[b-greek] Re: Historical novels for NT culture

From: Kevin W. Woodruff (cierpke@prodigy.net)
Date: Mon Jul 10 2000 - 15:44:56 EDT


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
>
>
>---
>B-Greek home page: http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek
>You are currently subscribed to b-greek as: cierpke@prodigy.net
>To unsubscribe, forward this message to
leave-b-greek-327Q@franklin.oit.unc.edu
>To subscribe, send a message to subscribe-b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu
>
>
>
Kevin W. Woodruff, M.Div.
Library Director/Reference Librarian
Professor of New Testament Greek
Cierpke Memorial Library
Tennessee Temple University/Temple Baptist Seminary
1815 Union Ave.
Chattanooga, Tennessee 37404
United States of America
423/493-4252 (office)
423/698-9447 (home)
423/493-4497 (FAX)
Cierpke@prodigy.net (preferred)
kwoodruf@utkux.utcc.utk.edu (alternate)
http://pages.prodigy.net/cierpke/woodruff.htm


---
B-Greek home page: http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek
You are currently subscribed to b-greek as: [jwrobie@mindspring.com]
To unsubscribe, forward this message to leave-b-greek-327Q@franklin.oit.unc.edu
To subscribe, send a message to subscribe-b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu




This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Sat Apr 20 2002 - 15:36:31 EDT