Besides the Gospels, what’s the best literary treatment
of the life of the Messiah? David Masciotra, for the Daily Beast, looks at the many efforts,
from Anne Rice to Norman Mailer.
In addition to inspiring an entire
religion, Jesus also inspired many works of fiction. Some are loyal to
the account of Jesus’s life told in the Synoptic Gospels, and some take
poetic, dramatic, and speculative license. The Jesus novel is a small
and largely unrecognized genre of literature that often gives Christians
new insight into the story of their savior, and provides non-believers
with an artistic means of accessing a tale containing all of the most
effective tools of drama—pity, terror, sadness, heroism, tragedy, and
redemption.
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