The woman who wrote the Bible : a comedy of truly biblical proportions / Moacyr Scliar ; Introduction by Ilan Stavans ; translated by Heath Wing.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scliar, Moacyr, author.

Contributor:

Wing, Heath, translator.

Stavans, Ilan, writer of introduction.

Wing, Heath.

Series:

Jewish Latin America

Jewish Latin America series

Standardized Title:

Mulher que escreveu a Bíblia. English

Language:

English

Portuguese

Subjects (All):

Women--Fiction.

Women.

Reincarnation--Fiction.

Reincarnation.

Bible--Authorship--Fiction.

Bible.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 136 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

University of New Mexico English edition.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2026.

Language Note:

In English; translated from the original Portuguese.

Summary:

"Moacyr Scliar was the preeminent literary voice of the Jewish immigrant experience in modern Brazil. Now his most ambitiously satirical and irreverent novel is at last translated into English, offering not just a significant contribution to Latin American and Jewish literature but to world literature as well. In a past-life therapy session, a mysterious woman makes a remarkable breakthrough when she discovers that in a previous life she was one of King Solomon's seven hundred wives. In language that hilariously mixes modern jargon and biblical diction, she sets out to tell the story of her earlier incarnation three thousand years in the past, revealing how she went from a provincial nobody to a queen. Yet being royalty isn't all it's cracked up to be. As the least desirable of King Solomon's wives and concubines, she is unceremoniously discarded and forgotten in his harem. But as luck would have it, she possesses a unique gift: she is a woman who knows how to read and write. Once her talent is discovered, King Solomon charges her with writing what will become one of the most important texts in human history. Along the way our nameless narrator leverages her newfound status as royal scribe to bring about her own secret agenda. A brilliant feminist critique skewering the absurdities of patriarchy, The Woman Who Wrote the Bible is a comic masterpiece of truly biblical proportions"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780826369314

0826369316

OCLC:

738863267

Publisher Number:

90104344125