The Messiah: A Novel - Softcover

Marjorie Holmes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060640111 ISBN 13: 9780060640118

Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco, 1988

Synopsis

Completing the novelistic retelling of Christ's life the author here recounts Christ's life from the beginning of his ministry to his crucifixion

About this title

From Library Journal:

This is the third in a series of novels about Jesus. In Two from Galilee (1972) Holmes told the story of Mary and Joseph. In Three from Galilee ( LJ 9/15/85) she created an imaginary childhood and youth for Jesus. Here she deals with his ministry and Passion. The events of this period, unlike the previous ones, are well known, which hampers Holmes a little. As always, she is best at scenes and characters that bring biblical times to life. In creating Peter's wife, for instance, or the family interaction between Mary and Martha, she is excellent. Her strict adherence to the biblical portrait of Jesus has its drawbacks, however; he seems a bit stilted in places. But on the whole, Holmes has done a remarkably good job, giving us a believably divine human and nicely drawing the characters that surround him. For public libraries. C. Robert Nixon, M.L.S., W. Lafayette, Ind.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0060640111
• ISBN 13: 9780060640118
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 396