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The First Christmas Carol (2013)

by Marianne Jordan(Favorite Author)

4.47 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1938499735 (ISBN13: 9781938499739)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas

review 1: I found this Dickens adaptation of the first Christmas irritating rather than clever. It is based on this relatively new assumption that Mary and Joseph were poor and homeless. Joseph was not only an older man, but a skilled tradesman. He was a carpenter. He had a home...in Nazareth. He had money for a room. The bible doesn't state that they were penniless, just that there was a "no vacancy" sign flashing at the inn. I think it says something about our modern generation that we feel the need to tweak this couple into being poor and homeless rather than have them be a middle class couple who arrived in town late. Maybe the thought is that if we transform them into a homeless couple then we will have more compassion on the homeless around us?
review 2: At firs... moret I was reluctant to read this book because it almost sounded like heresy to mix the story of the birth of the Savior of the World with a Dickens tale from centuries later. But I'm glad I overcame my reluctance because the pairing of the two stories made me see the Christmas story from a different perspective. The greedy, selfish, evil innkeeper, Ebenezer, travels with three different angels on journeys to the past, present, and future. His assistant Isaac (as Dickens' Cratchit) allows Mary and Joseph to use the stable; Ebenezer had already turned them away earlier in the day. Ebenezer's visit to the future took him through Jesus's adult life, and it is through his encounters with the Savior that he was saved. The story is so well-written that the reader feels like he or she is hearing Mary's cries when she is in labor. We can almost feel Jesus's eyes upon us as He looks at Ebenezer and into his heart; we see the miracles and hear the Lord's words. We cringe when the Messiah is scourged, and we watch His last moments on the cross. Every time Jesus asks Ebenezer, "Do you believe in Me?" we feel compelled to answer. May everyone who reads this book answer, "Yes, Lord. You are the Messiah, the Savior of the World, the only Way to the Father." less

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