Jan 2, 2010

The Nazarene | The Nazarene

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Author: Sholem Asch
First Published: 1939
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Historical realism
Time of Work: The first and twentieth centuries
Setting: Palestine
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

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Pan Viadomsky, an anti-Semitic Catholic scholar living in the 1930’s. Old and irascible, he is both brilliant and fraudulent as a researcher of the Holy Land during the first century. He is the reincarnation of the Roman soldier, Cornelius, who apprehended and arrested Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. In his twentieth century incarnation, Viadomsky is still tortured by his memories of Jesus. He is fascinated with Jews as well as with anyone he perceives to be reincarnated from Jerusalem during the time of Jesus. At the same time, he is filled with...

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The Nazarene | The Nazarene

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