This woodcut by French artist Gustave Dore (1832-1883) shows Queen Athaliah of Judah being executed by palace guards to clear the young Joash’s ascension to the throne. Athaliah ruled the southern ...

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Some were heretics and others heroes, but these royal women all took center stage in some of the most important stories in the Old Testament. Bathsheba, Jezebel, Athaliah, and Esther are all ...

Aug. 13—The only woman to rule ancient Judah was Athaliah, who may have been the daughter of the wicked King Ahab and Queen Jezebel. Queen from 841 to 836 B.C., Athaliah left a baleful record of idol ...