In this feminist retelling of ancient creation myths, "Lilith and Adam are equal and happy in the Garden of Eden -- until Adam decides Lilith should submit to his will and lie beneath him. She refuses -- and is banished forever from Paradise. Demonized and sidelined, Lilith watches in fury as God creates Eve, the woman who accepts her submission. But Lilith has a secret: she has already tasted the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. Endowed with wisdom,...

For the millions of readers fascinated by Dan Brown's revelations about Mary Magdalen in The Da Vinci Code, here, at last, is their chance to meet the Gospel's most provocative woman face to face-on her own terms. Make way for a new Magdalen. Born on a Celtic isle to eight warrior-witch mothers, Maeve is raised to be as brave as any hero. In her stubborn, enchanting voice, she recounts her perilous quest for the young man, Esus, whose life she once...

A fictional account of women in the bible.

A fictional telling of how Queen Esther risked her life to prevent the killing of all the Jews in Persia. A young Jewish girl, plucked from her home by the king's men and confined to the splendor of the palace, manages to captivate the king and become his queen, but must soon find a way to save her threatened people, whatever the cost.

Life is not easy in Philistia, especially not for a woman and child alone. When beautiful, wounded Delilah finds herself begging for food to survive, she resolves that she will find a way to defeat all the men who have taken advantage of her. She will overcome the roadblocks life has set before her, and she will find riches and victory for herself. When she meets a legendary man called Samson, she senses that in him lies the means for her victory....

"A Spanish edition of Anita Diamant's bestselling The Red Tent, which imagines the life of Dinah and combines rich storytelling with a valuable achievement in modern fiction: a new view of biblical women's lives"-- "Una edición española de Anita Diamant del best seller La tienda roja, que se imagina la vida de Dina y combina rica narración de cuentos con un logro valioso en la ficción moderna: una nueva visión de la vida de las mujeres bíblicas"--translated...

Forced finally to share her husband Abraham after a lifetime of devotion, rebuked by the Lord for her unbelief, and grappling with fears that her beloved Isaac will be displaced by Hagar's Ishmael, Sarah is nonetheless a triumphant figure.

"Born into a time and place where a woman speaks her mind at her peril, and reared as a motherless child by a doting father, Rebekah grew up to be a stunning, headstrong beauty. She was chosen by God for a special destiny. Rebekah leaves her father's house to marry Isaac, the studious young son of the Patriarch Abraham, only to find herself caught up in a series of painful rivalries, first between her husband and his brother Ishmael, and later between...