Children will flip over this easy-to-assemble storybook, as the Old Testament jumps off the pages right in front of their eyes. Thirty bookmaking projects included within are sure to enrich their joy and knowledge of the Bible. Includes patterns, instructions, and teaching tips.

Have fun with faith using Old Testament Take-Home Books That Move! for grades K–2! This 128-page book features captivating, easy-to-assemble storybooks that children love because the Old Testament jumps off the pages right before their eyes! The 30 bookmaking projects enrich children's joy and knowledge of the Bible. The book also includes patterns, instructions, and teaching tips.

Children will flip over this easy-to-assemble storybook, as the New Testament jumps off the pages right in front of their eyes. Nearly 30 bookmaking projects included within are sure to enrich their joy and knowledge of the Bible. Includes patterns, instructions, and teaching tips.

Present the truth of God’s faithfulness to students as they color and make their own mini-books based on the passages of the Old Testament! Each mini-book contains a scripture reference and an application question to encourage extension activities.

Have fun with faith using New Testament Take-Home Books That Move! for grades K–2! This 128-page book features 28 captivating, easy-to-assemble storybooks that children love because the New Testament jumps off the pages right before their eyes! These book-making projects enrich children's joy and knowledge of the Bible. The book also includes patterns, instructions, and teaching tips.

This volume collects the most important writings by Mark Twain in which he used biblical settings, themes, and figures. Featuring Twain's singular portrayals of God, Adam, Eve, Satan, Methuselah, Shem, St. Peter, and others, the writings stand among Twain's most imaginative expressions of his views on human nature and humankind's relation to the Creator and the universe. Composed over four decades (1871-1910), the writings range from farce to fantasy to satire, each one bearing the mark of Twain's unmistakable wit and insight. Among the many delights in store for readers are Adam and Eve's divergent accounts of their domestic troubles; Methuselah's discussion of an ancient version of baseball, complete with a parody of baseball jargon; Shem's hand-wringing account of how material shortages and labor troubles were hampering the progress of the ark his father, Noah, was building; a description of the disruptive actions of the fire-and-brimstone evangelist Sam Jones upon arriving in heaven; Captain Stormfield's revelations of what heaven is really like; Satan's musings on our puerile concepts of the afterlife; and Twain's advice on how to dress and tip properly in heaven. Twain's humor, however, is never gratuitous. As readers laugh their way through this volume, they will find ample evidence of Twain's concerns about scriptural fallacies and inconsistencies, the Bible's rather flat portrayal of important characters, and our limited notions about the nature and meaning of our own--and God's--existence. Many of the pieces in this collection, even the most lighthearted, might still be considered controversial; of some of the darker pieces, Twain himself acknowledged that they would be heretical in any age. Moreover, these writings are valuable cultural artifacts of a time when, across the Western world, fundamental religious beliefs were being called into question by the precepts of Darwinism and the rapid advances of science and technology. Several of this volume's selections are previously unpublished; others, like Letters from the Earth, are classics. Virtually all have been newly edited to reflect as closely as possible Twain's final intentions for their form and content. For serious Twain devotees, editors Howard G. Baetzhold and Joseph B. McCullough have supplied an abundance of background material on the writings, including details on the history of their composition, publication, and relevance to the Twain canon.

Presented here are two volumes of apocryphal writings reflecting the life and time of the Old and New Testaments. Stories told by contemporary fiction writers of historical Bible times in fascinating and beautiful style.