JESUS, THE ONE AND ONLY

The author uses her considerable narrative skills and historical sensibilities to tell her listeners about the time and place where Jesus lived. She provides an attractive, moving account that references biblical sources sparingly, thereby enlightening and contextualizing the story rather than cluttering and constraining it. Listeners will hear the story of the historical Jesus--the extraordinary Jewish mystic who 2,000 years ago taught and performed miracles in Israel--rather than the view of Jesus sanitized by the all-male King James scholars. Read with informed maturity, this is a story that will enlighten, inform--and inspire. T.W. (c) AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine [Published: OCT/ NOV 04]