Water from the Well Amazing Women of the Bible Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah

By retelling the stories of the Matriarchs through a sympathetic eye, Anne Roiphe will create portraits of the Bible's women that will show how they played a role in Western history, how they taught us what is important and what is not, how they inspire our moral and immoral imaginations. She will also bring the reader closer to the biblical landscape by describing in detail the actual lives these woman led: the animals they cared for; the terror of illness; the sense of helplessness and fear they must have experienced; the packing up of the tent; the terrors caused by drought and rain and flood; the ache of infertility; the joy of birth; the pleasures of love.Roiphe, Anne is the author of 'Water from the Well Amazing Women of the Bible Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah', published 2007 under ISBN 9780060737979 and ISBN 0060737972.