LESLEY HAZLETON
Wednesday, November 7 at 7 p.m. at Seattle First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard Avenue

Presented as part of the Seattle Spiritual Synthesis Series with Seattle First Baptist Church. Whether writing of the contemporary or the deeply historical, Seattle's Lesley Hazleton has long been adept at insightfully making strong connections. She goes from one great woman of the Bible in her most recent previous book (Mary: A Flesh-and-Blood Biography of the Virgin Mother) to another in her newest, Jezebel: The Untold Story of the Bible's Harlot Queen (Doubleday). "Lesley Hazleton makes Jezebel our contemporary, and turns the ninth century B.C. into a prophetic mirror of our twenty-first century religiopolitical wars. In a feat of nonfiction magical realism, she brilliantly collapses the worlds of now and then into one realm, where Jezebel and Elijah effortlessly rub shoulders with Ehud Olmert and Sheik Hassan Nasrallah...The book is endlessly informative...It is also great fun." – Jonathan Raban. Admission is free (no tickets). Seattle First Baptist Church is located at 1111 Harvard Avenue (at Union) on Seattle's First Hill. For more information on this evening, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600.

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