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The Misconceived Conception of a Baby Named Jesus
Hardcover
Publisher: Koehler Books
Published: Dec 5 2024
Pages: 246
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Awarded First Place in the 2024 Chanticleer International Book Awards (CIBA) in the Category of Humor & Satire
Burkland packs immense humor and irony into his prose... The BookLife Prize
A fun, pithy sendup of one of the best-known origin stories. -Kirkus Reviews
...a sharp, shrewd, witty, and occasionally wacky alternate-universe Bible... -Greg Thompson, writer-producer
This book merits book-club discussion and argument. -Glenn R. Miller, author
On a warm Galilean night, Mary and Joseph get to know each other (in the biblical sense) in a secluded garden in Nazareth. Nine months later, Mary's pious mother, seeing that her young, unwed daughter is pregnant, enlists the help of a pompous high priest to characterize the pregnancy as divine, of God's seed. When Mary refuses to go along with her mother's scheme, she and Joseph enter a battle with her parents over every aspect of the birth and the fate of their baby.
As word of a miraculous virgin birth spreads through Bethlehem, factions form, and allegiances shift among unscrupulous shepherds, dubious Wise Men, an elderly innkeeper, an earnest but malodorous peasant and an aging cat with a penchant for prophecy-all trying to answer the crucial question: Is the baby named Jesus truly the Son of God or merely a mortal born of earthly parents?
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