Ep. 10: Bury Your Queens, Pt. 1

We made it to ten, gang! And we've mostly made it out of the Bronze Age Collapse. In this, my first completely solo episode, the Bible gets its earliest confirmed real characters who existed outside of legend, but it's not all sunshine and roses as we immediately confront three women who get a pretty unfair rap in the book of Kings: Ma'acah, Asherah, and Jezebel. Check out my Instagram account for this week's accompanying post, which includes archaeological images and a map of West Asia in the early Iron Age. Support the show, subscribe on Patreon: https://patreon.com/biblelorepodcast https://www.instagram.com/haydentank/   Bibliography: Christian Frevel - 'History of Ancient Israel';  Mario Liverani - 'Israel's History and the History of Israel';  Finkelstein & Silberman - 'The Bible Unearthed';  Israel Finkelstein - 'The Forgotten Kingdom';  Theodore J. Lewis - 'The Origin and Character of God';  Marc van de Mieroop - 'A History of the Ancient Near East';  Francesca Stavrakopoulou - 'God: An Anatomy';  Robert Alter - 'The Hebrew Bible: A Translation With Commentary';  Emanuel Pfoh - 'The Emergence of Israel in Ancient Palestine';  Benjamin Sommer - 'The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel' Andrew Tobolowsky - 'The Sons of Jacob and the Sons of Herakles';  William Dever - 'Did God Have A Wife?';  Susan Ackerman - 'Warrior, Dancer, Seductress, Queen';  Susan Ackerman - 'Gods, Goddesses, and the Women Who Serve Them';  Coogan & Smith - 'Stories from Ancient Canaan';  Rashid Khalidi - 'The 100 Years' War on Palestine';  Raanan Eichler - 'Aaron's Flowering Staff: A Priestly Asherah?';  John Day - 'The Table of Nations: The Geography of the World in Genesis 10';  Other Bible quotations taken from the NRSVue and the NJPS with adaptations