About this title: A journalist/historian's approach to the most dramatic day in Christian history. Beginning with the start of the Hebrew day at six p.m. and moving toward the time Jesus partook of the Last Supper with his apostles, this book takes readers through to four p.m. of the next day, the sorrowful moment when he was removed from the cross.
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Edition: Book Club Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York
Date Published: 1957
Description: Good in good dust jacket. 1957 Harper & Brothers hard cover. NOT EX LIB! Clean pages, lightly tanned, light reading wear, some notes inside back cover, mild edgewear. DJ has moderate to heavy edgewear, small tears, some scuffing. 319 p. Maps inside covers. Color illustration across from title page. "Book club edition. " Bibliography: p. [320] read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Pocket Books
Date Published: 1964
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Nice soft cover, lightly read, light shelf wear to cover, light creases on spine, watwer marks inside covers& on top corner of pages, light rippling to cover, bend on bottom corner of front cover, light marks on edges,... 352 p. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harperone
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780060608163ISBN:0060608161
Description: Maier, Paul L, Ph.D. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 272 p. Audience: General/trade. softcover, light edge wear to covers, very small stain to outer closed pages at top outer corner and through to last few pages, no writing in text, prev owner's name, address and embossed seal stamped on fr cov page. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York
Date Published: 1957
Description: Good in Fair jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Good solid hardback with some light general wear and soiling. pages clean and unmarked. dust jacket is solid but has a tear at bottom back. top and bottom of spine are worn. read more
Edition: Book Club Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York
Date Published: 1957
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. 319, [1] p.; 22 cm. Grey & black cloth over boards with gold lettering. Clean, unmarked, and tight. No bumped corners. A little wrinkling at top & bottom of spine. A very nice copy. read more
"There was too much filling in of the blanks and not enough factual evidence. In spite of this, however, he does a decent job of helping you to relive the day Christ died"
"Written by Jim Bishop, author of The Day Christ Was Born and The Day Lincoln Was Shot, it is an interesting but at times boring account based on the prevalent scholarship in the 1950s. I'm not enough of an expert on Biblical archaeology to judge the book's credibility or truthfulness, but I didn't read the book to get a history lesson.
I bought this at a used bookstore about a year and a half ago because it was cheap and looked interesting. As a life-long Christian, I'm familiar with the Passion story, but had never read a fictional account of it.
The book does provide various insights into the familiar story. The fictional narrative is broken up by background sections, in which Bishop offers non-fictional information about Christ's life and times. We learned how the Jews lived, worked, and played in Jerusalem, how the Romans ruled Palestine, and were given a brief account of Jesus' life and ministry. The background sections do provide some helpful contextual information, but much of it could have been worked into the story.
The story itself, at times, reads like a non-fiction account. Dialog is sparse as Bishop preferred to sum up conversations rather than detail them. Bishop writes from multiple points of view, shifting from one character to the next, and interjecting explanations of various passages and utterances.
The result is a novel that reads at times like an encyclopedia article. I usually finish a book like this in a few days or a week, but this took so long because it didn't hold my attention. That surprised me because I am very much fascinated with Biblical history.
If anyone knows of a better novel about Jesus and his times, please let me know."
"This book is a intense retelling of the last day of Christ, beginning at 6pm the day before the crucifixtion and ending at 4pm the day of the crucifixtion. The detail and intensity with which this is written was so impactful I would spend days or weeks between each chapter."
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