false 1339202 16 Having completed the two cycles of legend to which she has devoted her career so far, Anne Rice gives us now her most ambitious and courageous book, a novel about the early years of CHRIST THE LORD, based on the Gospels and on the most respected New Testament scholarship.<br><br>The book&#8217;s power derives from the passion its author brings to the writing and the way in which she summons up the voice, the presence, the words of Jesus who tells the story. 5068705 2006 Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana total:955|5:11|4:16|3:5|2:4|1:2| 955 3605 1639 237 4 4 false false Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 22:43:23 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 22:49:30 -0800 2008
Some of the characters are known from scripture; others are creations of Ms. Rice. Jesus is portrayed as being a somewhat strange, but very lo...more...]]> 3 3 false false Sat Jun 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 05 19:08:33 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 16 17:02:12 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Jun 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 04 12:33:04 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 09 11:38:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 2 false false Mon Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 13 11:29:52 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 24 10:03:00 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false true Tue Mar 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 06 11:54:54 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 29 13:40:27 -0700 2008
Road to Cana is also great, and covers the time when Christ is an adult preparing for his ministry to begin. This book is well-crafted in its approach to incorporating scriptural...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jul 10 11:52:04 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 10 12:30:13 -0700 2008 Rice as a drama, beautifully written, narrated in the first person by Jesus Of Nazareth whom is called at this biblcal
time Yeshua bar Joseph.
Yeshua(Jesus)draws you into the events of his life
articulating his fina...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jul 15 07:18:44 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 07:35:00 -0700 2009
The family is back in Nazarath and Jesus is being hassled by friends and family about not being married. In fact, he dreams of marrying a beau...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon May 25 06:30:18 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 06:31:12 -0700 2009 Jezus dla biografów jest jak góra lodowa pływająca po wodach, której widoczne są tylko fragmenty, a podwodnej reszty trzeba się domyślić, lub podpierać na innych źródłach. W tej powieści autorka stworzyła powieść historyczną po części opartą na apokryfach. W ten sposób spróbo...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Apr 15 22:24:36 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 22:25:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Oct 02 06:09:41 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 03:18:15 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 06:09:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 17:18:05 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 20:31:04 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 05:29:07 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 05:39:22 -0700 2009
This s...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 02:05:45 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 04:37:03 -0700 2009 "I'd always known who I really was. I was God. And I'd chosen not to know it. Well, now I knew just what it meant to be the man who knew he was God."

As the novel opens, Yeshua (Jesus) struggles with a sense of restlessness of purpose and a deep love for a comely kinswoman. Wav...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Mar 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 05 13:19:34 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 27 12:40:00 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Feb 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 09:40:53 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 20 08:36:10 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Feb 26 11:53:09 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 26 11:53:09 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 14:22:54 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 07:31:16 -0700 2009
Yeshua is fully human, but is also, quite divine. In The Road to Cana there is a wedding about to happen, Avigail is going to marry Reuben....more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 06 11:51:25 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 21:03:22 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Thu Jan 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 18 21:33:18 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 16 08:34:10 -0800 2009 Out of Egypt. I stopped reading it, but I don't recall there being anything particularly wrong with the novel. I guess I just wasn't that interested in the early childhood of Christ. Some people really want to know wh...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Mar 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 13:21:21 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 13:37:16 -0800 2009 more...]]>