Princess Tamar's Tears

The Faces series is an attempt to paint as honestly as possible the faces of characters
we read about in the Bible, so that readers could identify and relate to the naked,
common life truths that these characters present, and hold to the promises that each
story or event offers to us as we seek to know and walk with God.
Walking through the Bible, an adult Sunday School class enters 11 Samuel 13, a dark
room where a princess is found weeping. She has been sexually abused by her half
brother while her family members conspire a cover-up. Her own brother, her mother's
son, secretly vows revenge on the aggressor as well as on his father, King David. The
succeeding chaos multiplies, and Tamar, the victim, sticks her face out of the closet to
tell the pain of it all only to fi nd that her story holds relevant connections to a number
of class members, and in fact, to many readers in the contemporary world.