commonly known as the Book of Martyrs. Its popularity was immense. “Bloody” Mary's persecution was still fresh in the people's minds, and the graphic narratives of noble suffering for the cause of Jesus Christ and
Foxe’s level of scholarship and accuracy is without equal, and his woodcut illustrations make no use of censorship in their detail. Foxe’s Book of Martyrs is the ultimate documentary of 1,500 years of man’s inhumanity to man… all in the name of God....
Tag Archives:Foxe’s Book of Martyrs Who Would Die for a Lie? Posted onAugust 6, 2012 10 Almost all of the original apostles that surrounded Jesus died martyr’s deaths. If they knew that he was just a regular guy and that the resurrection story was fiction, why would they go to thei...
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7. Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, John Foxe 8. The Book of Mormon, Joseph J. Smith, Jr. But two works of fiction round out the Top Ten: 9. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J.K. Rowling (107 million — UK title was …and the Philosopher’s Stone) 10. And Then There Were ...
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