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The Story Bible is a book for anyone interested in the Bible. Whether it is for reading popular Bible stories (Noah's Ark, or The Creation Story), or as a down to earth introduction to the Bible. For those already familiar with the Bible this book revives stories that have been read over and over, and adds life and animation to the story.
John Mullan, reviewing the book in British newspaper The Guardian, said the book was "remarkable not just for its story, but also for its narrative form". [4] The Poisonwood Bible was selected for Oprah's Book Club in 1999. Additionally that year, the book was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. [5] It won the 2000 Boeke Prize.
Novels based on the Book of Genesis (1 C, 12 P) N. ... Pages in category "Novels based on the Bible" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total.
Logos (2015), a novel by John Neeleman and published by Homebound Publications, a small press, and winner of an Independent Publisher Book Awards gold medal for religious fiction and the Utah Book Award for fiction, [3] is a bildungsroman that follows the life and development of the anonymous author of the original gospel. Jacob, a former ...
The story is inspired by the Book of Hosea from the Bible, and its central theme is the redeeming love of God towards sinners. By 2020, the novel had sold over three million copies worldwide since its publication in 1991, and was translated into 30 languages. [ 1 ]
The plot of the novel is based around the discovery within Roman ruins of a new gospel written by Jesus' younger brother, James in the first century. In the gospel, many facts of Jesus' life, including the years not mentioned in the Bible, are revealed not to be as factual as they were once thought to be.
However, the Bible has been treated and appreciated as literature; the King James Version in particular has long been considered a masterpiece of English prose, whatever may be thought of its religious significance. Several retellings of the Bible, or parts of the Bible, have also been made with the aim of emphasising its literary qualities.
Deborah Bryan of the Kansas Library Association suggests that this genre of books typically promotes values, teaches a lesson, always has a happy ending (good prevails over evil in all books), adheres to a decency code (certain boundaries such as sexuality, strong language, and topics of such cannot be crossed), and that Christian fiction is ...