Wicked Women of the Bible Melinda Stein

The “Good Book” actually contains its share of not-so-good characters, many of them women. This course examines an assortment of these figures, ranging from Jezebel and Delilah, from Potiphar’s wife to Salome—to name just a few. Right down to chapter and verse, the Bible is the source for this panoply of scandalous stories about wicked women.

Melinda Stein grew up in Brooklyn and attended Brooklyn College. She made her home in Savannah in the early 1970s, and she has taught on a multitude of topics including the history of Judaism and Zionism and the Bible as literature.