Here are two hundred and fifty short biographies, portraits in miniature of the men and women who live in The Bible, from Adam to Onesimus. Some are great names: Moses, Elijah, Jeremiah, Jesus, Peter, paul. And some are not so great: Methuselah, Issachar, Pekah, Pul. Good or bad, noble or debased, saint or sinner, they are drawn in true colors, with no attempt to camouflage their weaknesses or to overemphasize their strength.

"The Bible is a portrait gallery. Down through its pages, from Adam walking the mists of the cooling earth to the last dreaming seer of Revelation, moves a deathless procession of the most interesting men and women in the history of the world. Here they are: good men and bad, noble women and low, cowards and heroes, saints and devils, martyrs, apostates and apostles. They run the gamut of character from Jesus to Jezebel....

"we have tried to make them come alive again, to act out their great drama for our own day, to make them seem as close and real (as indeed they are!) as the men and women you will meet in your office, on the street, in the Temple, tomorrow."

~ Frank S. Mead, in the Foreword. - from Amzon