 | 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 |
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"Dazzling to read and weighty to ponder." Booklist |
"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 |