothers of Jesus’ earthly father, Joseph.
Jesus had no blood line that tied him to these 2 women.
Jesus’ bloodline was from Nathan, son of King David.
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Jenjen,
Your interpretation of the biblical text is not correct. You need to go back and study again the genealogies of the kings of Judah.
Thank you for your comment.
Claude Mariottini
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