(george athas wrote)
>Take the name Jezebel (Iy-zebel) - I don't think a queen would have
>really had such a name. It's probably been changed to reflect a value
>judgment of the writer's ideology.
with 'i' 'coast/island' and 'honorable' names like zvulun, what's wrong
with i-zevul/izevel?
'island of Honor' for the daughter of the king of tyre?
granted it may also have been punned: heb: zevel, arab: zibl //--dung. (cf
2K9.37)