HF Fanatics

Loren Woodson’s new novel “The Passion of Maryam” is going to really tick some people off. No, it’s not “The Da Vinci Code”, but it does portray Mary, the Virgin Mother, as a victim of rape, and Jesus as a product of that crime. She states that the book is historically accurate and entirely plausible.

”The product of seven years of research including consultation with numerous Biblical scholars, the study of Hebrew and Greek, and site visits in the Holy Land, Woodson’s reconsideration delves deeply into the life of the Virgin Mother and her relationship with her charismatic son.”

I’m left wondering how she could study the same historical documents as everyone else and yet come to a completely different and new conclusion. Couldn’t have anything to do with the fact that controversy sells books, now, could it?