Rachel

by Samuel H. Dresner

Book Overview

Rachel - the ancestral mother of Israel - breathes again in this rich and perceptive reading by Samuel Dresner. Her tale of love, courage, tragedy, and perseverance has made her one of the most... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800627776
• ISBN13: 9780800627775
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

The Biblical Rachel, the Tradition's Rachel

A professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, has written a study of the "ancestral mother of Israel." Her tale of love, courage, tragedy, and perseverance has made her one of the most beloved figures in Jewish history. Pondered, revered and embellished for centuries, her story is recounted through Dresner's analysis of the narrative in the Book of Genesis, the venerable traditions of the Talmud and Midrash, and the insights of subsequent generations of Jewish and Christian poets, philosophers, mystics, and artists. "Dresner has an extraorinarily gifted pen. He possesses the ability to treat the narrative in a way that makes it come alive. His knowledge of rabbinic sources is great. The skill with which he integrates midrash into the spaces in the biblical text is exactly as midrash was meant to be used. In his skillful hands, an emotionally touching portrait of Rachel emerges." -- Blu Greenburg