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...succession of keen historical settings. In three short pages he traces the history of Israel from the days of the slavery in Egypt to the later slavery under Rome. And he does it with such vividness that the reader really lives in the time of Christ. Renan, Stalker, Edersheim and any number of others have written the life of Christ. Renan's opening sentence is: "Jesus, the son of Joseph and Mary, was born in Nazareth." In some theological seminaries it is almost an aphorism that every man must write his own life of Christ. Papini lived a life...
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