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Loose adaptation of the story of the woman of Jericho,
By Gary Selikow (Great Kush) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Scarlet Cord : A Novel of the Woman of Jericho. (Hardcover)
Frank G Slaughter, was a bestselling American novelist and physician whose bestselling novels sold more than 60 million copies.He often drew on his experiences as a physician, in this novel one of the main heros is Salmon, the physician, and chief male protagonist. This novel adapts the story of Rahab, the woman of Jericho, the harlot who helped the Israelite spies in Jericho, and was spared with her family, during the Israelite conquest. According to Slaughter's fairly loose adaptaion, Rahab meets Joshuah and Salmon during the conquest of Canaan by the Israelites, and is betrothed to Joshuah, but is attacked and sold into slavery hometown of Medeba. She is sold in Egypt as a concubine to Hazor, Prince of Jericho, and journeys there with him as his consort. She gives birth to a son, Jaschar, who we learn is by Joshuah. Hazor is assasinated and his enemies sieze power. Rahab is forced into harlotry by the evil Egyptian Captian Kanofer. From there she is reunited with Salmon, who has always loved her, but hated as a harlot by Joshuah. She helps the spies and is rescued by the Israelites but spurned by Joshuah, she eventually marries Salmon, and moves to Chinnereth with him, after her son dies in a the war against Ai. I liked the interpretation that Rahab was part of the Hebrew tribes that stayed in Canaan while their brethren went down to Egypt, but am not happy with much of the rest. Joshuah is unjustly villified and presented as cruel, egotistical and smallminded, and not the great prophet and leader of men that he was. In fact according to Midrashic and Talmudic documentation Johuah in fact married Rahab, and they were ancestors of several great prophets. The idea of Rahab marrying Salmon is part of New Testament hagiography. Very little is depicted of Israelite society, and much more of Egypt and Jericho. I do not like the depiction of her having known Joshuah before the Israelite conquest of Jericho, or of having been Prince Hazor's consort. But this is all part of Slaughter's poetic licence. Neverthless the book is richly written and imaginativly descriptive of ancient life in Canaan and Egypt.
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