The Gate of Heaven

Name: The Gate of Heaven
Rating: 4.47 (712 reviews)

by Gilbert Morris Book 3 in the Lions of Judah series.

First published 2004

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4.5(712)

Combining extensive research with an action-packed and skillful plotting, Morris creates believable scenarios in which his fictional characters parallel their biblical counterparts. The Gate of Heaven follows the dramatic journey of Jacob, from deceiving his brother and being deceived in his choice of wife, to his life-changing encounter with God. Meanwhile, Jacob's only daughter, Dinah, buys a slave who is actually an aristocrat from Crete. Will he come to love Jacob's God as well as his daughter?

Set against Patriarchal Narratives in Bronze Age Canaan, the book is biblical fiction: private dialogue, chronology and motives are imaginative expansions of scripture rather than independently documented biography.