{"product_id":"2026200012936-secondhand-king-jesus","title":"King Jesus","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat if the story of Jesus of Nazareth was not merely divine myth but a carefully orchestrated political and dynastic reality? King Jesus by Robert Graves presents a radical and meticulously researched reimagining of the life of Jesus Christ, arguing that he was the legitimate heir to the throne of Israel through a secret lineage connecting him to both King David and the royal Hasmonean dynasty. Set against the turbulent, richly textured world of first-century Judaea — a land groaning under Roman occupation and fractured by competing religious sects — the novel chronicles Jesus not as a figure of gentle parable, but as a resolute, kingly man fully conscious of his legal and spiritual inheritance. Graves reconstructs the political intrigues, the Essene traditions, and the Hellenistic mystery cults that shaped the world into which his protagonist steps with quiet, commanding authority.\n\nA towering achievement in historical fiction, King Jesus showcases Graves's formidable classical scholarship and his singular gift for breathing ferocious life into the ancient world — a craft honed across celebrated works such as I, Claudius and Claudius the God. Graves writes with the precision of a historian and the imagination of a poet, weaving a narrative that is at once reverential and deeply subversive, challenging centuries of received theological orthodoxy. The result is a portrait of a man so human in his ambition and so transcendent in his vision that it leaves the reader questioning where history ends and legend truly begins.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203278545115,"sku":"2026200012936-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/f16ed5a2-7658-48a6-bac3-3b50f7925d17.png?v=1788147340","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200012936-secondhand-king-jesus","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}