Benedict on Jesus’s birth

Leonardo De Chirico  |  Reviews
Date posted:  1 Jan 2013
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JESUS OF NAZARETH
The Infancy Narratives
By Pope Benedict XVI. Burns & Oates. 144 pages. £12.99
ISBN 978 1 408 194 539

One million copies of Jesus of Nazareth — The Infancy Narratives, published in 29 languages and distributed in 73 countries. These are the raw figures on the latest book about Jesus by Pope Benedict XVI.

The new volume follows the 2007 one that touched on the story of Jesus from his baptism to the Transfiguration, and the 2011 one which dealt with the Passion and the Resurrection. The new book focuses on the Infancy Narratives in the Gospels.

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