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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
Formats
Description
A man's life can change in an instant. For Ben-Hur, a young Jewish aristocrat, that time comes when he accidentally knocks a roof tile onto a Roman official's head. He is condemned to the galleys, but the most fateful moment of his life is yet to come: the day he meets Jesus.
2) Ben-Hur
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. From that point forward, Judah's life becomes a quest: a quest to survive...
3) Ben-Hur
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Having spent years in slavery after false accusation of treason, Jewish nobleman Ben-Hur returns home seeking revenge but his life transforms when he meets a Nazarene named Jesus Christ.
4) The robe
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
This is the inspiring story of the robe that Jesus wore on the cross and the Roman centurion, Marcellus Gallio, who wins the robe in a gambling match at the foot of the cross.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca, an imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"If I return to my pack, the stranger will die... Silver Nilsdottir is at the bottom of her Pack's social order, with little chance for a decent mate and a better life... But if I stay...I am gambling that this shifter and I are strong enough for the fight... Until a wounded stranger stumbles into their territory, and Silver decides to risk everything. But Tiberius Leveraux is more than he seems, and in the fragile balance of Pack and Wild, he may...
7) The robe
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Christ's robe has a strange effect on the pagan soldier who wins it in a dice game after the Crucifixion.
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