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    612-822-4611

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Rav Hisda's Daughter, Book I: Apprentice: A Novel of Love, the Talmud, and Sorcery

Rav Hisda's Daughter, Book I: Apprentice: A Novel of Love, the Talmud, and Sorcery

Anton, Maggie

Paperback

Series: Rav Hisda's Daughter, Book 1

RomanceGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction

ISBN10: 0452298091
ISBN13: 9780452298095
Publisher: Plume Books
Published: Jul 31 2012
Pages: 480
Weight: 0.95
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
A lushly detailed look into a fascinatingly unknown time and culture--a tale of Talmud, sorcery, and a most engaging heroine!--Diana Gabaldon, author of the bestselling Outlander series

Hisdadukh, blessed to be beautiful and learned, is the youngest child of Talmudic sage Rav Hisda. The world around her is full of conflict. Rome, fast becoming Christian, battles Zoroastrian Persia for dominance while Rav Hisda and his colleagues struggle to establish new Jewish traditions after the destruction of Jerusalem's Holy Temple. Against this backdrop Hisdadukh embarks on the tortuous path to become an enchantress in the very land where the word 'magic' originated.

But the conflict affecting Hisdadukh most intimately arises when her father brings his two best students before her, a mere child, and asks her which one she will marry. Astonishingly, the girl replies, Both of them. Soon she marries the older student, although it becomes clear that the younger one has not lost interest in her. When her new-found happiness is derailed by a series of tragedies, a grieving Hisdadukh must decide if she does, indeed, wish to become a sorceress. Based on actual Talmud texts and populated with its rabbis and their families, Rav Hisda's Daughter: Book I - Apprentice brings the world of the Talmud to life--from a woman's perspective.

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