For Kahlil Gibran, retelling the story of Jesus had been the ambition of a life time. He had known it from childhood, when as a poor boy in the MiddleEast, hed been taught by a priest reading the bible with him. Now, in his maturity and a successful writer in the USA he wanted tell the story as no one had told it before. With Jesus, the Son of Man, he did just that. Set alongside Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, here is The Gospel according to Gibran. Gibrans approach is to allow the reader to see Jesus through the eyes of a large and disparate group of people. Some of these characters will be familiar we hear from Peter Mary his mother Luke Pontius Pilate, Thomas and Mary Magdalene. But many other characters are new, created by Gibran, including a Jerusalem cobbler, an old Greek shepherd and the mother of Judas. My son was a good man and upright, she tells us. He was tender and kind to me, and he loved his kin and his countrymen. What connects these people is the fact that they all have an opinion about Jesus though no two opinions are the same. The Galilean was a conjuror, and a deceiver, says a young priest. But then a woman caught in adultery experienced him in a different way. When Jesus didnt judge me, I became a woman without a tainted memory, and I was free and my head was no longer bowed. With each fresh voice, a different aspect of Jesus character is explored and a different reaction named. The Logician is clear in his distrust Behold a man disorderly, against all...

Binding: Paperback;176 pages; Publisher: White Crow Productions Ltd; Classification: N/A; Weight: 351.79 g; Dimensions: N/A

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