The Boyhood of Christ — From the Author of Ben-HurBefore the miracles. Before the disciples. Before the Cross.

There was the boy.

The Gospels tell us almost nothing about the childhood of Jesus, leaving nearly three decades of his life in silence. Lew Wallace—the legendary author of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ—steps into that mystery with one of his most intimate works of Christian imagination.

The Boyhood of Christ turns away from the spectacle of the Passion and asks a quieter, more human question: What might it have been like to watch Jesus grow?

Here is Christ before the crowds: at home with Mary, learning, observing, questioning, and moving through the ordinary world of childhood while carrying an extraordinary destiny.

First published in 1889, Wallace’s devotional portrait belongs to the great tradition of Christian literature that sought to imagine the hidden years between Bethlehem and the beginning of Jesus’ public ministry. It is not Scripture and does not claim to be an ancient lost gospel. Instead, it is a literary meditation from the creator of one of the most famous Christ-centered novels ever written.

This new audiobook edition is narrated by Dennis Logan, best-selling narrator of The Books of Enoch, The Lost Books of the Bible, and numerous works of biblical, apocryphal, and sacred literature.

For listeners of Ben-Hur, biblical fiction, Christian classics, the infancy traditions, apocryphal literature, historical Jesus narratives, and stories exploring the mysterious hidden years of Christ.

Before the world knew the teacher, healer, Messiah, and crucified Christ, Lew Wallace imagined the child.

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