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The Bible contains the most consequential genealogy in human history. Most people have never read it as a story. The Covenant Bloodline: From Abraham to the Twelve is the second volume in The Biblical Bloodlines Series - a narrative nonfiction journey through the genealogical record of the Old Testament, told with the pace of a story and the precision of a historical investigation. This volume opens at the moment God calls a seventy-five-year-old man out of a city in ancient Mesopotamia and follows the covenant bloodline through four generations of one of the most dramatic families ever recorded. This is the story of Abraham, who left everything he knew for a land he had never seen, on the strength of a promise spoken over a man with no children and no map. It is the story of Sarah, who laughed when she was told she would bear a son at the age of ninety - and then held him in her arms. It is the story of Isaac, who was bound on an altar by his own father and came down the mountain alive. It is the story of Jacob, who wrestled through the night with a figure he could not defeat and walked away with a limp and a new name. And it is the story of twelve brothers whose jealousy, betrayal, and eventual redemption set the stage for a nation. Every chapter is grounded in the biblical text, with inline scripture references throughout so readers can follow the source material themselves. Archaeological discoveries - including excavations at Ur of the Chaldeans, the Nuzi tablets confirming ancient Near Eastern legal customs, Hittite law codes illuminating Abraham's land purchase, and Egyptian records confirming the Edomites and the world of the Joseph narrative - are woven into the story where the secular record and the biblical record align. Written for believers and curious skeptics alike, this book requires no prior faith and no prior biblical knowledge. A motivated reader as young as thirteen can follow it. Adults who have read the Bible for decades will find details they have never encountered presented in a way that makes the familiar new again. The covenant that runs through these pages was made to one man under a sky full of uncountable stars. By the last chapter, seventy people are carrying it into Egypt. The story of how it survives what comes next is the most remarkable genealogy ever recorded. Book 1 - The Sons of Noah: How Three Brothers Populated the Earth Book 2 - The Covenant Bloodline: From Abraham to the Twelve Book 3 - The Bloodlines That Never Ended: From the Twelve Tribes to Prophecy

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