Portrays the passionate lives of the Biblical matriarchs, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah, as viewed through the lens of Jewish Biblical commentaries. The matriarchs' courtships, marriages, tragedies and triumphs come alive in this modern work.

The Passions of the Matriarchs

Religion & Spirituality

Tuchman, Shera Aranoff

Rapoport, Sandra E.

Christian Books & Bibles

Jason Aronson

The Bible is spare in its use of dialogue when it comes to the biblical matriarchs – Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah. The written biblical text records at length, and in minute detail, the religious and national history of the Jewish people. Yet it only affords us a mere glimpse of the private and intimate lives of these strong and prophetic women. On the surface, these women--the biblical matriarchs--lived difficult and flawed lives. They endured childlessness, abduction, wearisome marriages, envy of the "other woman," and difficult children. We are left wondering what they thought and how they felt, as they lived their personal lives and built a nation. 
This book, for the first time ever, answers these questions by drawing extensively upon classical biblical commentaries and Talmudic and Rabbinic writings which reveal the underlying emotions of the matriarchs. The reader enters the world of the matriarchs, experiencing the agony of infertility, the ecstasy of passionate love, and the pain of being unloved. Their thoughts, feelings, words and actions are fleshed out, and the women emerge not as one-dimensional figures, but as complex women possessing an array of universal passions. At the same time, these women remain grounded in Godliness, building the "House of Israel" as partners with the patriarchs. 
The Passions of the Matriarchs is a riveting and readable book that tells the story behind the passions that ruled the lives of these laudable women.

The Passions Of The Matriarchs

Ktav Pub & Distributors Inc

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: Six Stories Based on Talmud and Midrash

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

She was queen of all Persia, beautiful and mysterious. In a royal court rife with intrigue, she was also the ultimate coup for a spymaster: she was perfectly placed to influence the most powerful king in the ancient Near East. Only when her people faced certain genocide was the Bible's highest-placed sleeper agent activated. In The Queen &amp; The Spymaster, a novel based on the story of Esther, award-winning author and scholar Sandra E. Rapoport hews to the ancient text while imagining the suspenseful, gripping and ultimately triumphant backstory of the unlikely heroes of Xerxes' Persia.

The Queen & the Spymaster: A Novel Based on the Story of Esther

The Queen &amp; the Spymaster tells the story of the unlikely champions of Ancient Persia and of a thousand-year vendetta that presages modern historical events in Iran and Afghanistan. Readers are transported to the exotic fortress city of Susa, the imperial palace, and the royal harem, where truth wears a mask. Rapoport meticulously describes a royal court populated by an intricate shadow-world of spies and informants—a sinister brotherhood with orders to draw a target on the king's back; rival cabinet ministers who command private armies; an orphaned girl with a gift for languages and an innate political intuition; a queen who, unbeknownst to all, is a secret agent; and the shrewd tactician who controls her.

United States

Penlight Publications

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The Passions of the Matriarchs

The Passions Of The Matriarchs

Biblical Seductions: Six Stories Based on Talmud and Midrash

The Queen & the Spymaster: A Novel Based on the Story of Esther

The Queen & the Spymaster: A Novel Based on the Story of Esther