Jesus As rue Weste Kew Hine—By 'Tunnieuite. Ivor' Nicholson Watson, London. 6/-.
Miss Maude Rayden in an appreciative foreword to this book says that it comes opportunely after Mary Borden's "Mary of Nazareth," which, deeply Interesting as it was, scarcely [aid complete justice either' to Jesus lor to His mother. Mr. Tunnicliffe has set himself the dificult task of seeing [Jesus through the eyes of some fourteen women named in the Gospels who include Mary His Mother: Mary the sister of Martha; Mary of Magdala; JJoanna; Salome; the Woman [Samaria; Peter's wife's mother: Sus-Janua; the Wife of Jairus; the Woman in the Crowd: the Syrophoenician woman; the Widow of Nain; the Woman taken in Adultery: the wife of Pontius Pilate. It is, perhaps, too much to expect that the author coult possess Browning's gift of projection into his men and women and make leach of these fourteen women take life as a distinctive personality. The {interest throughout, of course, jupon Jesus as the women knew Him and not upon the women themselves. Nevertheless, there are many interesting side-lights upon their lives and circumstances. Based upon a scholarly study of the Gospels and their back: ground, the book can be warmly re-[commended as not unequal to its high and dificult intention. Perhaps no subsequent reconstructions of the Gospel narrative have quite approahed the standard set "By an unknown Disctpl with great Interest, apert altogether from its religious' values, [by those who appreciate good writing and intelligent imagination—n.c.
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