The Curse of Jezebel

by Frank G. Slaughter

Jezebel

Genres: Historical Fiction, Historical, Fiction, Christian

295 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1961

About the author

Frank Gill Slaughter , pen-name Frank G. Slaughter, pseudonym C.V. Terry, was an American novelist and physician whose books sold more than 60 million copies. His novels drew on his own experience as a doctor and his interest in history and the Bible. Through his novels, he often introduced readers to new findings in medical research and new medical technologies.

Slaughter was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Stephen Lucious Slaughter and Sarah "Sallie" Nicholson Gill. When he was about five years old, his family moved to a farm near Berea, North Carolina, which is west of Oxford, North Carolina. He earned a bachelor's degree from Trinity College (now Duke University) at 17 and went to medical school at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He began writing fiction in 1935 while a physician at Riverside Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida.

Books by Slaughter include The Purple Quest, Surgeon, U.S.A., Epidemic! , Tomorrow's Miracle and The Scarlet Cord. Slaughter died May 17, 2001 in Jacksonville, Florida.

Reviews

[Jo-Ann Murphy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a very well told fictionalized account of the Biblical story of Jezebel. For anyone interested in the Biblical stories written in a more understandable way, they should enjoy this version. The author gave us many exciting battle scenes.

It also points out that the more things change, the more they remain the same. The parallels to our present current events are striking. The men can't keep their organs in their pants and it is the women who are blamed for bewitching them and need to be punished and suffer the consequences all in the name of God.

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

this book is a detailed view on a bible story. it was a good read, more of a military kind of read.

[Philippe Jonquet · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent. I like some of the author's biblical insight.

[Ann · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ties into my reading of the Four Prophets. Slaughter took the few bits of info we have available about the early times of the prophets and fantasized a whole book out of it, as usual. Because he had a lot of info about the battles, we got a lot of info about the battles.

[Christine Howard · Rating 4 out of 5]

Although published in 1961 this biblical story as the author treated it is a great read. It makes the story of Jezebel come alive.