Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt Stop #10

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Welcome to the Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt! If you’ve just discovered the hunt, be sure to start at Stop #1, and collect the clues through all the stops, in order, so you can enter to win one of our top 5 grand prizes! The hunt BEGINS on 6/15 at noon MST with Stop #1 at LisaTawnBergren.com. Hunt through our loop …

Release Day Prophets & Kings: Prequel Collection!

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Release Day: November 15, 2022! Prophets and Kings: Prequel Collection  Releases TOMORROW in both Kindle (Unlimited) and Paperback (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) A compilation of backstories on key characters from my full-length novels: Isaiah’s Daughter Isaiah’s Legacy Of Fire and Lions Why Group Prequels From These 3 Books? I wrote the Prophets and Kings series because …

Potiphar’s Wife Q&A – Part III (On Writing)

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Today, we tackle the third category of great questions submitted during release week of Potiphar’s Wife. We’ll span writing topics from general practices to the specific challenges of forming real-life biblical characters with fact and fiction. Will today’s article have anything to inspire or challenge those who aren’t interested in writing? I think so…I hope so. Here’s why. One of the questions …

Q & A With a Google Curl

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When Isaiah’s Legacy released, on February 18, 2020, several of my BFF team got together to do a blog tour. Some asked me to write about research topics, while others asked for Q & A formats. Since we had pretty low activity, I’ve shared the posts from that tour on my own blog over the past seven months. I hope …

Was Assyria’s King Sennacherib Married to a Hebrew?

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The bronze (originally gold-plated) relief above commemorates the restoration of Babylon by Esarhaddon, ca. 681-669 BC. Some scholars believe his mama was Hebrew. Can you see the short, chubby mama (center of pic) standing behind her strapping young son? Yep, that’s Naqi’a-Zakutu (called simply Naqia in Isaiah’s Legacy). Why was she important enough to etch into a relief found in the temple of …

Isaiah’s Martyrdom—How To Sift The Research

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Do you see the rabbi at the left? He’s studying a scroll—likely written in ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek—with history and traditions I know only a little about. Though I’d love to research in those original languages, I’m limited to English and lots of study aids.   See the little girl at right? That’s how I feel about painting pictures …