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Rav Hisda's daughter, a novel of love, the Talmud, and sorcery, Maggie Anton, Book I

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Rav Hisda's daughter, a novel of love, the Talmud, and sorcery, Maggie Anton, Book I

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eng

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fiction

Main title

Rav Hisda's daughter

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785077571

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Maggie Anton

Sub title

a novel of love, the Talmud, and sorcery

Summary

"Hisdadukh, blessed to be beautiful and learned, is the youngest child of Talmudic sage Rav Hisda. The world around her is full of conflict. Rome, fast becoming Christian, battles Zoroastrian Persia for dominance while Rav Hisda and his colleagues struggle to establish new Jewish traditions after the destruction of Jerusalem's Holy Temple. Against this backdrop Hisdadukh embarks on the tortuous path to become an enchantress in the very land where the word 'magic' originated. But the conflict affecting Hisdadukh most intimately arises when her father brings his two best students before her, a mere child, and asks her which one she will marry. Astonishingly, the girl replies, "Both of them." Soon she marries the older student, although it becomes clear that the younger one has not lost interest in her. When her new-found happiness is derailed by a series of tragedies, a grieving Hisdadukh must decide if she does, indeed, wish to become a sorceress."--P. [4] of cover

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