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Cargando... Jesus and the Eightfold Path (2011)por Lavie Tidhar
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This was glorious blasphemy, a religious melange with a dash of Shaolin ballet. Jesus as Tripitaka, as warrior monk, as the Hebrew Fist. It was such fun, and full of such irreverent erudition, it makes me wish for further adventures. ( ) Jesus and the Eightfold path is a very quick read, and if you're in the mood for a spot of religious cross-fertilization, leavened with a fistful of parody, you'll probably be in the right place for Lavie Tidhar's novella. A rather slight take on Jesus' life, told from the PoV of the Wise Men (buddhist demons/deities) and Judas (Josephus), in which Jesus is a buddha, learning kung-fu etc. It has some rather amusing moments and lines, and if you enjoyed this then I'd suggest also reading a rather more substantial offering in Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, by Christopher Moore. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Three wise men came from the East for the infant Jesus in The New Testament. Three brave companions accompany the Buddha in the Chinese classic A Journey to the West. Could they have been the same three? Guided by a star, three strange companions arrive in the barbarous land of Judea to seek a newborn child-a possible messiah to some, and the reincarnation of the Budda to others. When the child's life is threatened, his family and new guardians escape to Egypt, returning years later, to a Jewish land on the cusp of annihilation by the Roman Empire. Once a general in the Judean army, now a Roman agent, Josephus Flavius is sent by Caesar back to his home land to observe and report on the actions of the troubling young man now preaching sedition in the Galilee - a boy with the unsettling powers of kung-fu. . . Their lives would collide in a cataclysmic confrontation between Romans and Jews, between empire and rebels-and change the world forever. . .REVIEWS: "inspired and fantastical" - Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine "A vivid and gonzo reimagining of the life of Jesus. . . hugely entertaining" - Locus Magazine No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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