Vilandra
10-25-2005, 07:53 AM
12:00 AM, 25-OCTOBER-05
Rice Turns To Christ
Anne Rice, the original Queen of the Damned, told Newsweek that longtime fans of her Vampire Chronicles books may be surprised by her next book: Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, a novel about the 7-year-old Jesus, narrated by Christ himself. "I promised that from now on I would write only for the Lord," Rice told the magazine in its Oct. 31 edition.
Out of Egypt is the first of four project volumes. "I was ready to do violence to my career," Rice writes in the afterword. But she sees a continuity with her old books, whose compulsive, conscience-stricken evildoers reflect her long spiritual unease. "I mean, I was in despair," Rice told Newsweek. In that afterword she calls Christ "the ultimate supernatural hero ... the ultimate immortal of them all."
To write the book, Rice immersed herself not only in Scripture, but in first-century histories and New Testament scholarship, some of which she found disturbingly skeptical. "Even Hitler scholarship usually allows Hitler a certain amount of power and mystery," she said. She's also taken liberties where they don't explicitly conflict with Scripture. No one reports that the young Jesus studied with the historian Philo of Alexandria, as the novel has it, or that Jesus' family was in Alexandria at all. And she's used legends of the boy Messiah's miracles from the noncanonical Apocrypha: bringing clay birds to life, striking a bully dead and resurrecting him, the magazine reported. Rice already has much of the next volume written, but declines to talk about it. Christ the Lord hits bookstores on Nov. 1.
Source: SciFiWire (http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?category=0&id=32995)
Does anyone else think she might have gone more bonkers than usual with this one?
Rice Turns To Christ
Anne Rice, the original Queen of the Damned, told Newsweek that longtime fans of her Vampire Chronicles books may be surprised by her next book: Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, a novel about the 7-year-old Jesus, narrated by Christ himself. "I promised that from now on I would write only for the Lord," Rice told the magazine in its Oct. 31 edition.
Out of Egypt is the first of four project volumes. "I was ready to do violence to my career," Rice writes in the afterword. But she sees a continuity with her old books, whose compulsive, conscience-stricken evildoers reflect her long spiritual unease. "I mean, I was in despair," Rice told Newsweek. In that afterword she calls Christ "the ultimate supernatural hero ... the ultimate immortal of them all."
To write the book, Rice immersed herself not only in Scripture, but in first-century histories and New Testament scholarship, some of which she found disturbingly skeptical. "Even Hitler scholarship usually allows Hitler a certain amount of power and mystery," she said. She's also taken liberties where they don't explicitly conflict with Scripture. No one reports that the young Jesus studied with the historian Philo of Alexandria, as the novel has it, or that Jesus' family was in Alexandria at all. And she's used legends of the boy Messiah's miracles from the noncanonical Apocrypha: bringing clay birds to life, striking a bully dead and resurrecting him, the magazine reported. Rice already has much of the next volume written, but declines to talk about it. Christ the Lord hits bookstores on Nov. 1.
Source: SciFiWire (http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?category=0&id=32995)
Does anyone else think she might have gone more bonkers than usual with this one?