The Nazarene (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Sholem Asch
- First Published: 1939
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Religious chronicle
- Time of Work: First and twentieth centuries
- Setting: Poland, Italy, and Palestine
- Principal Characters: Pan Viadomsky, A Jewish student, Yeshua, Pontius pilate, Judah Ish-Kiriot, Miriam of migdal, Bar abba
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Religion, 1930’s, Jews or Jewish life, Biblical times, Jesus Christ, Reincarnation, Judaism, Jews and Gentiles, Middle East, Rabbis, First century
- Locales: Palestine
The Story:
Pan Viadomsky had a peculiar reputation in Warsaw. He was generally accounted a great classical scholar—and a trickster. He earlier had been a frequent contributor to the journals of Latin and Greek, and often he settled controversial matters with a curiously minute and cunning knowledge of the ancients. After several years, however, he went too far: he talked and wrote of hidden or obscure events with a maddening air of superiority. He announced the discovery of ancient manuscripts, but he would allow no competent scholar to examine the documents.
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