A Love Divine is a fictional version of the life of Joseph of Arimathea, the man in the Bible who gave Jesus his tomb. Joseph is also a figure in Christian myth-it is said that he was the man to first bring Christianity to England. I am not really sure I personally believe that, but it makes for a good story.
The novel follows Joseph from the start of his life on a farm in the Plains of Sharon, to his career as a ship owner and merchant, and his eventually conversion from Judaism to Christianity, and his life as a wandering preacher of the word of god. The book is well researched, and gives a nice look at what life might have been like at that time period.
A Love Divine
Alexandra Ripley
11/74
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