With comprehensive knowledge of Roman and Jewish history, innovative exegeses of the Tanakh, and beyond the pale philosophical inquiries, José Saramago, the Patron Saint of Ironists, creates a life of Jesus of Nazareth—from his undocumented early years to the everyday occurrences which make any human being who they are—both wholly believable and undoubtedly provocative to anyone willing to read it.
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