Search - Christ the Lord - The Road to Cana

I liked this book a lot. It's the second in Anne Rice's biblical fiction series on the life of Jesus. I found the first book, "Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt" just okay. It was a tad tedious and boring in parts, although it picked up toward the end. "The Road to Cana" I found much more interesting. "Out of Egypt" covers Jesus' childhood through the age of 12 or so, when Jesus learns of his auspicious birth, the events surrounding it and realizes his divinity. "The Road to Cana" begins with Jesus as a man around 30, working with his brothers as a carpenter in Nazarath. I thought Anne Rice did a good job of portraying both Jesus' divinity and his humanity - and how he came to fully acknowledge his divinty and reconcile his divine nature with his very human nature. Some of the events included in the book are Jesus' baptism by his cousin, John the Baptist, his 40 days of wandering the desert and his temptation, his exorcising of Mary Magdalene, the gathering of his disciples and the turning of the water to wine at the wedding in Cana. It's a good read, and fairly quick. I thought Anne portrayed a lot of meaning, without getting too overly philosphically deep. I'm looking forward to the next book in the series.