Word: hims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In the slit-eyed world of a country village, the boy's mother Miriam conceived him mysteriously. Promised in marriage to Yosef the builder, she found herself pregnant without explanation--she had known no man, not intimately. Steeped in the malice of small-town talk, she knew not to tell...
He had looked very much like an actual man, a lot like her elder brother Amos, who had been her favorite but had died in agony with a breathing demon--tuberculosis--when she was nine. The angel had Amos' startling eyes, a light brown, but his voice plainly said, "I...
But before he finished that, she looked well past him--the rim of the skyline back of his shoulders--and there was an odd cloud forming itself in the shape of a dark bird rushing toward her. She met the angel's eyes again, gave an awkward nod and said...
So the boy grew up--she called him Yeshu from his full name, Yeshua--in the same narrow town: one narrow lane, two rows of rock houses, sealed with mud and roofed with branches daubed with mud, and each house full of the mouths he could hear saying "Bastard, Miriam...
By the time Yeshu grew to full manhood--the blacksmith in Yosef's building concern and the best smith in Galilee--he was still called bastard in Nazareth whispers. He had never heard Yosef deny the charge, nor even his mother, who told him only, "They're not completely right...