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Lilah : a forbidden love, a people's destiny

In the Persian town of Susa, the beautiful Lilah dreams of marrying her Persian lover and childhood sweetheart, Antinoes. However, her beloved brother Ezra, who has immersed himself in studying the laws of God, refuses to approve of their union since Antinoes is not a Jew.

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  • "In the Persian town of Susa, the beautiful Lilah dreams of marrying her Persian lover and childhood sweetheart, Antinoes. However, her beloved brother Ezra, who has immersed himself in studying the laws of God, refuses to approve of their union since Antinoes is not a Jew."@en
  • "Living in exile, Lilah is in love with Antinoes a Persian warrior. Antinoes wants to make Lilah his wife. Lilah will not marry with out her brothers blessing. Erza is a scholar of the law of Moses, Both Lilah believes that is her brothers destiny to lead the Jewish People back to the Promised land. She believes that it is her duty to help her brother with this seemingly impossible task."@en
  • "Dernier volet des trois romans qui racontent la modernité des femmes de la Bible, cet ouvrage retrace l'histoire de Lilah qui s'opposa au fanatisme religieux de son frère Ezra. Elle résista auprès des femmes non juives qui, selon lui, devaient être répudiées afin de conserver la pureté du peuple juif."
  • "397BC: in Susa, capital of the Persian empire where the Jews are living in exile, Lilah is destined for a happy life, due to marry Antinoes, a great Persian warrior. But her brother Ezra is opposed to this marriage with a foreigner. If Lilah insists, she will have to renounce Ezra, but she senses that God has chosen him to lead the exiled Jews. Abandoning the promise of a golden future, Lilah urges her brother to leave for Jerusalem, and gives him hope that a return to the Promised Land is possible. But the fanatical Ezra orders the rejection of all foreign wives. Lilah opposes her brother, thereby ensuring the survival of the women and children condemned to leave the city. But her opposition comes at great personal cost."
  • "In the Persian town of Susa, Lilah dreams of marrying her Persian lover and childhood sweetheart, Antinoes, but her brother Ezra refuses to approve of their union since Antinoes is not a Jew. As the story unfolds, Lilah becomes the unlikely instrument of gaining royal approval for the Jewish people to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the holy city, but once there, Ezra orders all non-Jewish wives and children driven away; a horrified Lilah repudiates her brother and leaves with them."@en
  • "Set in the magnificent culture of the Middle East more than four thousand years ago, Lilah is a rich and emotionally resonant story of faith, love, and courage."
  • "In his final installment of the Canaan Trilogy (Sarah; Zipporah), Halter ambitiously tackles portions of the complicated biblical book of Ezra, which centers on the rebuilding of the Jerusalem temple and calls Israel to ethnic and religious purity. In the Persian town of Susa, the beautiful Lilah dreams of marrying her Persian lover and childhood sweetheart, Antinoes. However, her beloved brother Ezra, who has immersed himself in studying the laws of God, refuses to approve of their union since Antinoes is not a Jew. As the story unfolds, with scenes full of rich detail, Lilah becomes the unlikely instrument of gaining royal approval for the Jewish people to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the holy city. However, once there, Ezra orders all non-Jewish wives and children driven away in what is surely one of the most heart-wrenching episodes directly from scripture. A horrified Lilah repudiates her brother and leaves with them. As the cast-off women wander unprotected outside the city, rape, murder and mayhem ensue. (It's confusing that Lilah narrates one violent scene, but readers are unsure how she survives it.) As in Sarah and Zipporah, there is plenty of highly charged sexuality and some imaginative storytelling. Unfortunately, as with its predecessors, the story trails off, and the ending is unsatisfactory."@en
  • "Lilah, the sister of Ezra, the high priest destined to lead the Jews back to Jerusalem, gives up her plans to marry a Persian warrior for her faith, but when her brother orders all Jewish men to abandon their foreign-born wives, Lilah rebels."@en
  • "Lilah, the sister of Ezra, the high priest destined to lead the Jews back to Jerusalem, gives up her plans to marry a Persian warrior for her faith, but when her brother orders all Jewish men to abandon their foreign-born wives, Lilah rebels."
  • ""Avec Lilah se clôt la trilogie La Bible au féminin. Sarah, l'épouse stérile d'Abraham, pesait de tout son destin individuel face à Dieu. Tsippora, épouse de Moïse, luttait contre le racisme et l'ostracisme. En se dressant contre l'extrémisme religieux, dont les femmes sont les premières victimes, Lilah défend une magnifique idée de la dignité."

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