title: Jesus the Son of Man
author:  Kahlil Gibran 
description: Here Jesus is portrayed through the words of 77 contemporaries who knew him - enemies and friends: Syrians, Romans, Jews, priests, and poets. This edition restores the original format with 2 paintings and 12 drawings.
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  JESUS
  THE SON OF MAN
  "I know now
  that the book will never be
  a book
  to me, but always a host
  of
  living
  entities, breathing and
  vocal. And not
  be-
  cause
  of
  Kahlil
  Gibran, my
  well-beloved
  friend, but rather because of the livingness
  of Anna, the mother of Mary; of Matthew
  and the Sermon on the Mount
  ; of Joseph of
  Arimathaea,
  reporting the words of Jesus;
  of Susannah of Nazareth, and her story of
  the Mother of Jesus; of Mary Magdalen,
  and of Cyborea, the mother of Judas.
  It
  is
  these who live upon the pages of
  this book,
  not
  the
  great man who
  loved
  them
  into
  being.
  Gibran has done his work supremely
  well.
  It has been done with single power by
  one fully conscious of the social and political
  and religious Palestine and Syria and Rome
  of that period, one who was a