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Few New Testament characters are as fascinating as Simon Barjona, the man called Peter-a reluctant disciple who changed the face of Christianity. For more than twenty-five 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...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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Historian of religion Ehrman takes readers on a tour of the early Christian church, illuminating the lives of three of Jesus' most intriguing followers: Simon Peter, Paul of Tarsus, and Mary Magdalene. What do the writings of the New Testament tell us about each of these key followers of Christ? What legends have sprung up about them in the centuries after their deaths? Was Paul bow-legged and bald? Was Peter crucified upside down? Was Mary Magdalene...
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Our Sunday Visitor
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"In 1939, a team of workers beneath the Vatican unearthed an early Christian grave. This surprising discovery launched a secret quest that would last decades--a quest to discover the long-lost burial place of the apostle Peter. From earliest times, Christian tradition held that Peter--a lowly fisherman from Galilee, whom Christ made leader of his Church--was executed in Rome by Emperor Nero and buried on Vatican Hill. But his tomb had been lost to...
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