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SARAH: A Woman Whose Dream Came True.
Edition: First English language edition.
Bassingstroke, England & Grand Rapids, Michigan: Marshall Pickering / Erdmans, (1987.). Hardcover first edition - A title in the Outstanding Women of the Bible series, written for young children, and illustrated in full color by Charles Barat. Unpaginated, large format. ISBN: 0-802850154.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated boards.
Book ID: 39369More details Price: $12.50 -
OUT OF THE GARDEN: Women Writers on the Bible.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Fawcett Columbine, (1984). First edition - A collection of essays in which "women read and respond to the Bible out of pleasure and curiosity . . Drawing on their own epxeriences and interests, Louise Erdrich, Cynthia Ozick, Fay Weldon, Phyllis Trible, Rebecca Goldstein, June Jordan, Ursula Le Guin, and twenty-one other writers boldly imaginatively - and sometimes reproachfully - address the Old Testament stories, characters, and poetry that mean the most to them." Among the other contributors are Marina Warner, Rachel M. Brownstein, Amy Clampitt, Allegra Goodman and more. Notes, contributors' biographies. xiv, 350 pp.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (a binding flaw which resulted in crinkling to several pages, back cover).
Book ID: 78356More details Price: $15.00 -
THE FIFTH MOUNTAIN.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: HarperPerennial, (1999.). Fifth novel by this popular Brazilian writer, best known for "The Alchemist, 'a fable about following your dream' which has become a modern classic. Translated by Clifford E. Landers. Set in the ninth century B.C., this is a story of the Biblical prophet Elijah. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0175443.
Condition: Near fine (usual light toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 47770More details Price: $9.50 -
THE SACRED PAGEANT OF THE AGES: CREATION TO ISRAEL IN EGYPT : Volume I.
Edition: Hardcover.
Cincinnati: Sacred Pageant Society, (1927.). Hardcover - Volume One only, but complete in itself. Color frontispiece. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs, maps and drawings, including some full page plates. xxxvii, 260 pp.
Condition: Very good in dark brown leatherette boards.
Book ID: 55027More details Price: $18.00 -
THE SACRED PAGEANT OF THE AGES: MOSES TO GIDEON : Volume 2.
Edition: Hardcover.
Cincinnati: Sacred Pageant Society, (1927.). Hardcover - Volume Two ONLY, but complete in itself. Color frontispiece. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs, maps and drawings, including some full page plates. xxxvii, 260 pp.
Condition: Very good in dark brown leatherette boards.
Book ID: 55028More details Price: $18.00 -
A POET'S BIBLE: Rediscovering The Voices Of The Original Text.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A controversial and highly praised retelling of fifteen of the BibleÕs greatest greatest books - including Genesis, the Psalms, the Song of Solomon, Ruth, Esther Judith and others, which introduces 15 new authors (some of whom Rosenberg believes to be women) and which reveals the imaginative power of the original verse. 410 pp. ISBN: 1562829882.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (crease to rear flap of dj). Review copy with publisher's material laid in.
Book ID: 47357More details Price: $30.00 -
SARAH THE PRIESTESS: The First Matriarch of Genesis.
Edition: First printing.
Athens, Ohio: Swallow Press, (1984) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The uncommon hardcover edition of this study of the role which Sarah plays, in the Genesis narratives. It "appears to be a highly energetic one, a role so active, in fact, that it repeatedly overshadows that of her husband.. . Dr. Teubal shows that the 'Sarah tradition' represents a nonpatriarchal system struggling for survival in isolation, in the patriarchal environment of what was for Sarah a foreign society." A presentation copy warmly INSCRIBED on the title page and also SIGNED in full. Illustrated with photographs, family tree charts, double page map. Notes, bibliography, index, chronology. xvii, 201 pp. ISBN: 0-804008434.
Condition: Near fine in navy blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine in a very good dust jacket. (short tear to upper edge of front cover of dj)
Book ID: 89737More details Price: $100.00