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The lost matriarch
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ISBN: 0827611803 9780827611795 082761179X 9780827612075 0827612079 9780827611801 9780827611818 0827611811 9781306945059 1306945054 Year: 2014 Publisher: Lincoln

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The Lost Matriarch offers a unique response to the sparse and puzzling biblical treatment of the matriarch Leah. Although Leah is a major figure in the book of Genesis, the biblical text allows her only a single word of physical description and two lines of direct dialogue. The Bible tells us little about the effects of her lifelong struggles in an apparently loveless marriage to Jacob, the husband she shares with three other wives, including her beautiful younger sister, Rachel. Fortunately, two thousand years of traditional and modern commentators have produced many fascinating int

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