JESUS, THE LIFE-CHANGER
Exclusive: the people Jesus met – in their own words
By Simon J. Robinson. Day One. 126 pages. £7.00
ISBN 978 1 846 251 238
A strange book! The author takes familiar stories with lesser-known Bible characters and gives a fictional background to them. So, for example, the woman with the issue of blood, of whom we actually know very little, is portrayed in a fictional way. Drawing on the culture of the day and the information we are given in the Bible, the author speculates about her personal situation and builds a story around her.
At first I found this very frustrating. The approach seemed to be ‘reading into the text’, which I felt might prove confusing to someone from a non-church background. However, as I read on I found myself engrossed in the stories and really enjoyed the accounts built around the Bible characters.
