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Biblical Seductions: Six Stories Based on Talmud and Midrash
2011 National Jewish Book Award Finalist!!
Biblical Seductions retells six biblical stories of seduction, desperation, abduction, violence, and of unique human kindness. Illuminated through centuries of bold and sensitive Midrashic insight, these ancient tales of Lot and his Daughters, Dinah and Shechem, Judah and Tamar, David and Batsheva, Amnon and Tamar, and Ruth and Boaz, reemerge for the modern reader as timeless stories of lust, love, and survival.
Biblical Seductions retells six biblical stories of seduction, desperation, abduction, violence, and of unique human kindness. Illuminated through centuries of bold and sensitive Midrashic insight, these ancient tales of Lot and his Daughters, Dinah and Shechem, Judah and Tamar, David and Batsheva, Amnon and Tamar, and Ruth and Boaz, reemerge for the modern reader as timeless stories of lust, love, and survival.
638 pages, Paperback
First published February 28, 2011
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Sandra E. Rapoport
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I’m the author of BIBLICAL SEDUCTIONS, a Boston Globe Top-Ten Bestseller, and winner of the National Jewish Book Awards Finalist Prize. Biblical Seductions is my third book. My specialty is retelling the Bible’s stories through the lens of its female characters.
Biblical Seductions, a book in six parts, retells the stories of seven biblical women who become heroines because they take outrageous risks when life places them in desperate situations. These women “do whatever it takes” to survive, overcoming hopelessness, poverty, childlessness, even rape. A theme of Biblical Seductions is that even an ordinary woman can triumph against the worst odds. You might shed some tears, but you will be cheering at the book’s end.
I’m the author of BIBLICAL SEDUCTIONS, a Boston Globe Top-Ten Bestseller, and winner of the National Jewish Book Awards Finalist Prize. Biblical Seductions is my third book. My specialty is retelling the Bible’s stories through the lens of its female characters.
Biblical Seductions, a book in six parts, retells the stories of seven biblical women who become heroines because they take outrageous risks when life places them in desperate situations. These women “do whatever it takes” to survive, overcoming hopelessness, poverty, childlessness, even rape. A theme of Biblical Seductions is that even an ordinary woman can triumph against the worst odds. You might shed some tears, but you will be cheering at the book’s end.
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October 1, 2012
Highly repetitive in places and could use a much better editing job but provides some valuable insights on the "seduction" stories Rapoport has chosen (Lot's daughters, the rape of Dinah, Tamar and Judah, Bat-Sheva and David, Tamar's rape by Amnon, and Ruth and Boaz. I found the analysis of Ruth and Boaz particularly enlightening, providing some new perspective and tying all six stories together.
January 5, 2014
Just released as a Kindle e-book, Biblical Seductions, Pat 3: Judah and Tamar, is a fabulous story of a young woman's triumph over adversity. A great read! I highly recommend it.
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