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From the June 2005 issue of Locus Magazine:

"Anne Rice has turned her attention from vampires and witches to a different sort of supernatural protagonist: Jesus Christ. Her new book, Christ the Lord, is set in 1st-century Palestine and begins when Jesus is seven years old. This fictional biography, based on Biblical scholarship, covers the portion of Christ's life that is not addressed in the Gospels. Rice thinks her old fans will follow her in this new direction: "They like supernatural heroes, and Jesus is one. They like outsiders, and he is one. I hope and pray they'll see the continuity, and they'll like it." Christ the Lord will be published in November 2005."

Date: 2005-11-03 03:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meteordust.livejournal.com
I can only remember the conversation he had with the elders, and the water into wine incident. I don't know much about what other sources of info there might be. But I think there would be very, very few writers who could attempt something like this and be taken seriously, and Anne Rice is not one of them.

I'm also kind of amused that one of the Amazon reviews calls it "little more than a novelization of the Gospels". XD

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