The Woman Who Named God
July 27th, 2009. Filed under: WILD Cards.
It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old…or for somewhere in between! Enjoy your free peek into the book!
You never know when I might play a wild card on you!
and the book:
The Woman Who Named God: Abraham’s Dilemma and the Birth of Three Faiths
Little, Brown and Company (July 28, 2009)
Charlotte Gordon graduated from Harvard College and received a Master’s in Creative Writing and a Ph.D. in History and Literature from Boston University. She has published two books of poetry and, most recently, the biography Mistress Bradstreet, which was a Massachusetts Book Award Honor Book. From 1999-2001, she taught at Boston University’s School of Theology. Currently, she is an assistant professor of English at Endicott College.
Visit the author’s website.
Product Details:
List Price: $27.99
Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (July 28, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 031611474X
ISBN-13: 978-0316114745
ISLAND BREEZES
I tried. I really did. I just couldn’t get past the introduction and first five pages of chapter one. I believe that the Bible is the inspired word of God. Ms Gordon talks about the “Abraham, Sarah and Hagar story” and Biblical mythology. Ms Gordon believes “The Bible is a thickly twisted braid of documented record, legend, law, and mythology and it is this that was passed down to us…”
I suppose that if this were a television program instead of a book, it would be labeled as a docudrama. I’m sure there are some interesting historical bits regarding the region, culture of the time, etc, but I’m not interested in Ms Gordon’s interpretation of what the people were thinking and feeling in her “myth.”
AND NOW…THE FIRST CHAPTER:
July 27th, 2009 at 12:31
Thanks for this review. I won’t waste my time reading this one.
July 27th, 2009 at 13:16
Thank you for your honest review. This wasn’t one of my picks to review, but it seemed like it might be really fascinating. I am so glad that you gave your review and your reasons. 🙂