Where “Jezebel” best succeeds, though, is in highlighting the damage of fundamentalist campaigns. It didn’t stop with Elijah, or with Constantine’s Rome, or with the Spanish Inquisition.

Thrown from a window because of her “wicked” ways, Queen Jezebel is one of the few female villains of the Bible.

Elijah had called down fire from heaven, wiped out Jezebel's armies and outrun a chariot on foot in the middle of a long-overdue rainstorm when the queen came after him.

Elijah was flying about as high as a man could be. All by himself, he faced down King Ahab and Queen Jezebel and their 450 false prophets of Baal. God responded to Elijah’s pleas in as decisive ...

Her Elijah is a fanatic who “engineered the destruction of Israel” in pursuit of religious purity. Proving that Jezebel was no sexual reprobate is easy enough, said Sarah L. Courteau in The ...

St. Elijah is honored on July 20; he is the patron of the Carmelite Order and Vehicle Blessings.

But this fate is not unique to Jezebel: Elijah says that it will happen to “anyone belonging to Ahab.” Jezebel plays an active role in attempting to satisfy her husband’s greed, but the story is ...

Hillary Clinton praised Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) as someone who lived up to his Old Testament name by standing up against the “corrupt leadership of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel,” a line ...

Ahab’s second son Jehoram was then ousted from the throne in a bloody coup by a commander named Jehu, reportedly with Elijah’s assistance, while Queen Jezebel was thrown to her death and set ...