Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Ne=7107&N=7431+4294959527 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714085 Beginning with the creation of man and ending with the revelation of a new world, readers will revel in this epic saga of warriors, rebels, poets, and kings, all called upon by God to reveal His enduring love for mankind. Ultimately, Gods plan is fulfilled in the story of Jesus the Messiah, whose life, death and resurrection brings salvation to one and all.--Dust jacket. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1677512 After a shocking discovery in Masada, Israel, Sergeant Jordan Stone, Father Rhun Korza and Dr. Erin Granger, racing against time to recover a book written by Christs own hand, must contend with a force of ancient evil with impossible ambitions and a secret sect within the Vatican called the Sanguines. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694781 After a shocking discovery in Masada, Israel, Sergeant Jordan Stone, Father Rhun Korza and Dr. Erin Granger, racing against time to recover a book written by Christs own hand, must contend with a force of ancient evil with impossible ambitions and a secret sect within the Vatican called the Sanguines. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729667 Beginning with the creation of man and ending with the revelation of a new world, readers will revel in this epic saga of warriors, rebels, poets, and kings, all called upon by God to reveal His enduring love for mankind. Ultimately, Gods plan is fulfilled in the story of Jesus the Messiah, whose life, death and resurrection brings salvation to one and all.--Dust jacket. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729583 A reimagining of the story of Jesus Christ in which the death of a sermon-giving, sick-healing Jewish man in Roman-occupied Judea prompts four people to tell their tales. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1674846 As children, Lazarus and Jesus were thick as thieves, but their friendship dwindled in early adulthood. One man struck out and became a flamboyant and successful businessman, the other stayed behind to learn a trade, and ultimately to find his calling in an unprecedented mix of spirituality and revolutionary zeal. Lazarus dies. Jesus weeps. Lazarus rises-- but hes about to discover that returning from the dead isnt easy at all. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1676132 A provocative imagining of the later years of the mother of Jesus finds her living a solitary existence in Ephesus years after her sons crucifixion and struggling with guilt, anger, and feelings that her son is not the son of God and that His sacrifice was not for a worthy cause. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705454 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1054743 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1113942 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1675638 When bones with ancient Greek inscriptions are found amidst the wreckage from an Eiffel Tower attack, a paleoarchaeologist and Special Forces officer learn that they belong to John the Baptist and may lead them to Jesuss remains. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1298502 The Carnegie Medal and Whitbread Book of the Year-winning author of the His Dark Materials trilogy presents a controversial reassessment of the life of Jesus that considers his dual nature, challenges key Gospel stories and considers the formulation of key Church tenets. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1114110 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1014770 From his unceremonious birth in Bethlehem to his ultimate betrayal in Jerusalem, Jesus presents a riveting and soul-stirring account of the remarkable story of one of the worlds most important figures. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=888395 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=936515 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=957869 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=942248 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1301934 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=810958 An inspirational portrait of Jesus Christ re-examines his transformational odyssey from humble carpenters son to revolutionary leader whose stirring ministry and teachings would transform the world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1133038 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=809529 An inspirational portrait of Jesus Christ re-examines his transformational odyssey from humble carpenters son to revolutionary leader whose stirring ministry and teachings would transform the world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=721943 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=811581 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=765987 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=736121 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=726201 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=712938 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=773270 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=783551 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=700046 At the crossroads of Christian, Islamic, and Jewish faiths, an ancient artifact is stolen from a long-hidden vault located directly beneath Jerusalems Temple Mount... So begins The Sacred Bones by Michael Byrnes, a novel from a new voice on the thriller scene. With the violent theft leaving thirteen Israeli soldiers and policemen dead, and the Palestinians up in arms over the desecration of sacred grounds, the tension between the two groups is dangerously high. Jerusalem is a stick of dynamite and the fuse has been lit. Across the Mediterranean in Italy, American forensic scientist Charlotte Hennesey has been hired by the Vatican to examine the contents of a newly discovered archeological treasure: a two-thousand-year-old ossuary containing the bones of an unidentified, crucified man - the first complete skeleton of a crucifixion victim ever found. Together with Italian anthropologist Giovanni Bersei, Charlotte makes startling forensic and genetic discoveries that lead her to wonder - could these be the bones of Jesus Christ? With the situation in Jerusalem veering out of control and the malevolent eye of Vatican security expert Salvatore Conte watching her every step, Charlotte puts two and two together. She knows that if the mortal remains of Christ are indeed in the burial box, the implications - for history and science, for religion and the Church - are frighteningly vast. And even more immediate is the question of whether the Vatican will allow the information - and Charlotte - to see the light of day.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=623455 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=685114 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=648554 Two thousand years ago, Mary Magdalene hid a set of scrolls in the rocky foothills of the French Pyrenees, a gospel that contained her own version of the events and characters of the New Testament. Protected by supernatural forces, these sacred scrolls could be uncovered only by a special seeker, one who fulfills the ancient prophecy of The Expected One. When journalist Maureen Pascal begins the research for a new book, she has no idea that she is stepping into an ancient mystery so secret, so revolutionary, that thousands have killed and died for it. Maureens journey takes her from the dusty streets of Jerusalem to the cathedrals of Paris--and ultimately to search for the scrolls themselves.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=679875 Two thousand years ago, Mary Magdalene hid a set of scrolls in the rocky foothills of the French Pyrenees, a gospel that contained her own version of the events and characters of the New Testament. Protected by supernatural forces, these sacred scrolls could be uncovered only by a special seeker, one who fulfills the ancient prophecy of The Expected One. When journalist Maureen Pascal begins the research for a new book, she has no idea that she is stepping into an ancient mystery so secret, so revolutionary, that thousands have killed and died for it. Maureens journey takes her from the dusty streets of Jerusalem to the cathedrals of Paris--and ultimately to search for the scrolls themselves. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=648474 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=725835 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=686187 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1294074 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=592086 The mysterious envelope arrives on Nick Cominskys desk amid a stack of credit card applications and business-related junk mail. Although his seventy-hour workweek has already eaten into his limited family time, Nick cant pass up the opportunity to see what kind of plot his colleagues have hatched. The normally confident, cynical Nick soon finds himself thrown off-balance, drawn into an intriguing conversation with a baffling man who appears to be more than comfortable discussing everything from world religions to the existence of heaven and hell. And this man who calls himself Jesus also seems to know a disturbing amount about Nicks personal life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=563480 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=567808 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=596924 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=543592 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=514444 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=497603 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=446346 For more than 25 years, author and pastor Larry Huntsperger has spent hundreds of hours studying New Testament documents in preparation for writing this fictional first-person account of the life of this enigmatic disciple. The result is a novel that faithfully follows Scripture while offering a powerful, fresh narration of the story of one of Christianitys greatest men. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=483250 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=408829 The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years - except Biff. Ever since the day when he came upon six-year-old Joshua of Nazareth resurrecting lizards in the village square, Levi bar Alphaeus, called Biff, had the distinction of being the Messiahs best bud. Thats why the angel Raziel has resurrected Biff from the dust of Jerusalem and brought him to America to write a new gospel, one that tells the real, untold story. Meanwhile, Raziel will order pizza, watch the WWF on TV, and aspire to become Spider-Man. Verily, the story Biff has to tell is a miraculous one, filled with remarkable journeys, magic, healings, kung fu, corpse reanimations, demons, and hot babes - whose considerable charms fall to Biff to sample, since Josh is forbidden the pleasures of the flesh. (There are worse things than having a best friend who is chaste and a chick magnet!) And, of course, there is danger at every turn, since a young man struggling to understand his godhood, who is incapable of violence or telling anything less than the truth, is certain to piss some people off. Luckily, Biff is a whiz at lying and cheating - which helps get his divine pal and him out of more than one jam. And while Joshs great deeds and mission of peace will ultimately change the world, Biff is no slouch himself, blessing humanity with enduring contributions of his own, like sarcasm and cafe latte. Even the considerable wiles and devotion of the Saviors pal may not be enough to divert Joshua from his tragic destiny. But theres no one who loves Josh more - except maybe Maggie, Mary of Magdala - and Biff isnt about to let his extraordinary pal suffer and ascend without a fight.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=434422 A strange phenomenon grips the world of today - and yesterday. A shepherd boy appears outside a scientific facility at Los Alamos, New Mexico, babbling in an ancient tongue. At the same time, two thousand years ago, mortal fear grips a queen whose murderous ambitions are boundless, as she entertains her subjects with screams of dying men in an arena. Brutal jihad terrorists slip through the hole in time, on a mysterious and deadly quest to change the course of history. To stop them, three innocent people, two men and a woman, are sent back on the most exciting mission in history - to unravel a mystery and stop a killer. Back to a time when the people of Israel chafed under the heel of Roman legions and a brutal queen used sex and murder in a scheme for empire.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=485660 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=753450 Two boyhood friends -- Judah Ben-Hur, a prince of the Jews, and Messala, a Roman nobleman and soldier -- come to share a deep hatred for what the other has become, particularly as Ben-Hur becomes more interested in the teachings of a Jewish spiritual leader named Jesus. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=275546 The author of the bestselling Piercing the Darkness now tells the story of a small farming town in eastern Washington turned upside-down by supernatural occurrences and visitations of a new Messiah. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=267734 The author of Hannas Daughters masterfully breathes new life into the figure of Mary Magdalene in this triumphal novel of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the woman who loved him most. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=247977 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=202225 This intriguing novel crosses time and space to shed light on a pivotal point in history. A young TV reporter flies from New York to Jerusalem to cover a fast-breaking story: the inexplicable death of Jesus of Nazareth. Besides the woman reporter from the present investigating the murder is Marcus, a soldier in the Roman Empire. Through them we come in contact with everyone involved with Jesus death: Pilate, Herod, Judas, the soldiers who guarded the tomb, and others miraculously cured by Jesus. In this imaginary world characters ride on jet planes and watch television and meet Roman soldiers who still carry swords and ride on horseback. People from the past and present talk to each other, become friends. The two times are kept separate and yet are one, just as they are when we read the Gospel accounts. Something magical happens.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=134138 Now Norman Mailer has written a novel about Jesus life. Is God speaking to me? Jesus asks. Or am I hearing voices? If the voices are from God, why has He chosen me as His son? And if they are not from God, then who gave me the power to perform these miracles? It soon becomes evident that we are being told the story of a skilled and most devout carpenter who is living with prodigious questions. The result, paradoxically, is an intimately readable account of a man thrust forward by the visions he receives, the sermons he offers, and the miracles he enacts until he comes to the apocalyptic end of his powers. The Gospel According to the Son, while adhering closely to the New Testament, also succeeds in vividly re-creating the world of Galilee and Jerusalem two thousand years ago. In a time of uneasy stability, the Holy Land is governed by a complacent but fearful establishment who rule over a despairing underclass - it is a time of great change, open to comparison with our own. Mailers signal accomplishment is to create for us a man wholly unlike others who is nonetheless filled with passion and doubt, strength and weakness; a protagonist divine and human, a son of God who shares our condition.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=258449 A re-imagining of the forty days Christ spent in the wilderness being tempted by the devil. Judea, about two thousand years ago: There were five of them - not in a group, but strung out along the road where earlier that morning the caravan of uncles had passed by. Three men, a woman, and, too far behind for anyone to guess its gender, a fifth. And this fifth was barefoot, and without a staff. No water-skin, or bag of clothes. No food. A slow, painstaking figure, made thin and watery by the rising, mirage heat, as if someone had thrown a stone into the pool of air through which it walked and ripples had diluted it.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=158754 Even though Mary Magdalene was the first person to see Jesus on Easter morning, she had to wait two thousand years for her story to be told. Finally, after all the centuries of silence imposed on Mary Magdalene, on Mary the mother of Jesus, and on the other women who devoted their lives to Jesus, Mary Ellen Ashcroft triumphantly proclaims the stories of these women in this fictional Gospel.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=121666 In the forty-third year of the reign of the Emperor Augustus Caesar, ruler of half the known world, a mischievous thirteen-year-old Roman boy is sent on an errand by his mother. On the way he encounters all the usual sights and sounds of village life in Judaea. But that evening Bethlehem is even more crowded than usual, since his father, the governor of the province, has ordered a census so he can tax all the emperors subjects. Then the boy comes across a sight he will never forget - a man and his pregnant wife are being turned away from an inn, and are preparing to spend the night in a stable.... With a marvelous final double twist that could have come only from the pen of Jeffrey Archer, The First Miracle is destined to take its place beside Dickens A Christmas Carol and Dylan Thomass A Childs Christmas in Wales as a classic of the season.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=228779 Master suspense author Daniel Easterman delivers a sizzling and prophetic new novel of political and religious intrigue, in which nothing less than the future of Christianity and the free world is at stake. Neither the roaring of loud waters nor the burning of bright fires shall deflect me from my Covenant with Thee, O Lord, nor shall the Sons of Light find me faithless. As the spirit of glasnost sweeps across Russia, a noted Moscow scholar uncovers an ancient scroll hidden deep in the vaults of the Lenin Library, where it was brought from Germany at the end of World War II. Frightened by the magnitude of his discovery, Dr. Iosif Sharanskii sends a plea for help to a renowned peer and old friend Dr. Jack Gould. It is only when Gould arrives in Moscow to translate the verse of the parchment that he realizes it contains the radical thoughts and beliefs of Jesus - written in his own hand. What lies before them is quite different from Catholic tradition, and the two men recognize the desperation and panic such ideology would cause within the Vatican. In the interests of scholarship and honesty, Gould agrees to smuggle the scroll out of Russia quickly to have it validated in Israel. But when he witnesses the brutal murder of the entire Sharanskii family and is taken prisoner by a secret Russian security force, Gould begins to wonder who, besides the Vatican, would want possession of the scroll - and why. From the heart of Moscow to the safe houses of London, Gould searches for answers, knowing he is only one step ahead of his pursuers. He will stop at nothing to uncover the truth - even if it means the end of Christianity. A shockingly realistic thriller, The Judas Testament blends historical fact with fiction and keeps you riveted from the first page to the last.--BOOK JACKET.