num_pages: 351
description: Avram has spent his life raising sheep in the hills around his native Bethlehem. Old age finds him cynical peculiar and perhaps dangerous. After Avram and his mute wife Yael reluctantly accept responsibility for an unwanted child the girls charming innocence endears her to the couple. When Channah is a young teen her stepfather unexpectedly appears and demands custody taking her away to an arranged marriage. The young woman hopes for a kind husband cherishing the dream of someday having her own child to love. Meanwhile an old friend persuades Avram to investigate rumors of a miraculous healer. What the old shepherd discovers challenges everything he has ever believed.
language: English
title: Song of the Shepherd Woman
publisher: Chavelbooks LLC