It is also the view of Eastern Orthodox theologian David Bentley Hart, who writes that “in most of the Old Testament” the God of Israel is “presented as quite evil: a blood-drenched, cruel ...

A Phoenician princess—and not an adherent of the Hebrew faith—Jezebel becomes the wife of Omri’s son and successor, King Ahab, who reigned in the northern kingdom of Israel circa 874 B.C.