WE ARE HIS PEOPLE

by Elizabeth Honness ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 17, 1960

The successive episodes of the Exodus story are among the most familiar to children of beginning Sunday School age, and here a group of them are brought together, beginning with the night when an Israelite father in Egypt sprinkles the lintel with the blood of a slain lamb. Next morning the Egyptian first born are dead- the first born of the Israelite slave survived. This and the subsequent stories of the departure from Egypt- the wandering years- the achievement of the goal- Solomon and the Temple- lead up to a symbolic story of a youth who journeys to Jerusalem there to keep Passover -- a link with the Gospel story. While the simplification of the stories is reverently done, the drama of the original versions seems muted or lost.

Pub Date: Oct. 17, 1960

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Westminster

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1960

Categories: FICTION