The Prophet's Wife
A glorious new novel emerges unfinished, cut off by mortality; nevertheless equally powerful in its living imagery, passion, and humanity.Cynthia Ozick, National Book Award finalist and author of The Shawl and Heir to the Glimmering World --Cynthia OzickA sixty-year-old posthumous gift from the author of As a Driven Leaf, which was perhaps the most important Jewish novel of the twentieth century. Milton Steinberg's insights into the tormented, sexually betrayed, and perennially forgiving Hosea ring true and . . . present a full-bodied portrait of a major figure who until now was just a name.Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, National Jewish Book Award winner and author of Jewish Literacy and A Code of Jewish EthicsThe greatest voice of the American pulpit reaches out to us from the past. The discovery of a new work by Milton Steinberg is a gripping and wondrous event.Rabbi David J. Wolpe, author of Why Faith Matters and Floating Takes Faith --Rabbi David J. WolpeA glorious new novel emerges unfinished, cut off by mortality; nevertheless equally powerful in its living imagery, passion, and humanity.Cynthia Ozick, National Book Award finalist and author of The Shawl and Heir to the Glimmering World --Cynthia Ozick<br /><br />A sixty-year-old posthumous gift from the author of As a Driven Leaf, which was perhaps the most important Jewish novel of the twentieth century. Milton Steinberg's insights into the tormented, sexually betrayed, and perennially forgiving Hosea ring true and . . . present a full-bodied portrait of a major figure who until now was just a name.Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, National Jewish Book Award winner and author of Jewish Literacy and A Code of Jewish EthicsThe greatest voice of the American pulpit reaches out to us from the past. The discovery of a new work by Milton Steinberg is a gripping and wondrous event.Rabbi David J. Wolpe, author of Why Faith Matters and Floating Takes Faith --Rabbi Joseph Telushkin