Yvonne Stockhausen Bazliel

What if Genesis were re-written from the point of view of Eve? What if we were able to perch on the shoulder of Delilah, Jezebel or Mary Magdalene? What if we could look through Mary`s eyes and watch Jesus take his first steps? Daughters of the Word allows the hidden women of the Bible to come into view; what is more, these stories encourage them to speak. From Eve to Mary and beyond, we hear new insights from well-known female figures, but perhaps most powerfully we overhear the whispers, shouts and laughter of the ignored or the forgotten women of the Bible. These are the voices of dutiful daughters, careless and loving wives, spurned or self-sacrificing lovers; and their stories are told with insight and power, humour and warmth. From...

Дата выхода: январь 2007

A remarkable escape from shelling during the First World War; a river that appears overnight in time for a baptism and disappears the same afternoon; a particularly difficult piece of surgery completed with the aid of a mysterious voice: are these the work of God or merely coincidence? Drawing from a range of extraordinary experiences from the author`s youth and her work in Jamaica, Pakistan, India and Burma, these appealing and thought-provoking stories leave readers to make up their own minds.