Timely New and Recommended Titles From Beacon Press

Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Joan Chittister, and Saadi Shakur Chishti have authored The Tent of Abraham: Stories of Hope and Peace for Jews, Christians, and Muslims.  The book, written by a Scottish American Sufi, an American Jew, and a Bendictine sister, provides readers with stories that can bring all the faiths together. The Tent of Abraham explores the mythic quality and the teachings of reconciliation that are embedded in the Torah, the Qur'an, and the Bible and weaves together the wisdoms of the Jewish, Muslim, and Christian traditions into a deeper, more unified whole.  Robert Edgar, General Secretary of the National Council of Churches wrote in review of The Tent of Abraham, "the stories of our common ancestors told in this book with such creative imagination inspire all of us to build community across the walls that normally divide us."

Rashid Khalidi, author of Beacon Press' Resurrecting Empire, focuses in on Palestinian politics and history in his new book The Iron Cage: the Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood. The story of the Palestinian search to establish a state begins in the era of British control over Palestine and stretches between the two world wars, when colonial control of the region became increasingly unpopular and power began to shift toward the United States. In this crucial period, and in the years immediately following World War II, Palestinian leaders were unable to achieve the long-cherished goal of establishing an independent state - a critical failure that throws a bright light on the efforts of the Palestinians to create a state in the many decades since 1948. By frankly discussing the reasons behind this failure, Khalidi offers a much-needed perspective for anyone concerned about peace in the Middle East.

Marcia Falk is the author of the glorious collection The Book of Blessings: New Jewish Prayers for Daily Life, the Sabbath, and the New Moon Festival. A groundbreaking work in the literature of spirituality, The Book of Blessings offers a complete new liturgy, in Hebrew as well as English, for use in both the home and the community on weekdays, Sabbaths, and the festival of the New Moon. This collection challenges Jewish tradition's patriarchal assumptions, offering, in a poet's language, fresh images for our experience of divinity. A Commentary illuminates the liturgy for scholars and general readers alike.

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