The Moonstone Covenant

“Our world, which industry and science make less recognizable by the decade, necessitates a spiritual age of exploration. More valuable hints and leads may often be gleaned from poems and fantasy novels than from sermons or scholarly articles, and Hammer’s choice of genre fiction as the vehicle for her wisdom cannot be too warmly applauded. She has not simply served up another helping of dybbuks, golems and magic rabbis, the warmed-up the leftovers of Eastern European folklore. Instead she has excavated profound and structural Jewish archetypes. Archetypal forms are not uncommon in fantasy literature:, Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth, for example, traces a classic labyrinth. But to use the archetypes with precision of purpose, infusing ancient symbols with new meaning, as Hammer has here with her Tree of Life whose leaves are pages veined with writing from no man’s hand, is a significant spiritual achievement.” —Mildred Faintly. Read her full review of this book here.