Description
Here is the story of the Bible from beginning to end as you've never read it before told with exciting detail and passionate energy. The Book of God reads like a fine novel, bringing a wise and beautiful rendering of the Bible, retold by master storyteller Walter Wangerin Jr.
Wangerin recreates the high drama, low comedy, gentle humor, and awesome holiness of the Bible story. Imaginative yet meticulously researched, The Book of God offers a sweeping history that stretches across thousands of years and hundreds of lives, in cultures foreign and yet familiar in their common humanity.
History and fact take on personality and warmth. Wangerin shows you human hands-Abraham raising the knife over his son Isaac on Mount Moriah, a priest offering incense in the temple at Jerusalem, Joseph the carpenter at work with his tools. He shows you human faces-Moses and Aaron face-to-face with the king of Egypt, Mary smiling like a white rose, and Jesus laughing with a Samaritan woman.
Gardens, humble homes, olive groves, palaces, temples, and the hills of Judea shining in the afternoon sun-Wangerin makes the places where the events of the Bible took place come to life in the imagination.
Wangerin helps you understand what it was like for each person to be caught up in the events of a particular time and place a time and place where the eternal God somehow reached out and touched ordinary men and women.
