The Bible as you’ve never read it: this is the intricate work that Sandro Mayer and Osvaldo Orlandini undertook with respect, passion, and deep feeling after the success of their two previous books, La grande storia di padre Pio and La grande storia di Gesù. The creation, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah’s ark, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph and Moses: Mayer and Orlandini studied the most fascinating stories of the Old Testament and interpreted them, then enriched them with historical sources until the result was transformed by their talent into an epic novel. You will be drawn into that world of millenniums ago that the Bible narrates which will envelop you in a crescendo of emotions: Sara’s desperation because she is sterile; Joseph sold by his brothers into slavery, who through his merits eventually becomes the viceroy of Egypt; Moses saved from the water, his conversations with God, the long march he leads his people on to the Promised Land. Then there are irresistible episodes, intrigues, and love affairs. Like a colossal of the cinema, the Mayer and Orlandini Bible is for everyone in the family. The characters in this truly grand story, even the minor characters, will not be forgotten. Reading this will be like seeing their faces, hearing their voices on the big screen, set in the historical and geographic context of those ancient times. This is not just a Bible to keep in your bookcase, it’s for reading from the first page to the last because the rhythm is tight and enthralling and because the characters, wrapped in legend over the centuries, become flesh and blood.