Much-loved storyteller Gilbert Morris turns an imaginative pen to the lives of the patriarchs. Combining extensive research with an action-packed and skillful plotting, Morris creates believable scenarios in which his ?ctional characters parallel their biblical counterparts. The Gates of Heaven follows the dramatic journey of Jacob, from deceiving his brother and being deceived in his choice of wife, to his life-changing encounter with God. Meanwhile, Jacob's only daughter, Dinah, buys a slave who is actually an aristocrat from Crete. Will he come to love Jacob's God as well as his daughter? Book 3 of the bestselling Lions of Judah.
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"Even though I knew the story from start to finish, I was unable to put this book down...superbly done." -- Road to Romance
"Morris brings history to life with slants on biblical events that challenge assumptions and expand faith." -- Romantic Times, Feb. 2004
"Morris brings history to life with slants on biblical events that challenge assumptions and expand faith." -- Romantic Times, Feb. 2004
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Gilbert Morris spent ten years as a pastor before becoming Professor of English at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkansas and earning a Ph.D. at the University of Arkansas. During the summers of 1984 and 1985, he did postgraduate work at the University of London. A prolific writer, he has had over 25 scholarly articles and 200 poems published in various periodicals, and over the past years has had more than 180 novels published, including THE HOUSE OF WINLSOW series, LIONS OF JUDAH series and CHENEY DUVALL, M.D. His family includes three grown children, and he and his wife live in Alabama.
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Gilbert Morris is among today's most popular Christian writers; his books having sold nearly six million copies worldwide. He specializes in historical fiction and won a 2001 Christy Award for the Civil War drama Edge of Honor. Once a pastor and English professor who earned a Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas, Morris lives with his wife in Gulf Shores, Alabama.
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Excellent Biblical historical fiction,
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This review is from: The Gate of Heaven (Lions of Judah Series #3) (Paperback)
The author pulls Biblical character into a partially fictions tale with such clarity that the familiarity of the Bible comes to life.
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Bibical truths + fiction = good reading,
This review is from: The Gate of Heaven (Lions of Judah Series #3) (Paperback)
This is a good series of books especially if you know the Bibical truths behind them. I like how the people in the Bible are brought to life. Gilbert Morris is a good writer.
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A very good read,
This review is from: The Gate of Heaven (Lions of Judah Series #3) (Paperback)
Gilbert Morris's Lions of Judah series has been a joy to read so far. From the time of Noah to Abraham and Isaac, and now to Jacob and his sons (and daughter), the series continues to be a joy to read. Although Morris's characters in the series tend to be a little too black and white, good and evil (especially the first book), this edition offers a touch of shades of gray, with the thickheaded but caring Esau, the loutish but not cruel Laban, and the stubborn but vulnerable Dinah. Another weakness is that only the oldest four brothers, Joseph, and Dinah, of all Jacob's children, really get any time or depth given to them (Benjamin doesn't count since he's born near the end). Despite that, though, the book is a good read.
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