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Two Women of Galilee

by Mary Rourke · 2006

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A courtier's wife encounters the mother of God in this debut novel—the beautifully imagined story of Joanna, mentioned in the Bible as the wife of Herod's steward Chuza, who accompanied Jesus and the disciples.

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adult
Length
medium · 229 pages

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