Queen of the Jews (Audible Audio Edition) Judy Petsonk Pamela Wolken Books
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Combine Cleopatra and Hillary Clinton. You'll have some idea of Queen Salome Alexandra, who ruled Judea (modern-day Israel) in the first century BCE. Vividly evoking scenes of ancient Jerusalem, Judy Petsonk's novel brings to life the queen's stormy relationship with her husband, and her love for the people who called her Shalom-Zion the peace of Zion.
A gripping, fun, read... Judy Petsonk's sexy heroine, Queen Salome Alexandra, possesses the brains, hutzpah, and vision to save Israel not only from its many enemies but also from its own conflicted nature. A marvelous window into a neglected and little-known chapter of Jewish history." - Ellen Frankel, Former Editor in Chief of the Jewish Publication Society
Queen of the Jews (Audible Audio Edition) Judy Petsonk Pamela Wolken Books
Queen of the Jews makes the history of Judea and the Jewish people in the first century BCE come alive. She recreates in fiction the life of the queen of Judea Shulamit-Zion (or Salome Alexandra) in that turbulent era. This was a trying time for the queen and for Judea, marked by bitter internal conflicts and ongoing warfare. Petsonk takes an historical personage about whom little is known and creates an intriguing, intricate fictional character. Shulamit-Zion is both excited and repelled by her husband, a brutal but often commanding presence, but she must prevent his wars of conquest from from destroying Judea. She bears two sons; the older becomes a disappointment, a passive, cowardly boy and man. The younger is taken by his father and raised to be a conscienceless warrior. Meanwhile, the queen must maneuver through the treacherous political factions that divided Judea in her era.The novel rests on years of study of the historical, cultural and religious milieu but it's anything but pedantic. Petsonk avoids the plaster characters and stilted oratory that too many other historical novels set in the ancient world employ and tells a story that is both exciting and moving.
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Queen of the Jews (Audible Audio Edition) Judy Petsonk Pamela Wolken Books Reviews
I found the fighting confusing and felt the subject matter could have been improved. I anticipated a better and clearer
description of the community lacking in confusion.
I enjoy stories whose authors take an historical figure about whom little is known, and try to fill in the blanks with talent, imagination, and solid research. This is such a story. The positives about it are the author's research, which seems solid, and her attempt to make the characters come alive on the page. The main negative was that the black evil and debauchery of the "bad guys" was so extreme that it left a kind of two-dimensional, almost flat ,impression. That flatness may have been inevitable because the story was told in the first person. The protagonist herself was pretty believable because we were able to get "inside her head," to know her thoughts and emotions.Having said that, however, a couple of things did bother me. The first was the emphasis on the queen's virginity. The story makes much of showing the Sanhedrin the bloody sheets of the marriage bed to prove that the queen was a virgin. But this was he second marriage.She was supposed to have been in an unconsummated marriage for several years before her first husband was killed. Why hadn't the Sanhedrin insisted on similar proof from the wedding night with that first husband? My second criticism is that the queen lived in a palace, yet we read very little hint of palace gossip or palace intrigue. For example, couldn't palace gossips inform the queen--or sympathetic members of the Sanhedrin--about a plot to kill the first king? Wouldn't palace servants loyal to a popular queen keep t here informed of her second husband's secret activities or the Sanhedrin's plots? She certainly saw some of the open defiance if one of her goals was to keep peace in Jerusalem, she would have used he servants to advantage. Such details would have fleshed out the story, made it more credible. But regardless, the story is a good one, and a decent addition to the literature.
Historical fiction with a life of its own. Interestingly presented of a brief period in Jewish history and of a strong willed Queen and her family.
This is a vanity book at best. Simple writing with limited perspective. At least the topic was interesting and obscure.
QUEEN OF THE JEWS by Judy Petsonk was not exactly as I pictured it to be, but I soon fell into the spell of wanting to keep reading this ancient palace intrigue. It was compelling to watch Salome Alexandra twist in the wind of her religious convictions as she struggled to bring peace to Judea without murdering her warrior husband and choosing which of her sons should live to reign after her.
I purchased the version yesterday and finished it this evening. Every time I could put work aside, I returned to find out what happened next. Major outlines of the story - including the massacre of 800 Pharisees - conform to Josephus' account. The characters, motivations, and conversations are plausibly - vididly - imagined. The author's background as a journalist is reflected in the spare prose. Nothing felt overdone or overwrought, neither the sex nor the violence.
I loved the book and hope for more from this writer, whether historical or contemporary fiction.
This book was not what I expected after reading the publisher's review, which said it was a "fun read". I found it very dry without sufficient character development. Why were her sons the way they were and what did she do to try to change their characters? Seemingly nothing but complain! Salome Alexandra got things done, but she did not leave the country in a position to endure after her passing. I was interested in reading this book because I never knew about this "Jewish Queen", but I found Salome Alexandra to be a very unsympathetic protagonist.and the book to be more of a recitation of events than a story.
Queen of the Jews makes the history of Judea and the Jewish people in the first century BCE come alive. She recreates in fiction the life of the queen of Judea Shulamit-Zion (or Salome Alexandra) in that turbulent era. This was a trying time for the queen and for Judea, marked by bitter internal conflicts and ongoing warfare. Petsonk takes an historical personage about whom little is known and creates an intriguing, intricate fictional character. Shulamit-Zion is both excited and repelled by her husband, a brutal but often commanding presence, but she must prevent his wars of conquest from from destroying Judea. She bears two sons; the older becomes a disappointment, a passive, cowardly boy and man. The younger is taken by his father and raised to be a conscienceless warrior. Meanwhile, the queen must maneuver through the treacherous political factions that divided Judea in her era.
The novel rests on years of study of the historical, cultural and religious milieu but it's anything but pedantic. Petsonk avoids the plaster characters and stilted oratory that too many other historical novels set in the ancient world employ and tells a story that is both exciting and moving.
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