Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt: A
Novel by Anne Rice
Out Of Egypt Straight Into Our Hearts!
Having completed the two cycles of legend to which she has devoted her
career so far, Anne Rice gives us now her most ambitious and courageous
book, a novel about the early years of CHRIST THE LORD, based on the
Gospels and on the most respected New Testament scholarship.
The book’s power derives from the passion its author brings to the writing
and the way in which she summons up the voice, the presence, the words
of Jesus who tells the story.

From the Hardcover edition.
Personal Review: Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt: A Novel by
Anne Rice
This is a phenomenal book, the most moving, senstive, and unique
portrayal of Jesus I have ever read. Anne Rice assumes the most difficult
task of showing us the world through the eyes of the young Jesus as his
family leaves Egypt and returns home to Nazareth following the death of
Herod the Great. One can see that a phenomenal amount of research
went into this book in order to depict Jesus' life in ancient Israel with the
greatest possible authenticity. And the author succeeds greatly in this, a
true labor of meticulously researched love.
(One is reminded of the great Zeferelli film, Jesus of Nazareth, which also
went to great lengths to depict with minute authenticity the cultural
environment of the Jewish society in which Jesus grew up, ministered, and
ultimately died a tragic and gruesome death.)
Some of the things that most struck me in this book:
1. the great love with which the young Jesus is surrounded from both his
extended family and the general community in Nazareth.
2. the love of the Pharisaic rabbis in Nazareth, who served as the school
teachers, for the people, and vica versa.
3. the simple but courageous virtues of Joseph and Mary, who are
depicted with unnerving humanity and taken down from the iconic stage on
which the author's Catholic Church usually places them.
4. the interrogation Jesus receives from the rabbis in order to enrol in the
local school is very dramatic.
5. James' confession to Jesus about hating and envying him also is very
dramatic.
6. the friendly interaction between Jesus' parents and their young priestly
relative who will become the future High Priest who will preside over
Jesus' death sentence in the Sanhedrin is eery and foreboding.
7. the author's epilogue, in which she confides to the reader her own
fascinating spiritual journey from faith to atheism and back to faith again is
an unusually poignant touch that one rarely if ever finds in modern
authorship.
8. Above all the author's sensitive depiction of the struggles of the young
Jesus to understand who he is and how God expects him to utilize his
great Divine powers is breathtaking.

Read this book and your understanding both of Jesus and of the positive
and negative elements of the Jewish society in which he was raised and
nurtured will be forever altered and you will be come away spiritually
enriched. Highly recommended! It also would be highly worthy to translate
this novel into Hebrew for distribution in Israel. Israelis know all the wrong
things about Christianity and none of the right things. They particularly are
impressed that Christianity has been a tool for the Roman Empire to
oppress and victimize Jews throughout the past 2000 years. This book,
written by a devout Catholic author, would go a long way to disabusing
Israeli Jews of some of their misconceptions about the Christian Faith and
would enable them to look at Jesus with genuine admiration for his
authentic Jewishness that is brought out so strikingly by Anne Rice.
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