HAVE YOU AVE YOU HEARD OF THE WOMAN who dropped a millstone from a tower on an attacking general's head? Or the woman whose parable convinced King David to change his political policy?

Or the queen who refused to perform for the drunken king and his courtiers?

These are only a few of the fascinating women you will meet in Thomas John Carlisle's Eve and After, a collection of poems about women in the Old Testament.

While the "great women"-Eve, Sarah, Ruth, Esther, and others will be found here, many of those lesser known - including Sisera's mother, Lamech's daughters, the midwives Shiphrah and Puah -are also included Carlisle's fresh perceptions break through the cultural stereotypes to shed new and well-deserved light on more than eighty Old Testament women

Annotated with references to the pertinent biblical passages, and including a helpful study guide, this collection of poetic portraits. will lead readers to discover for themselves the humanity, the courage, and the variety of these often overlooked women in the Old Testament