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Water From The Well Sarah Rebekah Rachel and Leah Anne Roiphe 9780060737962 Books Reviews

This is a gentle retelling of Bible stories from a feminine perspective. Unfortunately it is from a modern Orthodox woman's perspective, a woman apparently not at all aware of Archaeology. Anyone who is interested in the real lives of the women depicted in the Bible should read "Did God Have a Wife" by Dever. The early tribal women who ended up being the ancestors of the Hebrews were not monotheists at all, as much as this author wishes or believes that they were.
I searched for women's Bible studies. This is a book that was displayed from the search. It is not what I thought it was. It's a novel and that is not what I wanted. If you're looking for a Bible study, do not order this book.
Can't believe this book found no other takers but the people from MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW, at least if the reviews posted on good old reliable are any indication. I picked up this book because I was thirsty for some retellings of stories of eminent women from the Old Testament. Was I one hundred per cent satisfied with what I got? No, but in this case I don't feel the problem is all in Anne Roiphe's hands. Obviously she knew what she was doing targeting these particular four women. She must have been going for the women who had problems. None of these four walked without fault, as do none of us today, but I bet none of us reading these reviews on ever did anything as awful as Roiphe's four heroines here.

She explains away their behavior saying, first, that the times have changed so much it's hard to tell if the ungenerous acts of her "Golden Girls" were considered unseemly back then, and secondly, she pulls out every stop to make excuses for them. And God allowed all these women to do exactly as they pleased, for He gave them all free will. To account for Rebekah's complicity in helping Jacob steal Esau's inheritance, Roiphe reaches into Theology 101 and writes, "God gave Rebekah the intelligence to think up the plot, the will to see her way to carry out the deception, the conviction to do what she thought was right. God knew that Rebekah there at the beginning of history made the right choice."

Anne Roiphe isn't the nation's most lapidary stylist, and she often jumbles up her sentences with frou-frou, like the birds and mice piling ribbons on the ballgown they make for Cinderella. But why does she think Rebekah made the right choice? Hard to say. How about that Sarah? OK, I felt sorry for her being barren and having Hagar laugh at her (if that really happened), but why send Hagar and little what's his name out into the desert without any water? Horrible! Just because Hagar was a slave didn't mean that Sarah plotted against her in a perfectly passive-aggressive way. "Oh, just cast her out into the desert with Ishmael, let God decide their fate." Roiphe quotes some Biblical scholars who speculate that Ishmael deserved to be punished because he had been molesting little Isaac (Sarah's son by Abraham). I don't think so!

Her book has a bibliography but no notes so it's hard to tell from her "Some say" usage who really said what, but if there's an alibi for Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel and Leah I don't know what it could be. I guess Leah comes off the best, but what do you make of her sneaking into the bed tent on Jacob's wedding day, after he's worked for Laban for seven years and he's married the beautiful girl he loves, Rachel, only to find her sty-eyed sister there instead? Nice going, Leah!
Ann Roiphe has written an enthralling story based on various midrashes on Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel and Leah. She has used the tradional patriarchal interpretations of these women's lives and given them a feminist augmentation and perspective. Well done!
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