Includes biblical events viewed through the eyes of minor characters.

Filled with carefully researched cultural and historical background.

Follows the biblical story in chronological order.

Priests and kings, apostles and prophets, common folk and charismatic leaders-individual stories offer glimpses into an unfolding revelation that reaches across the centuries to touch us today. From Abraham wandering in the desert to Jesus teaching the multitudes on a Judean hillside, this award-winning bestseller follows the biblical story from start to finish. The Book of God reads like a novel, dramatizing the sweep of biblical events, bringing to life the men and women of this ancient book in vivid detail and dialogue. This book brought to life stories from the Bible that I've read many times and yet seemed to have lost their impact.Experience the Bible as a singular, powerful story and prepare to be swept away by Scripture as never before! Wangerin's 'Bible storybook for adults' features brilliant settings, dramatized scenes, and added dialogue-all gleaned from extensive research. In his book, Wangerin describes the temple and the channels for taking sacrifice blood away from the altar, and how this is the way the blood got mingled - a detail I hadn’t previously appreciated. In the Bible, Jesus is told that Pilate had mixed Galilean blood with Jewish sacrifices. There are also interesting historical facts dropped in to give context which I found useful for seeing why some things happened as they did such as the insight into Luke 13 v 1. For example, Wangerin tells the stories of Samson as a series of ‘once upon a time’ tales that I can imagine families telling each other and passing down through generations before they were written down to read. Each section is told in an easy-to-read way, giving insight into different Bible characters and what they may have been feeling as they interacted with God and his people. He starts with Abram and works his way through sections of the Bible: The Ancestors The Covenant The Wars of the Lord Kings Prophets Letters from Exile The Yearning The Messiah, and The Epilogue.

In this book, the author aims to make the Bible flow like it would if you were reading a novel. The Bible is actually a collection of books written in different styles over many centuries and this can make it hard to read as a whole, even if you use a modern translation. Recently, however, I have recently been reading ' The Book of God' by Walter Wangerin which is the Bible as a novel. I have a young child and, as a result, I don't get around to reading my Bible much.

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