- Author: Itamar Perath
- Language: English
- Category: Non Fiction
Not Quite as in the Scriptures: Reality and Fiction in the Bible
In a beautiful, fascinating retelling of Scripture, Ithamar Perath embodies the angels of biblical times, using their voices to reimagine history.
Book by book, chapter by chapter, an alternative, secular Bible is born – new, yet still familiar.
This new Bible weaves together drama, history, epic poetry, and personal experience, providing answers to long-unresolved questions. The list includes, among many biblical items, inquiries into a large number of elusive historical questions, such as:
What happened to the Holy Ark?
Who was the mother of King David?
Wherefrom was Solomon’s wisdom?
Who wrote the second book of Isaiah?
Perath takes the timeless stories of the Bible, examining them through the prism of scripture, paleography, archaeology, and geology. Based on these, he lets his imagination run free, conjuring a new, captivating account of the world’s best-known stories.