From Eden to Exile
Unraveling Mysteries of the Bible
Written by Eric H. Cline
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2012
Price: $16.95
Eric H. Cline uses the tools of his trade to examine some of the most puzzling mysteries from the Hebrew Bible and, in the process, to narrate the history of ancient Israel. Combining the academic rigor that has won the respect of his peers with an accessible style that has made...
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Beginnings
Reflections on the Bible's Intriguing Firsts
Written by Meir Shalev
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $12.99
The bestselling and prize-winning Israeli author Meir Shalev describes the many "firsts" of the Bible – the first love and the first death, to the first laugh and the first dream – providing a fresh, secular and surprising look at the stories we think we know. The first kiss in the Bible...
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The Beginning of Desire
Reflections on Genesis
Written by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2011
Price: $19.95
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award
Since its publication in 1995, The Beginning of Desire has opened new pathways in the reading of the Bible. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg’s innovative use of midrash, literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis draws deeply upon the familiar biblical narratives to produce interpretations that are at once startlingly...
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The Beginning of Desire
Reflections on Genesis
Written by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2011
Price: $14.99
Turn the Scriptures over to Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg and what do you get? A unique blend of brilliant literary insights and theological wisdom, derived from a lifelong immersion in rabbinic traditions and lore. With amazing literary sensitivity, Zornberg ingeniously breathes new life into Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac...
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The Particulars of Rapture
Reflections on Exodis
Written by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
Format: eBook, 592 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2011
Price: $18.99
Avivah Zornberg grew up in a world of rabbinic tradition and scholarship and received a Ph.D. in English literature from Cambridge University.
The Particulars of Rapture, the sequel to her award-winning study of the Book of Genesis, takes its title from a line by the American poet Wallace Stevens about the...
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The Particulars of Rapture
Reflections on Exodus
Written by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2011
Price: $21.95
In her commentary on the book of Exodus—the stories of slavery and liberation, the burning bush, the revelation at Sinai, the golden calf, the shattering of the tablets, the building and consecration of the tabernacle—Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg weaves a magnificent tapestry of classical biblical, talmudic, and midrashic interpretations; literary allusions; and...
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From Eden to Exile
Unraveling Mysteries of the Bible
Written by Eric H. Cline
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 17, 2008
Price: $16.95
In this provocative yet persuasive book, now in paperback, Eric H. Cline uses the tools of his trade to examine some of the most puzzling mysteries from the Hebrew Bible and, in the process, to narrate the history of ancient Israel. Combining academic with an accessible style that has made him...
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From Eden to Exile
Unraveling Mysteries of the Bible
Written by Eric H. Cline
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: June 19, 2007
Price: $26.00
Eric H. Cline uses the tools of his trade to examine some of the most puzzling mysteries from the Hebrew Bible and, in the process, to narrate the history of ancient Israel. Combining the academic rigor that has won the respect of his peers with an accessible style that has made...
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