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A unique visual guide to the main characters of the Old and New Testaments, from Adam to Paul the Apostle. Understand who's who in the Old and New Testaments with this visual guide to the main characters in the Bible. Packed with profiles of leaders, prophets, judges, and apostles, Bible Characters Visual Encyclopedia tells their stories and explains their teachings simply and clearly. Stories are beautifully illustrated and supported with key quotes and historical context. Spreads focusing on particular biblical events highlight a character's impact - making this the perfect study companion and the ultimate guide for young readers to the key characters in one of the most important books ever written.

Alternating poems compare and contrast the conflicted feelings of Ishmael, son of the Biblical patriarch Abraham, and Sam, a teenager in New York City, as they try to come to terms with being abandoned by their fathers and with the love they feel for their younger stepbrothers.

A collection of essays that presents various perspectives on the relationship between church and state.

From the early ancestors of the middle stone ages to the Greeks and Romans in 40 BCE, countless civilizations and people have lived in the eastern Mediterranean area known as the Bible Lands. Discover the story of the Holy Lands and the people who lived there before the time of Christ in DK Eyewitness Books: Bible Lands, now available in paperback for the first time.

Misplaced for hundreds of years, this book details the account of the search for, and exciting excavation of the city the Bible calls Sodom, and history calls Tall el-Hammam, east of the Jordan River.

hundreds of fun facts, quizzes, and other Bible trivia.