Historical novels for NT culture

Kevin W. Woodruff cierpke at prodigy.net
Mon Jul 10 15:44:56 EDT 2000


The Silver Chalice was by Thomas Costain

And to add Taylor Caldwell's "Great Lion of God" and "Dear and Glorious
Physician" on Paul and Luke respectively



At 03:15 PM 7/10/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>I'm not sure these have been mentioned, nor have I read them, but Paul
Meier is a
>NT man, teaching in the Comparative Religion Dept. at WMU, who has also
published a
>few novels set in the first century.  Can't recommend them other than to
say that
>they're there.   And of course there some classic novels from earlier this
century:
>Caldwell Taylor, "The Silver Chalice" by a chap whose name I've forgotten,
"King
>Jesus" was Robert Graves attempt, and of course Ben Hur, which actually
isn't a bad
>read at all.  And someone should have mentioed Quo Vadis?  "The Fourth
Magi"; and a
>couple of others whose covers I can see in my mind, but can't recall the titles
>too.  But they'll come to me if anyone is interested.
>
>Larry Swain
>
>
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