An edition of John the baptizer: a novel (2009)

John the baptizer

a novel

1st ed.

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An edition of John the baptizer: a novel (2009)

John the baptizer

a novel

1st ed.

A vivid, moving, and unprecedented biographical saga of John the Baptist.

Traditionally, John the Baptist is seen as little more than an opening act—"the voice crying in the wilderness"—in the great Christian drama. In presenting the epic of John’s life, novelist Brooks Hansen draws on an extraordinary array of inspirations, from the works of Caravaggio, Bach, and Oscar Wilde to the histories of Josephus, the canonical gospels, the Gnostic gospels, and the sacred texts of those followers of John who never accepted Jesus as Messiah: the Mandeans.

Gripping as literary historical fiction, and fascinating as a diligent exploration of ancient and modern sources, this book brings to eye-opening life the richly textured world—populated by the magnificently sordid, calculating, and reckless Herods, their families, and their courts—into which both John and Jesus were born. John the Baptizer is a captivating tapestry of power and dissent, ambition and self-sacrifice, worldly and otherworldly desire, faith, and doubt.

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John the baptizer: a novel
2009, W. W. Norton & Co., W. W. Norton & Company
in English - 1st ed.

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
New York
Genre
Fiction

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3558.A5126 J65 2009, PS3558.A5126J65 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23165348M
Internet Archive
johnbaptizernove0000hans
ISBN 13
9780393069471
LCCN
2009006674
OCLC/WorldCat
286488897
Library Thing
8299918
Goodreads
5436698

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