by Gary Ivey | Apr 20, 2023 | Age of the Kingdom Series, Current Posts, The Bible, Writing
In 2010 I began working on something that I called Thine Is the Kingdom. It was a historical novel based on the book of 1st Samuel in the Bible. I wrote it from the viewpoint of a number of characters, some named in the Bible, some mentioned but not named, and some...
by Gary Ivey | Mar 12, 2023 | Age of the Kingdom Series, Current Posts, The Bible, Writing
Examining the historicity of 1st & 2nd Samuel, continued In the previous post, I started my look at the historicity of some of the favorite stories in the Bible, which are the subject of my new novel Quest for a King, the first book of the proposed “Age of...
by Gary Ivey | Mar 12, 2023 | Age of the Kingdom Series, Current Posts, The Bible, Writing
Examining the historicity of 1st & 2nd Samuel I read A LOT as a child. I attended a very small denominationally operated school with a fittingly small library. By the time I left the school I had read every book in the library at least once. I remember from my...
by Gary Ivey | Mar 11, 2023 | Age of the Kingdom Series, Current Posts, The Bible, Writing
I’ve always loved history. I know, I’m a nerd, but not just a history nerd; I’ve been a band nerd, an audio-visual nerd and a coding nerd. I love history enough that I have always read books on history and watched documentaries without it being...
by Gary Ivey | Mar 11, 2023 | Age of the Kingdom Series, Current Posts, The Bible, Writing
If you are a friend on Facebook, you know I’ve been focused on writing screenplays of late, but a series of events led me to dust off a novel I had worked on and had thought was finished, but I now realize I needed to rethink it. Part of the rethinking was due...