This morning I typed “Athaliah” into the religious academic periodical search engine, that being a seminary graduate gives me, just to see what might come up. I discovered that one significant unresolved question is who was Athaliah’s father. She is identified as the daughter of Omri, king of Israel,[1] the northern kingdom that refused to submit to Solomon’s son Rehoboam when Solomon died.[2] Athaliah is also identified as the daughter of Omri’s son and successor, Ahab[3]—the Ahab, whose wife was Jezebel. I think it’s fair to say that issue is unresolvable.[4]
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