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New York, N.Y. : Clarion, c1982.
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Retells the Biblical story of Joshua who, in succeeding Moses as the leader of the Israelites, masterminded the conquest of Canaan, the Promised Land.
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LibraryThing member raizel
Miriam Chaikin adds a family to Joshua's story in the Bible and changes a few things, but mostly it's a retelling, with some Midrashic and feminist explanations and additions, that keeps your interest and is a little less bloody than the original: being able to say smoting, rather than killing,
The woodcuts are formal and nicely done.
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helps. Joshua marries Rahab after his first wife, Pnina dies. Rosh Hodesh is celebrated as a woman's holiday; the men who do women's work that day are less skilled at it. The woodcuts are formal and nicely done.
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0899191207 / 9780899191201