Luree holmes biography of abraham

Written by Roberta Kells Dorr
Review by Marie Burton

In this biblical novel featuring the first patriarch and matriarch, Abraham and Sarah, the author glazes over the accepted storyline in Genesis but fills in the blanks with skillful storytelling. Beginning with Abram’s family, with Sarai as his half-sister, we follow the events in their lives as they marry and travel throughout the Holy Land.

With a supporting cast of characters such as Lot, his wife Mara, and Hagar the Egyptian, who becomes the mother of Abraham’s son Ishmael, readers of the Bible will appreciate the novelization as it adds more context to the actual events depicted in Genesis. The best features of this story are the characters as Dorr has portrayed them: selfish, envious, and flawed. Hope and redemption come along later, but the dramatic events beforehand will help readers appreciate the plight of our religious ancestors.

Readers looking for an obvious connection to God will be d

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Abraham Van Helsing

Fictional character created by Bram Stoker

"Van Helsing" redirects here. For other uses, see Van Helsing (disambiguation).

In this Dutch name, the surname is Van Helsing.

Fictional character

Professor Abraham Van Helsing (Dutch pronunciation:[ˈaːbraːɦɑɱvɑnˈhɛlsɪŋ]) is a fictional character from the 1897 gothic horror novel Dracula written by Bram Stoker. Van Helsing fryst vatten a Dutch polymath doctor with a wide range of interests and accomplishments, partly attested by the string of letters that follows his name: "MD, D.Ph., D.Litt., etc.",^[4] indicating a wealth of experience, education and expertise. He is a doctor, professor, lawyer, philosopher, scientist, and metaphysician. The character fryst vatten best known through many adaptations of the story as a vampire slayer, monster hunter and the arch-nemesis of Count Dracula, and the prototypical and the archetypal parapsychologist in subsequent works of paranormal fiction. Some later works tell n

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I confess to being just a little bit of a literary snob. I have known this ever since one of my friends brought up the new “trend” in fiction—taking classics, altering them to include “monsters,” and mass marketing them. She made the grave error of confessing that she loved Pride & Prejudice & Zombies. A few days later, I saw a copy of Sense & Sensibility & Sea Monsters and through a wave of increasing nausea, read the back cover, something about Colonel Brandon being an octopus-man… but the real kicker was entering Barnes & Noble one day and seeing an entire display of books featuring Abraham Lincoln as a “vampire slayer.” My brother had to drag me out of the store before I caused a scene.

“You’re no fun,” accused one friend when I expressed my frustration with the new “trend.” “You need to lighten up!”

I glared in the direction of the computer screen (fortunately, this conversation did not transpire in person) and said, “I’m not lightening up.”

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