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Christ the Lord volume 2
Language
English
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Anne Rice’s second book in her hugely ambitious and courageous Life of Christ series begins during his last winter before his baptism in the Jordan and concludes with the miracle at Cana.
It is a novel in which we see Jesus—he is called Yeshua bar Joseph—during a winter of no rain, endless dust, and talk of trouble in Judea.
Legends of a Virgin birth have long surrounded Yeshua, yet for...
It is a novel in which we see Jesus—he is called Yeshua bar Joseph—during a winter of no rain, endless dust, and talk of trouble in Judea.
Legends of a Virgin birth have long surrounded Yeshua, yet for...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Tracing Jesus's footsteps from his boyhood in Nazareth, Wangerin offers an intimate, moment-by-moment unfolding of Jesus--who and how he was and the life he lived--viewed through the eyes of the two people who loved him best: the disciple called "beloved," and the woman Mary, Jesus's mother
Author
Series
Christ the Lord volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Incorporates the latest New Testament scholarship to offer a fictional chronicle of the early years of Jesus Christ.
Author
Series
Jesus chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Putnam Praise
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Recounts the life story of the author of the Gospel of Luke--from his life as a slave to his university studies as a medical student at Tarsus, from his acquaintance with Saul (Paul) of Tarsus to his ultimate discipleship and decision to write the story of Christ.
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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...
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Series
Wives of King David volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Bathsheba is a woman who longs for love. With her devout husband away fighting the king's wars for many months at a time, discontent and loneliness dog her steps--and make it frighteningly easy to succumb to King David's charm and attention. Though she immediately regrets her involvement with the powerful king, the pieces are set in motion that will destroy everything she holds dear. Can she find forgiveness at the feet of the Almighty? Or has her...
Author
Publisher
Ensign Peak
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
This novel imagines how a contemporary of Jesus, Simon, an ordinary spice merchant and a Jew without deeply felt religious beliefs, begins his lifelong journey as one of the first new Christians as his life intersects with Jesus at the major milestones of his life and ministry.
10) Sarah: a novel
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...
11) The blood Gospel
Author
Series
Order of the Sanguines volume 1
Language
English
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Description
After a shocking discovery in Masada, Israel, Sergeant Jordan Stone, Father Rhun Korza, and Dr. Erin Granger, racing against time to recover a book written by Christ's own hand, must contend with a force of ancient evil with impossible ambitions and a secret sect within the Vatican called the Sanguines.
"An earthquake in Masada, Israel, kills hundreds and reveals a tomb buried in the heart of the mountain. A trio of investigators-- Sergeant Jordan...
Author
Series
Daughters of the promised land volume 3
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Author
Series
Maeve chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Monkfish Book Pub. Company
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
℗2015
Language
English
Description
When an ambitious tyrant threatens genocide against the Jews, an inexperienced young queen must take a stand for her people ... When Xerxes, king of Persia, issues a call for beautiful young women, Hadassah, a Jewish orphan living in Susa, is forcibly taken to the palace of the pagan ruler. After months of preparation, the girl known to the Persians as Esther wins the king's heart and a queen's crown. But because her situation is uncertain, she keeps...
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