IEJ Article: Not Biblical Jezebel

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Our March/April 2008 issue featured an article by Dutch scholar Marjo C.A. Korpel on an unprovenanced seal initially published by Israeli archaeologist Nahman Avigad that Korpel reconstructed as the seal of the Biblical queen Jezebel.a This was followed by a robust debate, first in our May/June issue and then in our July/August issue, in the latter of which Korpel answered her critics led by American paleographer Christopher A. Rollston. Rollston has now published an article in the Israel Exploration Journal reiterating and expanding his arguments.1 Rollston concludes, “Korpel’s proposal is interesting, but the evidence cannot carry the weight with […]

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Footnotes

See Marjo C.A. Korpel, “Fit for a Queen: Jezebel’s Royal Seal,” BAR 34:02, and Queries and Comments, BAR 34:03 and Queries and Comments, BAR 34:04.

Endnotes

Christopher Rollston, “Prosopography and the yzbl Seal,” IEJ 59, no. 1 (2009).