

As I’ve a tendency not to read blurbs before reviewing a book, I was pleasantly surprised by this narrative retelling of one of the better-known yet perhaps lesser-written parables of the Bible’s Book of Kings (2): that of Naaman, a formidable and haunted Semitic commander who renounced his king and god Rimmon, to worship the one true god Yahweh. The more famous summary of this tale is that Naaman was miraculously cured of leprosy then went on to lead vast crusading armies against the br...
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