People of the Bible
Five lives that hold the whole story together
The Bible is not a treatise. It is the life of particular people who said yes, who doubted, who got it wrong and who started again. These five run through all 66 books from end to end. Here is who they were, what happened to them and where to start reading.
ABAbrahamOld Testament · Genesis 12–25The man who left without knowing where he was goingA seventy-five-year-old packed up his household and set out for a country nobody had shown him. Everything else starts there: the people of Israel, the promise, and the word «faith» as the…Read the profile
MOMosesOld Testament · Exodus to DeuteronomyThe man who argued with GodPulled out of a river in a basket, raised in the palace that enslaved his own people, a fugitive for forty years and a shepherd of someone else's flock. When he is finally called, the first…Read the profile
DADavidOld Testament · 1 and 2 Samuel · PsalmsThe shepherd who wrote down what he feltThe youngest of eight brothers, the one they did not even call in when the prophet arrived. He ended up king, and above all he ended up being the voice the Bible lends to anyone who does…Read the profile
MAMaryNew Testament · Gospels · ActsThe one who said yes with nothing explained to herA teenage girl from a town of no importance is given an impossible announcement and answers in a single sentence. Then she spends thirty years mostly silent, keeping things in her heart…Read the profile
PAPaulNew Testament · Acts · 13 lettersThe persecutor who changed sides on the roadHe was on his way to Damascus with arrest warrants in hand. He got up off the ground blind, with the argument of his life in pieces. Out of that turn come thirteen letters and half the New…Read the profile
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