title: Biblical Seductions: Six Stories Retold Based on Talmud and Midrash
author:  Sandra E. Rapoport 
description: In this well-researched and thorough tome, Rapoport, an attorney and author, examines the narratives relating to six women in the Bible who either seduced or were violated, and explores the history, culture, and rabbinic literature to find logical resolutions to readers' questions. Among the characters Rapoport investigates are Judah and Tamar, the Davidic patriarch and the daughter-in-law who becomes his lover; Dinah and Shechem, daughter of the patriarch Jacob who is abducted by the city's prince; and Ruth and Boaz, the righteous widow who seduces the powerful leader. In assessing the motives, emotions, and reactions to these couplings, Rapoport gleans evidence from modern and medieval biblical commentators, discussions in the Talmud, and stories in the Midrash, all of whom, like the author, were bothered by ambiguities and gaps in the text. She also offers her own thoughts and does a fine job of weighing every angle of the story to provide readable in-depth analyses, and she grips readers with a continued storyline of the protagonists after the biblical text concludes. This lengthy and exhaustive work is certain to please and become a source for students of biblical women's studies. --Publisher's Weekly
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  Isabel’s
  
  
  Seduction
  
  
  
  
  
  AN INVITATION TO SIN
  
  
  
  
  
  BOOK ONE
  
  
  
  
  
  BY
  
  
  
  
  
  JILLIAN EATON
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents
  either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is
  entirely coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
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  Copyright © 2015 by Jillian Eaton
  
  
  
  
  
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  TABLE OF CONTENTS
  
  
  
  
  
  [PROLOGUE](part0000_split_004.html#_Toc447392767)
  
  
  [CHAPTER ONE](part0000_split_005.html#_Toc447392768)
  
  
  [CHAPTER TWO](part0000_split_006.html#_Toc447392769)
  
  
  [CHAPTER THREE](part0000_split_007.html#_Toc447392770)
  
  
  [CHAPTER FOUR](part0000_split_008.html#_Toc447392771)
  
  
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