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Check out these fiction titles that are set in Bible times.  Many are the start of a series.

Pearl in the Sand: A Novel

Tessa Afshar - Moody Publishers; New Edition edition
Format: Paperback

Can a Canaanite harlot who has made her living by looking desirable to men make a fitting wife for one of the leaders of Israel? Shockingly, the Bible's answer is yes. Pearl in the Sand tells Rahab's untold story. Rahab lives in a wall; her house is built into the defensive walls...

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In the Field of Grace

Tessa Afshar - River North; New Edition edition
Format: Book

Destitute, grief-stricken, and unwanted by the people of God, Ruth arrives in Israel with nothing to recommend her but Naomi's, love. Her loftiest hope is to provide enough food to save Naomi and herself from starvation. But God has other plans for her life. While everyone considers...

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Love Amid the Ashes: A Novel

Mesu Andrews - Revell
Format: Paperback

Readers often think of Job sitting on the ash heap, his life in shambles. But how did he get there? What was Job's life like before tragedy struck? What did he think as his world came crashing down around him? And what was life like after God restored his wealth, health, and family?...

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The Centurion's Wife (Acts of Faith, Book 1)

Davis Bunn - Bethany House Publishers
Format: Book

Janette Oke has dreamed for years of retelling a story in a biblical time frame from a female protagonist's perspective, and Davis Bunn is elated to be working with her again on this sweeping saga of the dramatic events surrounding the birth of Christianity...and the very personal...

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Unveiled: Tamar (The Lineage of Grace Series #1) (No 1)

Francine Rivers - Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.; First Edition edition
Format: Book

2001 Christy Award finalist! Unveiled is the story of Tamar, one of the women in the lineage of Jesus. Francine brings the story to life in her trademark style, showing the grace of God in the life of Tamar and her father-in-law, Judah. Unveiled is the first in the Lineage of Grace series...

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The Priest: Aaron

Francine Rivers - Helbing & Lichtenhahn
Format: Book

The Priest is the first book in a new companion series to A Lineage of Grace. Each novella peers into the life of one of five biblical men (such as Aaron, Jonathan, Silas) who stood behind the great heroes of faith. In The Priest you'll meet Moses' brother Aaron,...

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A Voice in the Wind

Francine Rivers - Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.; 10th Printing edition
Format: Book

The first book in the beloved Mark of the Lion series, A Voice in the Wind brings readers back to the first century and introduces them to a character they will never forget, Hadassah.

While wealthy Roman citizens indulge their every whim, Jews and barbarians are bought...

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The Prophetess: Deborah's Story

Jill Eileen Smith - Revell
Format: Book

Outspoken and fearless, Deborah has faith in God but struggles to see the potential her own life holds. As an Israelite woman, she'll marry, have a family, and seek to teach her children about Adonai--and those tasks seem to be more than enough to occupy her time. But God has another...

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The Well: A Novel

Stephanie Landsem - Howard Books
Format: Book

Could he be the One we've been waiting for? For the women of the Samaritan village of Sychar, the well is a place of blessing - the place where they gather to draw their water and share their lives - but not for Mara. Shunned for the many sins of her mother, Nava, Mara struggles...

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Esther: Royal Beauty

Angela Hunt - Bethany House Publishers
Format: Paperback

A Bible story brought to life! After she is forcibly taken to the palace of the king, a beautiful young Jewish woman, known to the Persians as Esther, wins a queen's crown and then must risk everything in order to save her people . . . and bind her husband's heart...

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John's Story: The Last Eyewitness

Tim LaHaye - Putnam Praise
Format: Book

John's Story: The Last Eyewitness is told by the one whom Jesus called beloved. John, a once-broken man, was forever changed the moment he met the mysterious stranger from Nazareth, his heart opened by the One whom he discovered to be the Son of God.

At ninety years...

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When Jesus Wept

Bodie and Brock Thoene - Zondervan
Format: Book

LAZARUS—the man Jesus raised from the dead in one of the most extraordinary encounters with The Living Savior in all of Scripture. But the life of Lazarus holds interest well beyond this miraculous event. Living in Bethany, near Jerusalem, Lazarus witnessed many of the most important...

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First Light

Bodie Thoene - Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Format: Book

Go back in time to first century Jerusalem - just after the massacre of Jews before Passover - a dark time in the nation's history. Many long to see Yeshua . . . be healed by Yeshua . . . find hope in Yeshua. Others feel threatened and seek to destroy him. Meet Peniel, a blind beggar...

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Leah

James Shott - Throndike Press
Format: Book

Jacob marries two women: Leah, by mistake and Rachel, because she is beautiful and he loves her. Leah becomes the mother of Jacob's children, his companion and adviser, his closest friend. She has everything except what she wants most -- Jacob's love, the love he offers Rachel.

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