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Know Your Bible from A to Z: A Quick Handbook to the People, Places, and Things is unavailable, but you can change that!

Bestselling author Jim George helps readers gain a wider and richer understanding of the Bible. Included are more than 150 carefully selected topics that provide fascinating insights about important historical events, interesting customs and cultural practices, and significant people and places. What makes this book especially helpful is that the vast majority of the topics include personal...

The Bible reports that Jesus’ birth occurred as follows: After His mother Mary was betrothed or engaged to Joseph and before they came together physically in marriage, she was found to be “with child of the Holy Spirit.” In other words, Joseph was simply Jesus’ adoptive father—the Holy Spirit was responsible for the birth of Jesus. Matthew wrote that this was a fulfillment of biblical prophecy, quoting Isaiah 7:14: “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall