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Title: Startling myth
Review: I found this book fascinating. The cultural details were wonderful--I found the lack of any clear dividing line between our traditional understanding of early Hebrew peoples and what a religious person might call pagan roots very thought-provoking. My book club rushed to the Bible to see what was said there about these characters. The power and mystery of these women was amazing--it made me think about how much women lost by being in a nuclear family in the Western sense in the last couple of hundred years, rather than part of large extended groups of mothers, cousins, daughters, servants--something only partly regained as women have fought for eqality in the modern age.
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