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This confronting and profoundly controversial novel exposes the real Mary, mother of Jesus, in a way she’s never been seen before.
Though she’s the world’s most famous mother, virtually nothing is known about her. Now, internationally published and translated novelist Alan Gold portrays Mary as a subject of Roman Judea, a wife and mother who lived in the first Century A.D. under one of the cruellest occupiers in history. This is a book which will open the eyes of readers to what life was truly like then, and why Mary’s suffering was a consequence of her life and times.
She’s the most famous woman in history, yet almost nothing is known about her. Although she’s portrayed as the gentlest and most tragic of all women, her name has been used as an excuse for internecine hatred and wars between peoples.
But who was Mary, mother of Jesus Christ? What type of a family did she have? What the community like in which she grew from child to teenager forced to marry a man three times her age?
And why have virtually all the details of her early life been obscured and censored by the writers of the Bible?
In THE BOOK OF MARY, novelist Alan Gold looks at first century Israel under the iron heels of Roman occupation and uncovers what life was like for a young woman in a distant outpost of the most aggressive and merciless Empire in history. Following Mary’s story from teenager to a young woman married to a widower, to mother, and then to devotee of her Son’s religious, this tragic yet virtually unknown woman is forced to witness the excruciating pain of her son’s crucifixion.
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