With eloquence and beauty, the award-winning author of Book of the Dun Cow, The Book of God, and Paul: A Novel turns his pen to history\'s most compelling figure: Jesus of Nazareth.
The Jesus of the Bible, revealing God\'s heart in the midst of time and culture..
Loving son, intimate friend, and brilliant teacher, tender in heart, fierce in anger, wholehearted in joy and in grief, deeply human yet unmistakably divine--this is the Jesus who lives and breathes in these pages. . . the agony of an iron crucifixion spike piercing human sinew . . . the fury of religious leaders . . . the loving intimacy of Jesus in prayer . . . the cry of gratitude from a leper\'s lips . . .
Mary desperately searching for her son in the wind-lashed rain . . .
You peered around, seeking the source of the music and waving your hands as if to catch the stars in them Here is a magnum opus of image and emotion: Jesus bringing his father the sacrificial lamb in Jerusalem\'s temple .
You popped your eyes open. "Glory," they sang, and I felt the bedrock tremble.
Angels in legions sang when you were born, my beautiful Yeshi At midnight they poured down from the heavens, every one a whirling star, ten thousand voices in a skyborne choir. . . .
Wangerin shows you Jesus through the eyes of the two people who were with him at very the foot of the cross, the two who knew and loved him best: John the apostle, and Jesus\' beloved mother, Mary.
Days of centuries past become today, lit with bright colors of the imagination.
Passionate, intelligent, and irresistibly real, this is a Jesus pulsing with life who will captivate you as thoroughly as he did the men and women who walked with him across Galilee\'s golden countryside. sweeps away centuries of tradition and reveals a man of flesh-and-heart immediacy.
In vibrant language, Walter Wangerin Jr.
With eloquence and beauty, the award-winning author of Book of the Dun Cow, The Book of God, and Paul: A Novel turns his pen to history\'s most compelling figure: Jesus of Nazareth
