Word: asch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fisherman, Lloyd Douglas Mary, Sholem Asch The Egyptian, Mika Waltari A Rage to Live, John O'Hara Point of No Return, John Marquand
MARY (436 pp.)-Sholem Asch-Putnam...
...years Sholem Asch has enjoyed international popularity for the novels and short stories he has written out of his vast knowledge of Jewish life and history. Mary concludes his most ambitious work, a trilogy on the beginnings of Christianity that already includes bestselling lives of Christ (The Nazarene) and St. Paul (The Apostle). In both earlier books Asch had a dramatic lifeline to follow, and he followed it skillfully, feeding in a fascinating mass of scholarly wrinkles, though often he enlarged on Gospel truth. On Mary's life the Scripture is scant, and Asch had to enlarge still further...
...When Yeshua begins to sense his Messiahship (in a miraculous answer to prayer at 13), Miriam's life becomes a struggle between motherly joy and motherly foreboding. After the miracle of the wine at the wedding in Cana, she loses sight of him until just before the end. Asch brings her into the Garden of Gethsemane to eavesdrop on the arrest, a few pages further has her climb to where the cross stands on Golgotha...
...Long Ride. This, says Asch in effect, is how it might have been. He has borrowed from the Gospels, borrowed from the Apocrypha, borrowed from the traditions of Jewish life. His central purpose has been to make Christians and Jews realize what they have in common: "It has been my intention to demonstrate the interdependence of the two faiths in the hope that mutual understanding might bring about a better world...