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Chargement... The Five Books of Jesuspar James Goldberg
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It starts in the desert. John the prophet lowers Jesus under the Jordan's muddy waters and pulls him up, just as a bird swoops down to skim the river's surface.It spreads next to Galilee, where some welcome Jesus as a disciple of John and others grow wary of his rising influence-fishermen are leaving their nets, tax collectors their offices, and students their masters to listen to this new saint. After abandoning his nets, Andrew ties knots in the threads of his shirt to remember Jesus' teachings. After escaping his slum, Judas waits for Jesus to call down the legions of angels who can end a broken world.But just as Jesus' movement in the north is gaining strength, he turns south toward the Temple and a fate his followers will struggle to understand. The Five Books of Jesus, James Goldberg's lyrical novelization of Jesus' ministry, tells the story of the gospels as Jesus' followers might have experienced it: without knowing what would happen next or how to make sense of events as they unfold. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The Five Books of Jesus explore through fiction what it might have been like to be around Jesus during his ministries. As an atheist, I am most interested in the sociological aspect of the book. Even though it is fiction, this book does two important things.
Modern Christians often seem to forget that believing a man to be God is terrifying blasphemy. What's more, much of what Jesus did went against the social, political, and the religious norms of the day. To be a follower of Jesus -- even before he was believed to be anything more than a prophet or an instigator -- would have been dangerous and, sometimes harder to swallow, downright unpleasant and uncomfortable. How many Christians, if they are honest with themselves, would have been followers? Less, I think, than they would like to admit.
Another thing that humans tend to forget is that the world of the past was different. Not just different in what it lacked technologically or how it differed politically, but with fundamentally different worldviews and social norms. I highly doubt this book is accurate in the details, but it doesn't need to be to convey a sense of how the world was a different place. Even biblical literalists should pause before trying for a plain sense reading that was written about, by, and for people that they probably would have a hard time relating too if they met.
While speaking of bibical literalism, because of lack of knowledge, internal ambiguities and inconsistencies, and the different worldviews of modernity, biblical literalists will certainly find many ways to take issue with the text. Remember, its' fiction, and it's purpose is not to replace the gospels but to help readers think about them differently.
Fiction can be a powerful way to get at truths that are difficult to convey as plain facts, and it was used to good effect here. This was definitely worth the read. (