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Miriam: A Treasures of the Nile Novel
by Mesu Andrews - I've greatly enjoyed a couple of previous novels by Mesu Andrews, so I was very excited to be able to read an advance copy of her newest novel, Miriam. Miriam is not mentioned often in the Bible, and is rather an enigmatic figure. We know her as the older sister of Moses, and associate her with watching over her baby brother as his basket floated in the Nile. But she's also mentioned as a prophetess helping to lead the Hebrews out of Egypt during the Exodus. This novel picks up her story right about the time Moses returns to Egypt from Midian with God's instructions to lead his people. So it's an unusual novel because its heroine is eighty-six years old!
Miriam's role in her Hebrew village and in her extended family is the viewpoint from which the story of the plagues and the Exodus is told. We meet her parents, her brothers Moses and Aaron, and Aaron's sons, and well-researched and believable details are woven into their characters and story. Aaron's third son Eleazar plays a large role in the story, as he is sort of a foster son to his never married aunt (or Doda) Miriam. Miriam has held the honor of being the prophetess of El-Shaddai to the Hebrews, but when Moses comes home with a bold calling from God and a new name they are to know him by, Miriam often feels that El-Shaddai has abandoned her. She struggles to find her new role and to learn to hear from Yahweh in a new way. Meanwhile Eleazar and his new wife are also wrestling with whether they should fully trust a God that they can't understand, and believe that Yahweh really can break the powerful grip of Egypt and lead them to true freedom.
I was drawn into this wonderful retelling of the story of the Exodus right from the first page, and sympathized with Miriam as she yearned for a freedom she could hardly imagine, and to find her place to belong and be useful as everything she had known for her whole life was changing.
By the same author: Love's Sacred Song, Love Amid the Ashes.
Miriam: A Treasures of the Nile Novel is scheduled to be released on March 15th, but can be pre-ordered at Amazon.
I received this book from Waterbrook Press, a division of Penguin Random House, in exchange for an honest review.
by Mesu Andrews - I've greatly enjoyed a couple of previous novels by Mesu Andrews, so I was very excited to be able to read an advance copy of her newest novel, Miriam. Miriam is not mentioned often in the Bible, and is rather an enigmatic figure. We know her as the older sister of Moses, and associate her with watching over her baby brother as his basket floated in the Nile. But she's also mentioned as a prophetess helping to lead the Hebrews out of Egypt during the Exodus. This novel picks up her story right about the time Moses returns to Egypt from Midian with God's instructions to lead his people. So it's an unusual novel because its heroine is eighty-six years old!Miriam's role in her Hebrew village and in her extended family is the viewpoint from which the story of the plagues and the Exodus is told. We meet her parents, her brothers Moses and Aaron, and Aaron's sons, and well-researched and believable details are woven into their characters and story. Aaron's third son Eleazar plays a large role in the story, as he is sort of a foster son to his never married aunt (or Doda) Miriam. Miriam has held the honor of being the prophetess of El-Shaddai to the Hebrews, but when Moses comes home with a bold calling from God and a new name they are to know him by, Miriam often feels that El-Shaddai has abandoned her. She struggles to find her new role and to learn to hear from Yahweh in a new way. Meanwhile Eleazar and his new wife are also wrestling with whether they should fully trust a God that they can't understand, and believe that Yahweh really can break the powerful grip of Egypt and lead them to true freedom.
I was drawn into this wonderful retelling of the story of the Exodus right from the first page, and sympathized with Miriam as she yearned for a freedom she could hardly imagine, and to find her place to belong and be useful as everything she had known for her whole life was changing.
By the same author: Love's Sacred Song, Love Amid the Ashes.
Miriam: A Treasures of the Nile Novel
is scheduled to be released on March 15th, but can be pre-ordered at Amazon.I received this book from Waterbrook Press, a division of Penguin Random House, in exchange for an honest review.
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