Jesus The Son of Man: His Words and His Deeds as Told and Recorded by Those Who Knew Him
by Kahlil Gibran
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good +/Fair
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966 Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1966. Hardcover. Stated 21st Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a F/O name on the FFFP and occasional highlighting in the text. Book Condition: Good +; light bumping to head and tail. DJ: Fair; Price Clipped; missing pieces at head, tail, and tips; light wear to spine shoulders and flap folds. Black cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine; embossed lettering on the front board; gilt hand holding humanity. Tan endpapers. 216 pp 8vo. For Kahlil Gibran, re-telling the story of Jesus had been the ambition of a life time. He had known it from childhood, when as a poor boy in the Middle-East, he'd been taught by a priest reading the bible with him. Now, in his maturity - and a successful writer in the USA - he wanted tell the story as no one had told it before. With 'Jesus, the Son of Man', he did just that. Set alongside Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, here is 'The Gospel according to Gibran.' Gibran's approach is to allow the reader to see Jesus through the eyes of a large and disparate group of people. Some of these characters will be familiar: we hear from Peter; Mary his mother; Luke; Pontius Pilate, Thomas and Mary Magdalene. But many other characters are new, created by Gibran, including a Jerusalem cobbler, an old Greek shepherd - and the mother of Judas. 'My son was a good man and upright, ' she tells us. 'He was tender and kind to me, and he loved his kin and his countrymen.' What connects these people is the fact that they all have an opinion about Jesus; though no two opinions are the same. 'The Galilean was a conjuror, and a deceiver, ' says a young priest. But then a woman caught in adultery experienced him in a different way. 'When Jesus didn't judge me, I became a woman without a tainted memory, and I was free and my head was no longer bowed.' With each fresh voice, a different aspect of Jesus' character is explored; and a different reaction named. The Logician is clear in his distrust: 'Behold a man disorderly, against all order; a mendicant opposed to all possessions; 'But for Gibran himself, whose Lebanese roots placed him close to the Galilean, Jesus is worth rather more; and is present still: 'But Master, Sky-heart, knight of our fairer dream, You do still tread this way. No bows nor spears shall stray your steps; You walk through all our arrows. You smile down upon us, And though you are the youngest of us all, You father us all. Poet, Singer, Great Heart! May our God bless your name.' A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016760
- Title
- Jesus The Son of Man: His Words and His Deeds as Told and Recorded by Those Who Knew Him
- Author
- Kahlil Gibran
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1966
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- religion, God, Jesus, Kahlil Gibran, The Son of Man, the Saints, The Apostles, The books of the Bible,
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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