An award-winning writer reimagines the life of Jesus, from the points
of view of four people closest to him before his death.
This is the story of Yehoshuah, who wandered Roman-occupied Judea giving
sermons and healing the sick. Now, a year after his death, four people
tell their stories. His mother grieves, his friend Iehuda loses his
faith, the High Priest of the Temple tries to keep the peace, and a
rebel named Bar-Avo strives to bring that peace tumbling down.
It was a time of political power plays and brutal tyranny. Men and women
took to the streets to protest. Dictators put them down with iron force.
In the midst of it all, one inconsequential preacher died. And either
something miraculous happened, or someone lied.
Viscerally powerful in its depictions of the period -- massacres and
riots, animal sacrifice and human betrayal -- The Liars' Gospel makes
the oldest story entirely new.