THE PASSION OF MARYAM is a dramatic search for the person within the icon of the Virgin Mother. A pious first-century young woman suffers a profound violation that plunges her into doubt about her faith and beliefs in the God of Israel. She endures to become a wife and mother, who struggles with her entrancing and enigmatic firstborn. Their interaction at his cruel execution shines light into the shadowed layers of their relationship with each other and with the God, and climaxes her struggle to turn unfathomable evil into the transcendent mystery of the divine.
THE PASSION OF MARYAM is a dramatic search for the person embodied in the icon of the Virgin Mother. What might she really have been like? What might her relationship have been with her charismatic son and with God? While Mary and Jesus—Maryam and Yeshua—are usually pictured as embodying unsullied good, what if it had been the case that both, from the beginning, had been forced to seek the holy from an abyss of evil? Would that not reveal a particular depth and reach to their unique lives? In a meditation on good, evil, and the divine, the novel finds within the iconic Virgin a pious Galilean young woman who suffers a profound violation that plunges her into doubt about her faith and beliefs in the God of Israel. She endures to become a wife and mother, who struggles with her entrancing and enigmatic firstborn. Their interaction at his cruel execution shines light into the shadowed layers of their relationship with each other and with the Holy One, God of Israel, and climaxes her struggle to turn unfathomable evil into the transcendent mystery of the divine. This reveals anew the imperishability of a mother’s love, even as it exposes the cost to her and her son of being chosen by God.
To ensure as accurate a picture as possible of its first-century setting, the novel is the product of seven years of research into numerous biblical and scholarly sources, the study of Hebrew and Greek, and visits to the Holy Land. My debt to the large number of Biblical scholars with whom I have consulted and whose works I have read is enormous.
Poetry. Various urgent, lively, and sometimes haunting poems appear here alongside stark black and white photos of Jones' homeless subjects. Jones takes on the plight of the homeless in different voices, echoing the thoughts of people on the streets,
Intuitively, I know I've lived many lifetimes, and none more interesting than the one I'm living now. However, being born an old soul somehow did not excuse me from the same job I share with you and that is learning to craft a positive attitude about
Finally, the commentary that adds even more to the diagramed version of The Easy Study Bible. Follow the diagramed verses of this new clear translation with a verse by verse commentary. Understand even better the New Testament book of Philippians.
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