![]() Ana harbors a secret longing to be a writer. The Book of Longings tells the story of Ana: daughter of Herod Antipas’s head scribe, sister of Judas Iscariot-and wife of Jesus of Nazareth. Both of these types of preconceptions can be seen in the critical reviews of Sue Monk Kidd’s new novel. After all, if Jesus came to destabilize the familiar, perhaps that’s what literature about Jesus should do as well. Others expect the novel to disturb, challenge, and subvert their presumptions. ![]() Some wish to live more deeply within the historical world of the Bible while remaining inside familiar narrative and theological lines (whatever those might be). ![]() Readers of biblical historical fiction carry vastly different expectations-often unknowingly-when it comes to the author’s responsibility to the biblical text. ![]()
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