Sarah and After: Five Women Who Founded a Nation

A small band of tribesmen was making the long journey across the Egyptian desert with their asses, tends, basket of food and grains. Crouched in one of the baskets was a young woman, a girl so beautiful that her husband had ordered her to be hidden from the eyes of roaming Egyptians who might try to carry her off. This girl was Sarah, the wife of Abraham, who was destined to be the founder of a great nation, "the chosen people of God".Sarah's history is the first section of a story that describes four generations of young women who were to become the matriarchs of the Hebrew nation - Sarah, Rebecca, the sisters Leah and Rachel, and Leah's daughter, Dinah.The author has sensitively interpreted the original stories, portraying these biblical figures as sympathetic, believable women involved in dramatic and unusual events.