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Washington State
Book Award Winner 2005
"Enthralling"
Publishers Weekly
"By far the most exciting treatment of Mary I have ever encountered."
Richard Horsley, professor of religion, University of Massachusetts, Boston
"Powerful and empowering, inspired and inspiring."
Naomi Wolf, author of The Beauty Myth
"Rich, provocative, suggestive, and enormously insightful."
Susannah Heschel, professor of Jewish studies, Dartmouth College
"A highly readable intellectual and spiritual treat."
Harvey Cox, professor of divinity, Harvard University
"Invites us deeper into the sheer paradoxical nature of faith."
Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking

"Dazzling to read and weighty to ponder."
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"Captures in a unique and profound way
why Luke's Mary could rightly say 'all
generations will call me blessed'."

Amy-Jill Levine, Professor of New Testament
Vanderbilt University Divinity School
Mary: a Flesh-and-Blood Biography, by Lesley Hazleton, published by Bloomsbury USA

Also by Lesley Hazleton: Jezebel: the Untold Story of the Bible's Harlot Queen

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