Fiction or Non-Fiction?

Anne Rice has brought to fruition a novel with enormous benefit for the reader and consequent benefit to our society.

Rice has worked at understanding the history, the sociology, and the religious culture of the first century CE. She has studied the scriptures and the corollary commentaries of contemporary scholars. Rice has written the story that is absent from the Gospels. Rice writes of Jesus, born in Bethlehem and exiled to Egypt, as a youngster discerning his role in life and identity as a young boy.

This story, 'Christ The Lord: Out of Egypt', is fiction and non-fiction.

The story is narrative woven by Rice from the threads of the clues in the Gospels and the historical understanding of life in Judea at that time.

Read and reflect upon that great mystery.