Deborah Rising
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The team at HarperCollins Publishers and HarperLegend has been incredibly supportive and professional, including Hannah Rivera, who guided me during the initial stages, Anna Paustenbach, who steered the manuscript through its multiple stages with unfailing expertise, judicious counsel, and good humor, and copyeditor Kathy Reigstad who made numerous improvements to the manuscript. Needless to say, the responsibility for any mistakes or typographical errors would be mine alone.
In the course of preparing to write Deborah’s story, I consulted countless books and articles about the way people had lived in the ancient Mideast. They are too many to list here in full, but I am particularly indebted to the scholarly works of William F. Albright, Yigael Yadin, Avraham Biran, Israel Finkelstein, Benjamin Mazar, Amihai Mazar, William G. Dever, Joyce Salisbury, Carol Meyers, Thomas E. Levi, George Hart, Bruce Routledge, Richard Elliot Friedman, Geraldine Harris, Richard Wilkinson, Boyd Seevers, Gale A. Yee, Brian Schmidt, Alan Dickin, Monroe Rosenthal, Isaac Mozenson, Diana Vikander Edelman, Hershel Shanks, and Claudia Valentino.
And the greatest debt of gratitude I owe to you, my readers, for choosing to spend your precious reading time with my books, for sending me intriguing comments through my website, and for posting thoughtful reviews on your favorite websites. Please know that you are the ones who make it all meaningful and worthwhile. Thank you!
About the Author
AVRAHAM AZRIELI is the author of nine fiction and nonfiction works. He is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, the International Thrillers Writers Association, the Historical Writers of America, the Historical Novel Society, the Authors Guild, and other professional societies, and his work has been reviewed by numerous outlets, including the Examiner, US Review of Books, the New York Daily News, the Jewish Journal, and San Francisco Book Review. He lives in Maryland. Visit him online at azrielibooks.com.
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Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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