{"id":472,"date":"2012-09-06T12:17:18","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T17:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/?p=472"},"modified":"2012-09-08T16:02:02","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T21:02:02","slug":"transcript-hadassah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/transcript-hadassah\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcript: Hadassah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/hadassah.gif\" rel=\"colorbox\" class=\"colorbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-473\" title=\"hadassah\" src=\"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/hadassah.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"109\" \/><\/a>Hadassah: One Night with the King\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>by Tommy Tenney is Biblical fiction. The novel begins with a contemporary bride Hadassah, living in Jerusalem. Hadassah has inherited an ancient letter written by her grandmother one hundred times removed, Queen Esther of Persia. The letter had been written in Esther\u2019s later years to a young Jewish girl also chosen, as she had been, as a candidate for Bride of the King.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Queen Esther tells her story as a means of impressing upon the young candidate the utter importance of heeding the protocols of the palace. \u201cYou will never again come this close to such an opportunity for power and influence,\u201d Esther advises her prot\u00e9g\u00e9. \u201cOne night with the King changes everything.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Tenney\u2019s novel is historically accurate and true to the Biblical story of King Xerxes, Mordecai (Esther\u2019s uncle) and Haman, the provincial governor determined to annihilate the Jews. As with any historical fiction, additional characters, back-stories and subplots have been added to put the story in context and to give some motivational explanation to contemporary readers not familiar with ancient cultures and practices. Still, I marveled at how a man could write with such feminine feelings and reasoning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong><em>Unfortunately, a subsequent movie,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><em><strong>One Night with the King<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>, is based on Tenney\u2019s 2004 novel but strays somewhat from the dialog and characters of the book, and takes poetic license with the Biblical account. Tenney has recently written a sequel to Hadassah titled,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong><em>The Hadassah Covenant: A Queen\u2019s Legacy<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u00a0in which he continues his story of the contemporary Hadassah and the young Jewish candidate Leah to whom Queen Esther originally addressed her memoir.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hadassah: One Night with the King\u00a0by Tommy Tenney is Biblical fiction. The novel begins with a contemporary bride Hadassah, living in Jerusalem. Hadassah has inherited an ancient letter written by her grandmother one hundred times removed, Queen Esther of Persia. 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