Foundlings

Great book for kids and their parents August 2, 2009
By Christy "somanybooks_solittletime"
We just finished this book reading to our 8, 6, and 4 year old and they loved it. One good sign that a book is well written is that the parents enjoy reading it as well and this book meets that requirement. Good character development with real heroes that you would want your children to emulate. Scripture was interwoven throughout the story but we loved that it didn't seem forced or unnatural. So glad we found this book. Can't wait for Book 2. It left us hanging at the end!

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"Well done! A scripturally faithful, and yet realistically creative work. We tend to think of the men and women of old as sanctified cavemen. You brought them to life before our mind's eye. You should have seen my kids faces when I got to the last chapter and put it on hold till the next night. They couldn't believe what I was doing to them. We pray God's blessings on your work, will be happy to endorse it, and most importantly, look forward to the next book in the Peleg Chronicles." --Homeschooling Today Magazine, Steve Murphy, Publisher

Reading is very important. If you know how to read you can learn anything. One of the best ways to turn your children into good readers is to read to them. Reading aloud is a fun way to bond with your children. My one rule was that I wouldn't read anything that wasn't interesting to me. No boring drivel. I started reading to my boys when they were very small and continued until they were teenagers and rarely all home at the same time. Today they all enjoy reading for pleasure. I know they would have enjoyed Foundlings and I bet your kids would too!

Peleg is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of the two sons of Eber, an ancestor of the Israelites, according to the so-called "Table of Nations." Peleg's son was Reu, born when Peleg was thirty, and he had other sons and daughters. According to the Hebrew Bible, Peleg lived to the age of 239 years.

In the Septuagint and some Christian Bibles derived from it, Peleg is called Phaleg and his father is called Heber. His son is called Ragau, born when Phaleg was 130 years old, and he had other sons and daughters. According to the Septuagint, Phaleg lived to an age of 339 years. (Septuagint Genesis 11:16-19) Modern translations generally use the names and dating as in the Masoretic Hebrew text.

It was during the time of Peleg that "the earth was divided" - traditionally, this is often assumed to be just before, during, or after the failure of Nimrod's Tower of Babel. The meaning of the earth being divided has been speculated to be a patriarchal division of the world (or possibly just the eastern hemisphere) among the three sons of Noah for future occupation, as specifically described in the Book of Jubilees. Flavius Josephus (among others) also affirms this interpretation in his Antiquities of the Jews, Book I, Chapter VI, Paragraph 4.

The novel The Days Of Peleg by Jon Saboe gives a fictional account of Peleg's life, along with the speculative meaning for his name.

Peleg is a common surname in Israel, also being the root lettering for sailing (lahaflig) and a military half-bivouac tent (peleg-ohel).

Peleg is also the name of one of the owners of the Pequod in Herman Melville's fictional story, Moby-Dick.

The meaning of Peleg in English is Brook, a little river.

Peleg on Wikipedia

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