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Jezebel (False Prophet)

20 But I have this against you: you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet and is teaching and beguiling my servants to practice fornication and to eat food sacrificed to idols. 

Revelation 2:20-23

List of Reading & Resources:

Articles

  •  "Jezebel of Thyatira: A Female False Prophet" by Marg Mowczko

  • "Feminist Interpretations of Apocalyptic Symbols" by Miyon Chung

Books

  • "Jezebel Speaks: Naming the Goddesses in the Book of Relevation" by Mary Ann Beavis in A Feminist Companion to the Apocalypse of John edited by Amy-Jill Levine and Maria Mayo Robbins (2010)

  • Reframing Her: Biblical Women in Postcolonial Focus by Judith E. McKinlay (2004)

  • Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion & Culture by Tamura Lomax (2018)

  • "Antitypes, Stereotypes, and Antetypes: Jezebel, the Sun Woman, and Contemporary Black Women" by Love L. Sechrest in Womanist Interpretations of the Bible: Expanding the Discourse by Gay L. Byron and Vanessa Lovelace (2016)

  • "Revelation/Apocalypse of John" by Tina Pippin in Women’s Bible Commentary, edited by Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. Ringe, and Jacqueline E. Lapsley (2012)

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This project has been created by Founder and Executive Director Debbie McLeod alongside a team of Yale-educated researchers: Anna Grace Glaize, McKenzie Brummond, Moriah Asch, Brian Peterson, Laura Traverse, Phoebe Oler, and Sarah Ambrose

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