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Christ the Lord : Out of Egypt
by Anne Rice

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  • Hardcover: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Random House Largeprint edition (November, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN:0375728449

 

A New York Times Bestseller

n the author's note at the end of her new novel, Rice says that when she set out to write this one, she wanted to write not about a hypothetical, revisionist Jesus but about Jesus as he's rendered in the Gospels. Seven-year-old Jesus narrates the story of his extended family's trek from Alexandria, Egypt, to Nazareth.

From Publishers Weekly
Rice departs from her usual subject matter to pen this curious portrait of a seven-year-old Jesus, who departs Egypt with his family to return home to Nazareth. Rice's painstaking historical research is obvious throughout, whether she's showing the differences among first-century Jewish groups (Pharisees, Essenes and Sadducees all play a part), imagining a Passover pilgrimage to Jerusalem or depicting the regular but violent rebellions by Jews chafing under Roman rule. The book succeeds in capturing Jesus' profound Jewishness, with some of the best scenes reflecting his Torah education and immersion in the oral traditions of the Hebrew Bible. As fiction, though, the book's first half is slow going. Since it is told from Jesus' perspective, the childlike language can be simplistic, though as readers persevere they will discover the riches of the sparse prose Rice adopts. The emotional heart of the story—Jesus' gradual discovery of the miraculous birth his parents have never discussed with him—picks up steam as well, as he begins to understand why he can heal the sick and raise the dead. Rice provides a moving afterword, in which she describes her recent return to the Catholic faith and evaluates, often in an amusingly strident fashion, the state of biblical studies today.