Abraham: The First Historical Biography
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Rated 5 starsAbraham:The First Histoical Biography
I am so amazed at the packaging and newness of this used book and how quickly it arrived after I placed the order. I sure do not need to go to book stores any longer. Thank you and may God Bless, Betty A
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Rated 4 starsVery thought provoking
After co-authoring The Book of J with Harold Bloom and The Book of David on his own, as well as other books, David Rosenberg turned to the man considered the founder of Judaism, Abraham. As with the two previously mentioned books, he offers his readers an iconoclastic, but interesting, in-depth and rich version of the biblical hero. Most of the narratives about Abraham need, of course, to be imaginative, but Rosenberg based...
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Rated 4 starsBiography or Fantasy?
Rosenberg has written an artful biography of Abraham, the spiritual father of three religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. To do so, he made his own translations of the accounts of Abraham appearing in the Bible, giving them a slightly different spin than in a standard translation. I found this book irritating, however, because the author did not identify what was factual -- to the extent we know the facts -- and...
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