Shemhazai's Game

by Harry Ringel

Overview

Fallen Angels, Nephilim giants-how prolific these Biblical figures from Genesis 6 have become in popular culture! Bare-chested male hunks and huge-bosomed temptresses, semi-divine or semi-demonic, grace the covers of innumerable novels. They are illustrators' favorites in card and video games from Magic the Gathering to Final Fantasy. Azazel, Lilith, and their like have propelled the Supernatural TV series through many seasons.

Shemhazai's Game, a novel of Jewish fantasy, spins these legends in an entirely different direction. It carries the reader not into traditional Judaism but the realm of Kabbalah, the collective term for Zohar, the Apocrypha, the Pseudepigrapha, and other works of Jewish mysticism. It opens doors for curious readers wishing to explore this "Other Judaism."

Above all, it is a work of fiction-one in which two all-too-human characters, rooted in disharmony, are challenged to find each other in the labryinth of Shemhazai's Game. Forty-year-old Debbie and her mentally handicapped 37-year- old brother Jacob are not simply strangers to each other, they are enemies. Fallen angel Shemhazai enters their battle . . . and carries his own agenda with him.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781732788275
Publisher:	Auctus Publishers
Publication date:	02/15/2020
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.48(d)

Editorial Reviews

“If Kabbalah has interested you, yet you have felt unsure as to where to begin to learn about it, or are concerned that its topics may be too deep to understand, then Shemhazai’s Game will be of great help to you. The story takes you by the hand and leads you on your journey. Quotes from actual sources, both ancient and modern, serve as guideposts along the way. This novel’s insights glow within the relationship between the two main characters, Debbie and Jacob—and reflect outwards to us all.”

—Rabbi Shaya Deitsch, Lubavitch of Montgomery County

“The breadth and depth of Harry Ringel’s extraordinary Shemhazai’s Game make it impossible to categorize. It combines the elements of the fantasy genre with the world of Jewish mysticism buttressed by Biblical text while remaining true to the paradigms of a literary novel. All the while, the reader is immersed in a spellbinding narrative that seamlessly flows from one world to the other with characters so compelling they will remain with the reader long after the tale is over.”

—Richard D. Bank is the author of eight books, most recently of

I Am Terezin and Feig

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