Summery:  Study Guides / The Book of Longings  STUDY GUIDE The Book of Longings Sue Monk Kidd  49 pages • 1 hour read • Listen SUE MONK KIDD The Book of Longings Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020 A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. DOWNLOAD PDF ACCESS FULL GUIDE Study Guide Before You Read Beta Summary Chapter Summaries & Analyses Pages 1-84 Pages 85-183 Pages 184-254 Pages 255-356 Pages 357-396 Pages 397-407 Character Analysis Themes Symbols & Motifs Important Quotes Essay Topics Tools Beta Discussion Questions Summary and Study Guide Overview In creating a first-person narrative of the wife of Jesus, veteran novelist Sue Monk Kidd acknowledged that The Book of Longings (2020) was controversial, even incendiary. Little is known about the 33 years of the life of the Hebrew religious philosopher, social activist, and political agitator known today as Jesus Christ, save the last three years of his public ministry. That he might have taken a wife, as was customary, and might have had a family wider than the iconic figures of his parents Mary and Joseph has for two millennia been dismissed by Christian thinkers as unfounded and heretical. Part meticulously researched historical fiction and part provocative feminist theological speculation, The Book of Longings is supremely a love story between Jesus ben Joseph, an itinerant stonemason and part-time carpenter from Nazareth, and Ana, a feisty, willful, passionate, privileged, and well-educated daughter of a well-placed scribe in Herod’s occupational government in Galilee, an aspiring writer who is profoundly frustrated by the limited opportunities for women to express themselves. 

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