John Cowart: 4 books

In this story, John Cowart explores the complex social, political and religious forces that dominated Medieval Spain during the Reconquista. Jews were caught in the middle of this titanic struggle between Christian and Muslim. The Moors drive Hernan from his castle, and he flees to Leon. There, he...

Flames consumed the thatched roof above his head and burning ash rained over the skins that covered him. He looked for her, but she was gone. “Jason!” Her voice a shriek that pierced the roar of the flames. Armed men dragged her into the night. “Lavinia.” Jason jumped from the bed to rush...

Ralph Martin had such high ideals when he left his comfortable life as an assistant pastor in a well-to-do parish to work as a missionary to the poor in the war-torn Central American country of El Salvador. Caught up in the conflicting ideologies of the tyrannical government, the corrupt Church hierarchy,...

Zipporah, the wife of the lawgiver Moses and daughter of Jethro, the Priest of Midian, tells her father's story. From humble origins, Jethro becomes an apprentice to Ahaz, a priest of Baal and member of the diplomatic council of Jericho, a small kingdom pressed by the Midianites on the east and the...