Gilead: Meaning in Place: 54

There Might Be Cupcakes Podcast

In which Carla investigates why the place in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale is called Gilead.
Books referenced:
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood: https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780385490818
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood: https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780385543781
The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel by Margaret Atwood and Renee Nault: https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780385539241
Sources:
Easton’s Bible Dictionary: https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781547199501
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: https://amzn.to/3aK6Kwx
The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha (NRSV): https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780190276089
The Center for Judaic Studies, Lawrence E. Stager: The Song of Deborah: http://cojs.org/the-song-of-deborah/
Who was Jezebel?: https://www.christianity.com/wiki/people/who-was-jezebel-in-the-bible-what-was-she-really-like.html
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