Astarte, his feminine counterpart, was the fertility of man, beast, and field. He embraced Baal worship as a matter of state policy and understood its political advantages.įor the Phoenicians, Baal was the sun and the storm, the masculine side of Nature. To keep his foreign wives happy, he built shrines for their gods and even worshipped their idols himself.
He had married 700 princesses (and 300 concubines) in his program to secure geopolitical stability. Solomon had set the precedent sixty years earlier. Their marriage sealed a political and economic pact between their two nations. The marriage was part of a foreign alliance.
Leslie Hazleton, Jezebel: The Untold Story (2007)
She was a powerful, complex woman whose courage and dignity even her fiercest detractors would have no option but to acknowledge. Elijah Baley in Isaac Asimov’s Caves of Steel (1954) In a moment of irritation I insisted that the historic Jezebel was not particularly wicked and was, if anything, a good wife.
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