{"id":164,"date":"2006-11-14T03:41:32","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T03:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alephnaught.wordpress.com\/2006\/11\/14\/sarah-women-of-genesis\/"},"modified":"2008-11-02T13:59:38","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T21:59:38","slug":"sarah-women-of-genesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2006\/11\/14\/sarah-women-of-genesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah: Women of Genesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-164\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sarah-Genesis-Orson-Scott-Card\/dp\/0765341174\/sr=8-9\/qid=1163504091\/ref=pd_bbs_9\/103-8016807-4943832?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books\" target=\"NewWindow\">Sarah: Women of Genesis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author: <\/strong>Orson Scott Card<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mass Market Paperback: <\/strong>352 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher: <\/strong>Forge Books; 1st Forge Ed edition (August 30, 2001)<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN: <\/strong>0765341174<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I enjoyed this book a lot.  Its very much fiction &#8211; as Card writes in the end notes, the Torah includes little detail and so any undertaking like this requires filling in details and even making a number of big assumptions.<\/p>\n<p>That said, this story of some of the women of the Torah is amazing, and I enjoy the way Card writes &#8211; its simple, elegant, direct, almost reminiscent to me of Hemmingway in the way he uses words sparingly to get mental images across.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-164\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 164);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-164\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-164\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Sarah: Women of Genesis Author: Orson Scott Card Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Forge Books; 1st Forge Ed edition (August 30, 2001) ISBN: 0765341174 I enjoyed this book a lot. Its very much fiction &#8211; as Card writes in the end notes, the Torah includes little detail and so any undertaking like this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[392,2344,382],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-bible","tag-books","tag-fiction"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-2E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}