Not digging it. He reduces the emotions of all female characters to swooning over Jesus when their Gospel counter parts are very opinionated and independent. Only men are permitted in this text to have deep and complex thoughts about Jesus and even Mary Magdalene's exorcism is reduced to Jesus' compassion making her realize she doesn't need to sleep around to experience love. Suspected the same in The Broken Wings when the focus of a young girl being forced to marry an old man was that the male protagonist was unable to marry her (they had only met thrice and were not together in any capacity). ew.

This is definitely better of the 3 Kahlil books I have read (the other two being, The Broken Wings and The Prophet) but the characters are still stilted and 2d which change melodramatically to fit the needs of the author. On a lighter note, the impact of this book is far reaching, I see traces of this formatting in Naguib Mahfouz' Akhenaten and Deepak Chopra's Muhammad.