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AFTER THE APPLE
Women in the Bible: Timeless Stories of Lust. Love and Longing
By
Naomi Harris Rosenblatt
Review by
Jonathan Burnham, Former President Miramax Books
An illuminating retelling of the stories of the women of the Hebrew Bible: a
prism through which we can examine our own lives.
Leah, Rachel, Sarah, Delilah, Jezebel…the names of these Hebrew Bible women have
been familiar to us since childhood. In this remarkable book, Biblical scholar
Naomi Harris Rosenblatt injects new life into these characters, retelling their
stories in loving detail, and bringing to them her expertise as a
psychotherapist, as well as her profound Biblical knowledge. Through her lens,
we revisit these women—and their men—and view them with a new understanding,
marveling at the very modern dilemmas and problems they confront and explore.
As Rosenblatt shows, these are courageous, intelligent women—women who risk
everything to give birth, to protect their children, to win their husband’s love
and to ensure the survival of the human race. They seduce; they challenge; they
trick; they subvert authority, using their power as women to work everyday
miracles in a patriarchal world.
The stories here are as gripping and fresh as a contemporary novel: An infertile
wife puts another woman in her husband’s bed so that he can father a child with
her. A mother is forced to choose between her two sons. A daughter tries to
convince her father to rescue her from a sexually abusive brother. A woman
marries a celebrity only to lose him to his fame and his own jealousy.
In this powerful blend of history, psychology, and storytelling, women today
will recognize their own struggles to love, to mother, to succeed in
relationships and to work their way through a complicated and dangerous world.
AFTER THE APPLE
Women in the Bible-Timeless Stories of Lust,
Love, and Longing
By
Naomi Harris Rosenblatt
ISBN 0-7868-6908-9
6 1/8 x 9 1/4; 288 pp
On sale: March 23, 2005
$23.95
Please contact Claire McKinney at Miramax Books for further information or if
you are interested in scheduling an event. Claire.McKinney@miramax.com
917-606-5503
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