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Language
English
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The ancient world and its politics come to life through the eyes of a young Jewish woman, Mary of Nazareth
Miriam–also known as Mary–was born into a Palestine oppressed by Herod the Great; she is accustomed to living with uncertainty and unrest. But when her beloved father is wrongly imprisoned by the Romans, she takes action. She calls upon a well-known rebel by the name of Barabbas, and together they set out to save her father. A...
Miriam–also known as Mary–was born into a Palestine oppressed by Herod the Great; she is accustomed to living with uncertainty and unrest. But when her beloved father is wrongly imprisoned by the Romans, she takes action. She calls upon a well-known rebel by the name of Barabbas, and together they set out to save her father. A...
Author
Series
Canaan trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
His name was Abraham and, although he was a member of a poor nomadic tribe, their encounter that night was enough to convince Sarah that their future lay together. And so Sarah abandoned everything - wealth, family and status - to follow Abraham and his alien God; a God of whom no one had ever heard.
Sarah is the daughter of a lord in the Sumerian city-state Ur. Sarah balks at her father's choice of a husband and flees to the tent-city below. She...
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