JESUS

Saturday, March 04, 2006

In January our good friends, Paul and Bobbie Covey were guests in our home. They brought us a splendid gift---JESUS, a novel by Walter Wangerin Jr.

From the dust jacket: “With power and conviction, the award-winning author of The Book of God, Paul: A Novel, and The Book of the Dun Cow turns his pen to history’s most compelling figure: Jesus of Nazareth. In vibrant language, Walter Wangerin Jr. sweeps away centuries of tradition and reveals a man of flesh-and-heart immediacy. 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 journeyed with him across Galilee’s rugged countryside.”

This is a novel that will be read and marveled at for decades to come.