Tamar
by Ann Chamberlin
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A biblical tale featuring Tamar, stepdaughter of King David of Jerusalem. The daughter of a high priestess of the Kingdom of Geshur, herself destined to be a priestess, the novel chronicles how she adjusts to a society which allows for only one god.Tags
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A work of historical fiction based on the Biblical Tamar, daughter of King David. This work doesn't really align too well with the Biblical characters so I sometimes became confused. For example, the Biblical Amnon rapes Tamar but in this book, his cousin, Jonadab rapes Tamar and Amnon is the kind, loving step-brother. Since I was familiar with the story from 2 Samuel 13 (where Tamar is only named twice and the incident is only about 6 verses) I was confused when the characters were changed around. Not sure why an author would do this. The author does create quite a story for Tamar as the "Snake Sleeper" who controls snakes for her ceremonies and is immune to their bite. 468 pages
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Ann Chamberlin is the best-selling author of fourteen historical novels and numerous plays produced around the United States. Her recent books include The Book of Wizzy and The Sword and the Well trilogy.
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Romance
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PS3553 .H2499 .T35 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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