Water From The Well: Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah - Hardcover

Roiphe, Anne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060737964 ISBN 13: 9780060737962

Publisher: HarperOne, 2006

Synopsis

By retelling the stories of the Matriarchs through a sympathetic eye, Anne Roiphe will create portraits of the Bible’s women that will show how they played a role in Western history, how they taught us what is important and what is not, how they inspire our moral and immoral imaginations.

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From the Back Cover:

By retelling the stories of the Matriarchs through a sympathetic eye, Anne Roiphe will create portraits of the Bible’s women that will show how they played a role in Western history, how they taught us what is important and what is not, how they inspire our moral and immoral imaginations. She will also bring the reader closer to the biblical landscape by describing in detail the actual lives these woman led: the animals they cared for; the terror of illness; the sense of helplessness and fear they must have experienced; the packing up of the tent; the terrors caused by drought and rain and flood; the ache of infertility; the joy of birth; the pleasures of love.

About the Author:

Anne Roiphe's seventeen books include Fruitful, a finalist for the National Book Award. She has written for the New York Times, the New York Observer, Vogue, Elle, Redbook, Parents, and The Guardian, and is a contributing editor to the Jerusalem Report. She lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperOne
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0060737964
• ISBN 13: 9780060737962
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288