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Summary: Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent family who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. From...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005

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Summary: Dinah's happy childhood is spent inside the red tent where the women of her tribe gather and share the traditions and turmoil of ancient womanhood. The film recounts the story of Dinah's mothers Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah, the four wives of Jacob. Dinah matures and experiences an intense love that subsequently leads to a devastating loss, and the fate of her family is forever changed....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2015

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE RED

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RED

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Re

Parini, Jay

Summary: "A historical novel of the Apostle Paul, whose tireless and epic preaching of the message of Jesus brought Christianity into existence and changed human history. In relating Paul's epic journeys, both geographical and spiritual, the author unfolds a vivid panorama of the ancient world on the verge of epochal change, while in the alternating voice of the Gospel writer Luke, Paul's travel...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAR

Summary: Cats: The Jellicle Cats gather in their junkyard, preparing for the Jellicle Ball, for this is the night when patriarch Old Deuteronomy will choose a cat to be reborn into a new life on the Heavyside Layer. There are stories, songs, and dances from Victoria the White Cat, Munkustrap, Rum Tum Tugger, Grizabella, Jemima, Gus the Theatre Cat, Jellylorum, Skimbleshanks, Macavity, Demeter and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS AND

Kimmel, Eric A.

Summary: Grandma Mina's Persian carpet sends twins Scarlett and Sam to Egypt in the time of Moses, where they come to understand that every Jew was part of the first Passover, and just what made it different from all other nights.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kar-Ben Publishing 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Holidays, Call number: J FIC KIM

Huston, Jack

Summary: Having spent years in slavery after false accusation of treason, Jewish nobleman Ben-Hur returns home seeking revenge but his life transforms when he meets a Nazarene named Jesus Christ.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2016

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BEN RATED PG13

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Be

Summary: The story of Joseph told in a Wild West version with Larry the cucumber as the title character. Follow Little Joe's journey as his faith is tested every step of the way.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2003

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV VEG

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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD VEG

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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: J DVD Movie Veggie 2003

Rivers, Francine

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2001

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIV

Smith, Jill Eileen

Summary: "Esther is poised to save her people from annihilation. Relying on a fragile trust in a silent God, can she pit her wisdom against a vicious enemy and win?"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMI

Yolen, Jane

Summary: Seven-year-old Miriam places her baby brother's basket in the Nile River, watches the Pharoah's daughter draw him out and name him Moses, and ponders a vision of other water parting. Includes note on the biblical story on which this is based.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Yolen 2020

Milton, John

Summary: "This Norton Critical Edition is designed to make Paradise Lost accessible for student readers, providing invaluable contextual and biographical information and the tools students need to think critically about this landmark epic. Gordon Teskey's freshly edited text of Milton's masterpiece is accompanied by a new introduction and substantial explanatory annotations. Spelling and punctuation...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.4 MIL

Brooks, Geraldine

Summary: Traces the arc of King David's journey from obscurity to fame, from shepherd to soldier, from hero to traitor, from beloved king to murderous despot and into his remorseful and diminished dotage.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRO

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRO

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRO

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRO

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Brooks 2015

Phillips, Graham.

Contents: Imprisoned for eternity -- Prelude to heresy -- City of the sun -- The Amarna queens -- Secrets of the three tombs -- The mystery of Tutankhamun -- The one God -- The children of Israel -- Cataclysm -- Exodus -- Strangers in a strange land -- The angel of death.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bear & Co. 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 001.94 PHI

Cline, Eric H.

Contents: Introduction -- The Garden of Eden -- Noah's ark -- Sodom and Gomorrah -- Moses and the Exodus -- Joshua and the Battle of Jericho -- The ark of the covenant -- The ten lost tribes of Israel -- Epilogue.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 221.67 CLI

Rice, Anne

Summary: Presents a new novel by the author of Interview with the Vampire, incorporating the latest New Testament scholarship to chronicle the life of Jesus Christ, from his early years, through his ministry, through his final days, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascent to heaven. Having completed the two cycles of legend to which she has devoted her career so far, Anne Rice gives us now her most...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIC

Summary: To escape the edict that condemned all first-born Hebrew males by Egypt's Pharoah, Rameses I, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Seti. Moses gains Seti's favor and the love of the throne princess Nefertiri. He also gains the hatred of Seti's son, Rameses....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount DVD 2006

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TEN

Graham, Cliff.

Summary: In ancient Israel, at the crossroads of the great trading routes, a man named Benaiah is searching for a fresh start and joins a band of soliders led by a warlord named David. Some are loyal to David, but others are only with him for the promise of captured wealth. Over the course of ten days, from snowy mountain passes to sword-wracked battlefields, Benaiah and his fellow mercenaries must...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRA

Rivers, Francine

Contents: Tamar -- Rahab -- Ruth -- Bathsheba -- Mary.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIV

Tenney, Tommy

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TEN

Card, Orson Scott.

Summary: The first novel in a trilogy on the women of Genesis, focusing on the life of Sarah, a devoted wife, and follower of the God of Abraham, who is chosen to experience a miracle.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAR

Cahill, Thomas.

Summary: The Gifts of the Jews reveals the critical change that made western civilization possible. Within the matrix of ancient religions and philosophies, life was seen as part of an endless cycle of birth and death; time was like a wheel, spinning ceaselessly. Yet somehow, the ancient Jews began to see time differently. For them, time had a beginning and an end; it was a narrative, whose triumphant...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.0492 CAH

Anderson, Bernhard W.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Prentice-Hall 1986

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 221.6 AnD

Burton, Ann.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2006

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BUR

Rivers, Francine

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2001

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIV

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