"Can anything new be said about the Virgin Mary? Precisely because she is so ubiquitous, Mary must be rediscovered by each generation.
Intended for a wide audience, Rubin's lectures are eminently readable... this is a book that could be fruitfully assigned to show undergraduates how the world's most famous Jewish mother fits into the broad sweep of medieval and Christian culture and the tragic sweep of her people's history"
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