Sentence examples for biblical novel from inspiring English sources

But apart from a flood here or a plague of locusts there, god seems like a swell guy in the biblical novel.

By The New Yorker November 19, 2008 A book by Samuel Joee the Plumber) Wurzelbacher will reportedly be published on December 1st by PearlGate, a small Austin, Texas, press owned by Wurzelbacher's co-writer, Thomas N. Tabback, whose Biblical novel "Things Forgotten" is Pearlgate's sole release.

New Mexico's Indiana-born Governor Lew Wallace wrote in 1881 after publishing his epic biblical novel, Ben-Hur, "All calculations based on our experiences elsewhere fail in New Mexico".

This biblical novel takes the great command of Torah: Love your neighbor as yourself -- and turns it into a story.

Referencing the seven days of biblical Creation, the novel takes place in seven days.

Saramago, playfully stretching his chatty late style, pokes holes in the stated logic of the Biblical God throughout the novel, and the author's anger and despair at the deity's cruelty cuts through his endless uninflected sentences.

Heti, who is Jewish, uses Biblical motifs throughout her novel (Jacob wrestling with the angel is a favorite), and her language, usually plain and loose, can in places take on a tone of heightened Old Testament solemnity.

Another group of novels retold biblical stories or tales about the Apostles and the founding of Christianity; still others were set in the Renaissance.

Poet and essayist Lucian Blaga attempted to provide a philosophical foundation for the description of Romanian national characteristics, partly determined by geographical conditions, while Gala Galaction translated the Bible and wrote novels on biblical subjects.

The novel teems with biblical references.

The characters in this picaresque western, adapted by Jay Craven from Howard Frank Mosher's 1977 novel, speak in biblical cadences.