This biblical novel, co-written with award-winning author Eva Marie Everson, expands on the brief story of Tamar’s rape by her half-brother Amnon (2 Sam 13). It transforms Tamar’s painful ending in the Bible into a journey of redemption and healing for the heroine, viewed through the lens of a manuscript once considered lost: The Words of Gad the Seer.
Miriam Feinberg Vamosh is a writer whose works have sold over half a million copies, as well as an editor and translator specializing in heritage and culture and issues involving the presence of women in the archaeological record. Miriam holds an undergraduate degree in education and a master’s degree in archaeology and heritage, with distinction, from Leicester University. She was a tour educator in Israel for 40 years, and a translator at the Haaretz English Edition in Israel for 20 years. Her work includes a historical novel, The Scroll (Toby Press) and her nonfiction books are Teach it to Your Children: How Kids Lived in Bible Days (Avimedia 2014), Women at the Time of the Bible (Palphot 2007); Food in the Bible: from Adam’s Apple to the Last Supper (Palphot 2005); Daily Life at the Time of Jesus (Palphot 2000, translated into over 30 languages); Israel, Land of the Bible (Palphot 2005) and Pathways Through The Land of the Hart (Gefen). In addition to numerous articles, Miriam has written three site guides to Israel national parks, translated several of the national park pamphlets distributed to visitors, and edits and translates the work of Israel Antiquities Authority scholars and others. Miriam’s master’s degree thesis entitled “Speaking of Women: Engendering Presentation at Megiddo,” examined more than a century of archaeological excavations at Megiddo (Armageddon) to discover what finds about women had been ignored, and whether and how the site museum could be redesigned to represent the presence of women in a place where warfare seems a paramount concern. A native of Trenton, New Jersey, Miriam has lived in Israel since 1970. https://miriamfeinbergvamosh.com.