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Looking Forward to Biblical Fiction in 2020

Welcome back, reader friends. Biblical fiction may not be a prolific genre, but it’s one of my favourites (hence my Biblical Fiction Finder), and I’m looking forward to so many of the biblical fiction releases that are coming up.

As there are relatively few biblical fiction releases, I haven’t separated them by publisher as I’ve done with my previous posts. Here, you will just find the traditionally published releases listed in chronological order followed by the independent and small publisher releases in chronological order.

And speaking of my previous posts, make sure you check them out if you’ve missed them!

15 January 2020

Best of 2019 – Emoji Files 2019, Part II: Got Me in the Feels

Happy new year, reader friends! Yesterday I began posting my annual best-of series of posts, which I’ve dubbed The Emoji Files, since I group my favourite reads of the year according to the emotional impact they had on me. Yesterday was the Swoony Awards, so if you missed that, make sure you check it out here.

Today, I’m going to be introducing you the reads that really ‘Got Me in the Feels’. These are the books that made me really emotionally invested in the story, often (but not always) to the point of tears.

1 January 2020

The End of the Magi (Patrick W. Carr) – Review

Following his vision of the coming Messiah, the prophet Daniel creates a select group of men who will count down the calendar to the arrival of Israel’s promised king. Centuries later, as the day nears, Myrad, a young magi acolyte, flees for his life when his adoptive father and others are put to death by a ruthless Parthian queen.

Having grabbed only a few possessions, Myrad escapes the city, and searching for a way to hide from the soldiers scouring the trade routes, he tries to join the caravan of the merchant Walagash.

28 November 2019

First Line Friday – The End of the Magi

Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. My current read is a great pick in the lead up to Christmas: The End of the Magi by Patrick W. Carr. I can’t wait to see what he’s done with the story of the Magi!

8 November 2019

Lioness: Mahlah’s Journey (Barbara M. Britton) – Review

While the Israelites struggle to occupy the Promised Land of God, Mahlah bat Zelophehad is orphaned and left to care for her four sisters. But daughters of the dead are unable to inherit land, and it will take a miracle for Mahlah to obtain the means to care for her sisters and uphold the vow she made to her dying mother.

Mahlah must seek Moses, the leader of her people, and request something extraordinary—the right for a daughter to inherit her deceased father’s land. A right that will upset the ox-cart of male inheritance and thrust her into the role of a rebel.

28 October 2019

First Line Friday – Isaiah’s Legacy (Mesu Andrews)

Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. I have some exciting news for you today, particularly if you love biblical fiction. I now have a Biblical Fiction Finder on my website! You can find it in the menu or by going to this page: fictionaficionado.com/biblical-fiction-finder/

In celebration, my first line pick for today is the first line of Mesu Andrews’ next release, Isaiah’s Legacy, which releases in February 2020. It’s still a little way off yet, but I have a feeling it will be here before we know it!

18 October 2019

Hadassah, Queen Esther of Persia (Diana Wallis Taylor) – Review + Giveaway

One of the great heroines of the Old Testament, Hadassah was a beautiful, graceful young woman who put her faith in God and her guardian, her cousin Mordecai.

She dreams of marrying Shamir, a tall, handsome, studious young man who is the rabbi’s son. Her heart beats faster when she hears the sound of his deep voice as he reads the Torah. And she hopes that he will visit Mordecai soon to present a betrothal request.

6 July 2019

Until the Mountains Fall (Connilyn Cossette) – Review

Recently widowed, Rivkah refuses to submit to the Torah law compelling her to marry her husband’s brother and instead flees Kedesh, hoping to use her talents as a scribe to support herself. Without the protections of her father, Kedesh’s head priest, and the safety of the city of refuge, Rivkah soon discovers that the cost of recklessness is her own freedom.

3 July 2019

The power of fiction, the beauty of words, and the God who made us to wield them for His glory.