Passover Plot

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Summary: Hard to read cover to cover
Review: My copy was printed in 1968, not 1977. The volume is impressively footnoted, which makes one conscious of one's inadequacy to test Schonfeld's text. I am not a Christian and was surprised to hear that Jesus was but one of many siblings and that he was not the Virgin Mary's first child. So Virgin immediately does not have the popularized meaning. I never forgot the PLOT, however. I have literally tried to get further along in the book every decade sice I first bought it. It's a book you have to be in the mood for. I got Kazantzaki'd out of the subject. Can't remember the name of it offhand: it was the one where he wondered from monastery to monastery -- from Thraki and Macedonia to Italy, etc. -- for 40 years of his life and then turned to Communism and then threw it all in. What a waste! I'm not a religionist, so I probably shouldn't read these books where people have made the quest of God their quest of life. They are thought-provoking, but seldom do you find friends who've read the same tomes. But it's worth the read, I suppose!