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Barkdull, Larry.

The shepherd’s song / Larry Barkdull.

p. cm.

Summary: Joshua ben Levi, a young Judean shepherd, is in search of a

miracle. His wife, Miriam, is expecting their first baby, but

complications threaten to take the lives of both mother and child. In

desperate need of God’s help, Joshua journeys to the temple in Jerusalem

to make an offering and to pray; on the way home he becomes one of the

shepherds chosen to greet the Christ child on the night of his birth.

ISBN 978-1-60641-150-6 (paperbound)

1. Jesus Christ—Nativity—Fiction. 2. Shepherds in the

Bible—Fiction. 3. Christian fiction, American. I. Title.

PS3552.A6166S54 2009

813’.54—dc22 2009024681

Printed in the United States of America Worzalla Publishing Co., Stevens Point, WI

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