Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, tells the story of her mothers, Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah, and the gifts they gave that sustained her through a damaged youth, a calling to midwifery, and a new home in a foreign land.
Retells the biblical story of Mary and Joseph, beginning with their meeting at a wedding and ending with the birth of their son, Jesus, and their life in Nazareth.
While living in Pharoah's palace in ancient Egypt, Miriam, the sister of Moses in the Hebrew scriptures, struggles to remain loyal to her people and her God.
A slave girl convinces her master, the mighty Syrian general, Naaman, to seek a cure from his leprosy from the prophet Elisha in this novelization of the Old Testament story.
the Gospel according to Biff, Christ's childhood pal
Moore, Christopher
2003
Presents a humorous imagining of Jesus Christ's life, told by his longtime friend, Biff, taking a fresh look at his relationship with Mary Magdelene, the roles of the disciples, his crucifixion, and the Resurrection.
A fictionalized account of the Biblical tale in which a Hebrew infant, rescued by the daughter of the Pharaoh, passes through a turbulent adolescence to eventually become a prophet of his people while his sister finds her true self as a priestess to the Egyptian gods.
The wife, sons, and daughter-in-law of Noe, a man touched by God, describe their struggles to understand and to help when Noe instructs them to gather wood and animals and prepare to spend an unspecified amount of time living together trapped on an ark.
The first novel in a trilogy on the women of Genesis, focusing on the life of Sarah, a devoted wife, and follower of the God of Abraham, who is chosen to experience a miracle.
Noah's daughter, daughters-in-law, sons, wife, and the animals describe what it was like to be aboard the ark while they watched everyone around them drown.
