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April 2009
Compiled by Elissa Ewret, of Sioux City Public Library from contributions by the members of Fiction_L

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Asch, Sholem Mary     Mary (Mother of Jesus);  Moses;  The Apostle (Paul);  The Nazarene;  The Prophet (Isaiah)
Austin, Lynn      The Lord is my Strength (Hezekiah)
Berg, Elizabeth    The Handmaid and the Carpenter (Women in the Bible)
Blythe, LeGette     Man on Fire (Paul)
Buechner, Anthony     The Son of Laughter (Jacob)
Burgess, Anthony      Man of Nazareth (Jesus);   The Kingdom of the Wicked (Resurrection, early church)
Burton, Ann     Women in the Bible
Caldwell, Taylor     Dear and Glorious Physician (Luke);   I, Judas;   Pillar of Iron (Cicero)
Callaghan, Morley     A Time for Jesus
Card, Orson Scott     Rachel and Leah (Women of Genesis);     Rebekah (Women of Genesis);      Sarah (Women of Genesis);      Stone Tables
Carse, James P.      Jesus
Cash, Johnny      Man in White (Paul)
Costain, Thomas B.     The Silver Chalice (Last supper and after the crucifixion)
Crace, Jim     Quarantine (Jesus and four others fast in the desert of Judea)
Diamant, Anita      The Red Tent (Dinah, the daughter of Jacob and Leah)
Dorr, Robert Kells     Solomon's Song;   The Queen of Sheba
Douglas, Lloyd C.      The Big Fisherman,  The Robe
Edghill, India     Queenmaker: A novel of King David's Queen (Michal)
Elliot, Elissa     Eve: A novel of the first woman
Etzioni-Halevy, Eva     Women in the Bible
George, Margaret     Mary, called Magdalene
Graves, Robert     Claudius the God;   I, Claudius
Halter, Marek      Women in the Bible
Henderson, Lois T.     Abigail;   Hagar;  Lydia;   Priscilla and Aquilla;   Ruth;   Touch of the Golden Scepter
Holmes, Marjorie      The Messiah;   Three from Galilee;   Two from Galilee
Hunt, Angela     Women in the Bible
Joyce, Graha     Requiem (Mary Magdalene)
Kazantzakis, Nikos     The Last Temptation of Christ
Kingsbury, Karen     Women in the Bible
Kohn, Rebecca      Women in the Bible

Lagerkvist, Par     Barabbas
Lemmons, Thom     Daughter of Jerusalem (Mary Magdalene);  Jabez: A novel
Longfellow, Ki      Women in the Bible
Maier, Paul    Pontius Pilate
Mailer, Norman    The Gospel According to the Son (Fictional memoir of Jesus)
Maine, David     Book of Sampson;  Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel;   The Preservationist (Noah)
Malvern, Gladys     Behold Your Queen (Esther);  Rhoda of Cyprus;  The Foreigner (Ruth);  Tamar;  The Secret Sign (Early Christianity, Rome)
Martin, Malachi     King of Kings (David)
May, Antoinette     Women in the Bible
McNarie, Alan Decker     St. Thomas
Meyer, Gabriel     Joseph
Nash, N. Richard    Behold the Man (Jesus)
Pater, Walter     Marius the Epicurean
Rice, Anne     Out of Egypt (Christ the Lord);   Road to Cana (Christ the Lord)
Ripley, Alexandra    A Love Divine (Joseph of Arimathea)
Rivers, Francine     A Voice in the Wind (Early Church);   An Echo in the Darkness (Early Church);   As Sure as the Dawn (Early Church);   Unveiled (Tamar);    Lineage of Grace (Women of the Bible);   Sons of Encouragement (Men of the Bible)
Roberts, Michele     Mary Magdalene
Rourke, Mary     Women in the Bible
Saramago, Jose     Jesus
Shaw, Lorna J.      Women in the Bible
Shott, James      Abigail (Wife of King David);   Bathsheba
Tarr, Judith     Pillar of Fire (Moses)
Traylor, Ellen Guderson     Jerusalem, the City of God;   Joseph, Dreamer of Dreams;  Malchizedek, King of Jerusalem
Van Dyke, Henry     The Story of the Other Wise Man
Wagerin, Walter     Paul: A Novel;   The Book of God (Bible as a novel)
Walsh, John Evangelist     The Man Who Buried Jesus (Nicodemus)
Waltari, Mika     The Egyptian (Life during the reign of Akhnaton);   The Etruscan (500 B.C.);     The Roman (Persecution of early Christians)
Webb, Michael     The Master's Quilt (Garrison under Pontius Pilate)
Wilcheck, Stella     Judith (From Apocrypha)
Williams, John     Augustus (Emperor)
Wilson, Dorothy Clarke     Prince of Egypt (Moses);   The Gifts (Jesus)
Wise, Robert L.     The Fall of Jerusalem (Josephus)
Wright, Patricia     Shadow of the Rock (David)
Yourcenar, Marguerite     Memoirs of Hadrian (Emperor)

 
 
      
   
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