The Book of God: The Bible as a Novel
by Walter Wangerin Jr. | Religion & Spirituality | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0310200059 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0310200059 Global Overview for this book
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"This is not the Bible," says of this Wangerin of this work; but it is a novel featuring many of the Bible's most dramatic characters. He partitions the whole into eight parts: half focus on personalities (The Ancestors, Kings, Prophets, The Messiah), and half concern themselves with epic themes (The Covenant, The Wars of the Lord, Letters From Exile, The Yearning).
Retelling the stories of the Bible in novelized form allows Wangerin to be more selective: no slogging through seemingly endless genealogies or the minutiae of military conflicts for him. Instead, he imagines the finer points of the tension between Sarah and her slave, Hagar; the words Isaac might have used in blessing Jacob; or the drama of Jesus's baptism by his cousin, John. In doing so, he also makes some curious inventions. Does Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist, become a justifiably more interesting character, for instance, if he is presented as willingly making nails for the evil ruler Herod to use in crucifixions?
For adult readers who are intimidated by the sheer bulk of the Bible? You decide.
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From amazon.com
"This is not the Bible," says of this Wangerin of this work; but it is a novel featuring many of the Bible's most dramatic characters. He partitions the whole into eight parts: half focus on personalities (The Ancestors, Kings, Prophets, The Messiah), and half concern themselves with epic themes (The Covenant, The Wars of the Lord, Letters From Exile, The Yearning).
Retelling the stories of the Bible in novelized form allows Wangerin to be more selective: no slogging through seemingly endless genealogies or the minutiae of military conflicts for him. Instead, he imagines the finer points of the tension between Sarah and her slave, Hagar; the words Isaac might have used in blessing Jacob; or the drama of Jesus's baptism by his cousin, John. In doing so, he also makes some curious inventions. Does Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist, become a justifiably more interesting character, for instance, if he is presented as willingly making nails for the evil ruler Herod to use in crucifixions?
For adult readers who are intimidated by the sheer bulk of the Bible? You decide.
Journal Entry 2 by KansasKiwi at Crossroads Christian Church - 4310 N. Monroe in Hutchinson, Kansas USA on Monday, May 1, 2006
Released 17 yrs ago (5/1/2006 UTC) at Crossroads Christian Church - 4310 N. Monroe in Hutchinson, Kansas USA
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