Query: American books based on the Bible but not about Judaism.
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told By A Freeman Of Color
The Wonder Book of Bible Stories
Hadassah: One Night with the King
Live from Golgotha: The Gospel According to Gore Vidal
The Tables of the Law
Sarah (Card novel)
Stone Tables
The Prince (novel)
The Judas Testament (novel)
Animals of the Bible
Rebekah (novel)
The Wives of Israel
Silverlock
Redeeming Love
Seola
Slaves of the Shinar
The Lonely Man of Faith
Rachel and Leah
Evidence from documents: Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told By A Freeman Of Color: '''''Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told By A Freeman Of Color''''' is a 1998 book by Patricia McKissack. Set in 19th century South Carolina, it is about a freed slave, Price Jeffries, who uses Bible stories from the Old Testament to answer questions that his daughter, Charlotte, poses about the things she sees around her.
The Wonder Book of Bible Stories: '''''The Wonder Book of Bible Stories''''' is a 1904 collection by Logan Marshall published in the United States. The book includes biblical stories from both the Old and New Testaments retold for children and illustrated with rich woodcuts and color plates.
Hadassah: One Night with the King: '''''Hadassah: One Night with the King''''' is a 2004 novel by Tommy Tenney and Mark Andrew Olsen based upon a retelling of the Biblical Book of Esther.
Live from Golgotha: The Gospel According to Gore Vidal: '''''Live from Golgotha: The Gospel according to Gore Vidal''''' is a novel by Gore Vidal, an irreverent spoof of the New Testament. Told from the perspective of Saint Timothy as he travels with Saint Paul, the 1992 novel's narrative shifts in time as Timothy and Paul combat a mysterious hacker from the future who is deleting all traces of Christianity.
The Tables of the Law: '''''The Tables of the Law''''' () is a 1944 novella by German writer Thomas Mann. It is a dramatic retelling of the Biblical story of Moses contained in the Book of Exodus, although some of the laws which Moses proscribes for his followers are taken from Leviticus
Sarah (Card novel): '''''Sarah: Women of Genesis''''' (2000) is the first novel in the ''Women of Genesis'' series by Orson Scott Card.
''Sarah'' follows the story of Abraham through the eyes and perspective of Sarah. The Biblical account of the life of Sarah is contained in Genesis 12 - 22 (about 16 pages) most of which is centered on Abraham.
Stone Tables: '''''Stone Tables''''' (1997) is a historical novel by Orson Scott Card, based on the life of Moses. As with much of Card's other literature, a Christian/Mormon influence is present in this book.
The Prince (novel): '''''The Prince''''' is an American novel published in 2005, written by Francine Rivers. It is the third novel in the Sons of Encouragement series, and tells the tale of the biblical character of Jonathan, the son of Saul the King in the Old Testament.
The Judas Testament (novel): '''''The Judas Testament''''' is a 1994 novel by Daniel Easterman. The plot revolved around the discovery of an ancient scroll hidden deep in the vaults of the Russian State Library in Moscow, and its translation by Dr. Jack Gould, a scholar of the Aramaic language, who becomes the unwitting pawn in a murderous struggle by various crypto-political forces to possess the scroll.
Animals of the Bible: ''Animals of the Bible'' takes 31 Biblical stories of creatures who helped Biblical heroes complete their tasks and illustrates them.
Rebekah (novel): The story-line does not deviate from the story told in Genesis, but Card does add details and characters of his own invention.
The Wives of Israel: '''''The Wives of Israel''''' will be the fourth novel in the ''Women of Genesis'' series by Orson Scott Card. It has yet to be released.
The book will be a continuation of the previous novel in the ''Women of Genesis'' series ''Rachel and Leah''. The book left off after Rachel had married Jacob, following the marriage of her sister Leah. Card states in the afterword of ''Rachel and Leah'' that he had not intended to have the story be continued in two more books, but that it would have been too much to include the marriage/concubinage of the sister's handmaidens and so decided to put them into consecutive books to cover that subject as well as the children and their raising and adventures (chiefly Joseph and his brothers, and Joseph's further adventures into slavery in Egypt, possibly from the point of his wife). Though Card says that he plans to leave the matter of Judah's daughter-in-law, Tamar, alone.
At this time, the expected release date is unknown.
Silverlock: '''''Silverlock''''' is a novel by John Myers Myers published in 1949. The novel's settings and characters, aside from the protagonist, are all drawn from history, mythology, and other works of literature.
Redeeming Love: '''''Redeeming Love''''' is a historical romance novel by Francine Rivers set in the 1850s Gold Rush in California. The story is inspired by the Book of Hosea from the Bible, and its central theme is the redeeming love of God towards sinners.
Seola: '''''Seola''''' is an antediluvian novel published in 1878, written by Ann Eliza Smith. The publishers of the novel are Boston: Lee and Shepard, New York: Charles T. Dillingham.


The majority of the novel purports to be a translation of an ancient scroll diary written by a woman named Seola, who is identified as the wife of Japheth. The Book of Genesis indicates that Noah had three sons named Ham, Shem and Japheth. In the appendix section of the novel, Ann Smith describes how she was inspired to write the fantasy. She writes:
Slaves of the Shinar: The book explores the early lives and origins of characters and peoples to be found in Middle Eastern myths and religious texts, especially the Biblical Book of Genesis and the ''Epic of Gilgamesh''.
The Lonely Man of Faith: '''''The Lonely Man of Faith''''' is a philosophical essay written by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, first published in the summer 1965 issue of Tradition, as a book by Doubleday in 1992 and published in a newly revised edition in 2011 by Koren Publishers Jerusalem.
Rachel and Leah: based on the Bible: follows the story of Jacob through the eyes of Rachel and Leah.
but not about Judaism.: the storyline does not deviate from the story told in Genesis.