Wendy Cohen

© 2009
Kadosh L’Cha Publishing
46 pages
$14.00

Parents and Shabbat school teachers, take heed. Something new is on the way. Adonai Keeps His Promise: The King Is Born is not your typical Christ-child nativity story. In fact, every Biblical character is called by their rightful Hebrew name: Mary is Miriam, Joseph is Yosef, Elizabeth is Elisheva, John is Yochanan, Simon is Shimon, and so forth—catapulting the reader into recognizing that the birth of the Messiah took place in a Jewish setting. Totally Jewish.

The first thing you notice when you open this book is the unusual layout—the text is written on an ancient scroll that “unravels” page to page. No detail is spared, including the frayed scroll parchment, helping to set the tone of a time long ago.