The Unfavored Emily E.K. Meserve With thousands on animals to

With thousands on animals to sift through

Will Durant

memory and a fading past

are ‘dominating the Earth for a brief period of increasing splendour')

This book reflects not only his disarming sense of humor

The Unfavored Emily E.K. Meserve With thousands on animals toFollowing upon the work of Jewish scholars who have attempted to rehabilitate the notion of chosenness in the Hebrew Bible and that of other scholars who have focused more narrowly on the fate of non Israelites in the Old Testament, The Unfavored centers on the role of unfavored characters within Israelspecifically, Judah and Saul. Josef Sykora examines two narratives with seemingly opposite trajectories: the Joseph cycle in Genesis 3750 and the Saul