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Five Books of Miriam: A Woman's Commentary on the Torah

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Five Books of Miriam: A Woman's Commentary on the Torah - Frankel, Ellen
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Weaving together Jewish lore, the voices of Jewish foremothers, Yiddish fable, midrash and stories of her own imagining, Ellen Frankel has created in this book a breathtakingly vivid exploration into what the Torah means to women. Here are Miriam, Esther, Dinah, Lilith and many other women of the Torah in dialogue with Jewish daughters, mothers and grandmothers, past and present. Together these voices examine and debate every aspect of a Jewish woman's life -- work, sex, marriage, her connection to God and her place in the ...

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Five Books of Miriam: A Woman's Commentary on the Torah 1997, HarperOne, San Francisco, CA

ISBN-13: 9780060630379

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