{"id":1847,"date":"2005-10-27T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T09:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2005\/10\/ann-rice-ala-dan-brown.html"},"modified":"2005-10-27T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-27T09:42:00","slug":"ann-rice-ala-dan-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2005\/10\/ann-rice-ala-dan-brown.html","title":{"rendered":"Ann Rice ala Dan Brown?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

She can cite scholarly authority for giving her Christ a birth date of 11 B.C., and for making James, his disciple, the son of Joseph by a previous marriage. But she\u2019s also taken liberties where they don\u2019t explicitly conflict with Scripture. No one reports that the young Jesus studied with the historian Philo of Alexandria, as the novel has it\u2014or that Jesus\u2019 family was in Alexandria at all. And she\u2019s used legends of the boy Messiah\u2019s miracles from the noncanonical Apocrypha: bringing clay birds to life, striking a bully dead and resurrecting him.<\/p>\n

Rice\u2019s most daring move, though, is to try to get inside the head of a 7-year-old kid who\u2019s intermittently aware that he\u2019s also God Almighty. \u201cThere were times when I thought I couldn\u2019t do it,\u201d she admits. The advance notices say she\u2019s pulled it off: Kirkus Reviews\u2019 starred rave pronounces her Jesus \u201cfully believable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Would that be Brown Rice?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

She can cite scholarly authority for giving her Christ a birth date of 11 B.C., and for making James, his disciple, the son of Joseph by a previous marriage. But she\u2019s also taken liberties where they don\u2019t explicitly conflict with Scripture. 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