The first five books of the Bible contain many of its most famous stories, populated by vivid characters altogether human in their triumphs and failings-and an equally complicated deity. Many works…
Among the ambiguities, superficialities, uncertainties, and temporality of a contemporary day-to-day, rush-here, rush-there world, Mann beams a revelatory light on the ordinary things--bathing the …
Author examining these and other issues, readers will draw striking parallels between the world of Israel several millennia ago and today. This absorbing and readable book will stimulate discussion…