Ya’el is caught up in life before she’s ready. Struggling to avoid a marriage arranged for her at the age of fourteen but unable to find a solution, she searches for a meaning and purpose beyond the one assigned to her by her society. Her desperate need to find the Goddess who will give her a place and the the time to learn who she is and who she will become are set against a stunning backdrop of an Israel long gone. Ya’el is a magical tale that celebrates the power of womanhood.
Minor sexual content
Tala Bar
15,000 words
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The unrelenting patriarchical monomania extolled throughout the biblical stories most familiar to us is here leavened with what might be called the real story, the women’s side of the masculine tall tales denied both by archeology and common sense, in which women have their own agenda, their own thoughts, and finally their own lives, in some cases utterly free and independent of the biblical model of female subservience.
In Ya'el we see the complex, vibrant, diverse, alive Israel the prophets complained of, and the men and women who lived there, a broad spectrum of ambitions, religious traditions, points of view, and lives that winds up looking less like the single white light of infallible truth and more like a rainbow.
It will appeal both to young women and to those who appreciate the feminine side of divinity.
Women's Books Online
Lee Anne Phillips
