I have not read that; to me he is the author of 'The Cave' and 'The Gospel According to Jesus Christ'. I probably shouldn't set down this question without doing basic research (...googling) first, but is it possible that a more powerful and grounded (haa) novel about Jesus-the-person exists? Naturally such a work must be written by an atheist (she said, pompously). I read it after I read Kazantzakis's 'The Last Temptation' and made a favourable comparison to it. In Saramago, there is a scene where Jesus is sitting in the boat in the middle of a lake with God and the Devil, and there he finds out that it's all the same, essentially. It was electric. And... great, now I can't remember if it was Kazantzakis or Saramago who came up (or did they? Perhaps there is an entire school of Bible scholars in official or unofficial capacity who believe this) with the brilliant idea - one I am deeply sympathetic to - that, hey, that Judas fellow may not have been a traitor at all. (I remember reading elsewhere that thirty pieces of silver was an awfully meagre amount even at that point in history.)
I need to buy my own copy of each book, I can't believe I haven't in all these years.
In other news, I have also learned that Ciara is working on a triple-album named 'Fantasy Ride'.
Yes, that single sentence was pretext enough to justify posting a PICTURE OF CIARA.
I are shallow.
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