Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt: A Novel | Anne Rice

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	Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt: A Novel Anne Rice Ballantine Books, 2008 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 305 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Powerful

She built her reputation writing books about vampires and witches, exploring her own faith as her characters wrestled with timeless themes of good and evil. Now Anne Rice has taken on the story of Christ himself. Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt is a novel written as a first-person account by Jesus of his very early years. In an afterword Rice details her research -- the years she spent studying Christ and his times, delving deeply into academic treatises. ..

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Good read. I liked Out of Egypt better. This seemed as if it was almost geared for Middle School reading.

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Fascinating glimpse of Jesus's hidden life in 1st century Palestine

I started this book a couple of years ago, got about 50 pages into it, and quit. It was a bit too touchy-feely for me. Then I picked it up again last month, started over, and finished it. I'm glad I did. It got better as I progressed, and Anne Rice's research was evident as she described life of a very special Jewish family in first century Palestine. I think James and Joseph were my favorite characters. I also liked her imaginative -- yet, as far as I could tell, orthodox -- description of child Jesus's gradual self-understanding and subsequent self-limitation. Finally, Rice's descriptions of the holy land gave me a vivid mental image that will enliven my reading of the New Testament.

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