5/10/2023 0 Comments The longing by sue monk kiddThis study guide uses the 2020 Viking hardcover edition. If true, that would make the wife of Jesus the most present absence in recorded human history. The Book of Longings, a New York Times best seller, earned critical plaudits for both its historical realism and for its daring premise that Christ and his ministry were shaped at least in part from his relationship with a woman he loved very much not as a God but as a man. Part meticulously researched historical fiction and part provocative feminist theological speculation, The Book of Longings is supremely a love story between Jesus ben Joseph, an itinerant stonemason and part-time carpenter from Nazareth, and Ana, a feisty, willful, passionate, privileged, and well-educated daughter of a well-placed scribe in Herod’s occupational government in Galilee, an aspiring writer who is profoundly frustrated by the limited opportunities for women to express themselves. That he might have taken a wife, as was customary, and might have had a family wider than the iconic figures of his parents Mary and Joseph has for two millennia been dismissed by Christian thinkers as unfounded and heretical. Little is known about the 33 years of the life of the Hebrew religious philosopher, social activist, and political agitator known today as Jesus Christ, save the last three years of his public ministry. In creating a first-person narrative of the wife of Jesus, veteran novelist Sue Monk Kidd acknowledged that The Book of Longings (2020) was controversial, even incendiary.
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