palestine

A picture book version of the story of Guy Haydon and his horse Midnight, who joined the Australian Light Horse during World War I and took part in one of the last great cavalry charges in history.

In 1924 British Palestine, Mark Bloomberg, a disillusioned London painter, arrives with his American wife and accidentally witnesses the murder of a prominent Orthodox Jew and becomes embroiled in an investigation which threatens both their marriage and their lives.

Examines the history of Palestine under British rule, from 1917 to 1948, and traces the roots of the conflict between the Arabs and Jews that continues to plague the region into the year 2000.

In the Days of Jesus fills a need for college classes and adult readers who have not yet been introduced to modern biblical scholarship, but who have limited time at their disposal to learn to read the gospels in their historical context. Written in easy, fluent style, the book tells the story of the Jewish context for the life of Jesus and for the community's accounts of him.

Powers stretches Jesus' passion out over the last year of the public ministry, not restricting it to its culmination on Calvary.

Grant looks at the Gospels with an historian's eye, treating them in exactly the same way as he would any other works of ancient literature capable of yielding historical information.

Makes the life of Christ visual before our eyes.