Gary Arthur Thomson: 7 books

Giving clear messages, Jesus taught pragmatically about lifes situations as he saw them through metaphorical parables. In Parables on Point, author Gary Arthur Thomson delves into the mind of Jesus and analyzes the meanings and ideas behind the parables. Parables on Point discovers the real...

Sumerians were the ?rst people to write. Using a sharp three-cornered stylus, they wrote on claysmall wedge-shapes called cuneiform. With writing, Sumerians turned the corner from prehistory to history! After at least two million years of humans telling stories, the Sumerians introduced literacy. Most...

In the Year 1230 BCE, the stately city of Shechem cradled between Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal was suddenly disturbed out of her reserved formality, her closely-watched market, her liturgical inner temple routine, her orderly sentinelled turrets. A ?ood of people from every direction poured into her...

Doctor Luke traveled from Europe to Palestine in the Year 57. Luke accompanied the Apostle Paul as his personal physician. Paul was immediately arrested. A writer, Luke took the opportunity to collect the parables and sayings of Jesus into a book. Luke learned a lot more than he expected from Naomi—the woman who knew.

For 4000 years the world's FIRST MARKET was forgotten along with Sumer, the world's first civilization. Recently discovered cuneiform receipts inscribed on clay tablets (over 100,000) offer clues to the rediscovery of the world's first Wall Street private treaty stock market. The CUNEIFORM CODE unlocks...

Having studied medicine, Rabelais sat down on the beach and contemplated a statue of Asklepius. "Oh worthy Asklepius, God of Healing! Where are you? Here I am, a little boy said pouring sand on Rabelais bare feet. What do you know about that? Rabelais was jolted out of his reverie. Are you Asklepius?...

The meal they ate in the inn was boiled cabbage, sliced cooked meats, and bread with a cup of red wine. There was horseradish to flavor the beef and butter to spread on the brot. They sat beside the big heating and cooking fireplace. A kettle hung from a hinged iron hook that pivoted over the fire....