Less Than Perfect by Ann Spangler is this author's next book. And really is there a better author of the people in the Bible? This author brings to life these people chosen by God and lets the reader see right into their life. This author does not make them merely a villain nor a saint but rather lets you see the real person flaws and all. She lets the reader see the reasons for the person's sins. She lets the reader see why God may have chosen this person to do His work rather than someone that we ourselves may have chosen. God appears to chose the most unlikely person to do His work. A poor shepherd boy to lead the country of His chosen people over an obviously strong healthy soldier who was already leading the country? Pick a prostitute to help lead His people into the promised land? Surely there was someone else. And then He chose her to be in His own linage when He would many years later to send His son to this world. Then there is David, a man after God's own heart--even he had his women problems with emphasis on women not woman. There is no one who would say that he did not love God but surely someone was there who didn't kill someone just to be able to have his wife! The stories continue starting with Adam and Eve and their sins continuing through Jezebel, Jonah, and Judas. She tells their stories then she also gives cultural background for their possible reasons for doing what they did either good or bad in those times. She lets us know why it is so awful to be a woman alone in those times widow or never married. She discusses with the reader the importance of having children and most especially a son. In those times a woman had to have a man to take care of her.
Read this book in order to more fully understand the people of the Bible. It may change your opinion of them or maybe not but you will finally understand why they may have made the decision that they did. Maybe you will understand because you have had to make some of those same decisions or maybe you just never fully understood the dilemma that this person was under in order to live in those times.
I received this book from BookLook for this review.
