4umi Khalil Gibran : Jesus, The Son Of Man

Jesus

The Son of Man

His words and His deeds
as told and recorded
by those who knew Him

Logo from the first print.

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New York, Alfred A. Knopf


The first edition. Jesus, the Son of Man is a collection of short stories which seek to portray Jesus from the point of view of seventy seven people around him, Greeks and Romans, Jews and Persians, both friend and foe. Some are based on actual characters from the New Testament, some are created by Gibran.

First published in 1928, by Alfred A. Knopf, New York.


The chapters

  1. James the son of Zebedee   On the kingdoms of the world
  2. Anna the mother of Mary   On the birth of Jesus
  3. Assaph called the Orator of Tyre   On the speech of Jesus
  4. Mary Magdalen   On meeting Jesus for the first time
  5. Philemon a Greek Apothecary   On Jesus the master physician
  6. Simon who was called Peter   When he and his brother were called
  7. Caiaphas   The High Priest
  8. Joanna the wife of Herod's steward   On children
  9. Rafca   The Bride of Cana
  10. A Persian Philosopher in Damascus   Of ancient Gods and new
  11. David one of his followers   Jesus the practical
  12. Luke   On hypocrites
  13. Matthew   The sermon on the mount
  14. John the son of Zebedee   On the various apellations of Jesus
  15. A young priest of Capernaum   Of Jesus the magician
  16. A rich levi near the Nazarene   Jesus the carpenter
  17. A shepherd in South Lebanon   A parable
  18. John the Baptist   He speaks in prison to one of His disciples
  19. Joseph of Arimathea   On the primal aims of Jesus
  20. Nathaniel   Jesus was not meek
  21. Saba of Antioch   On Saul of Tarsus
  22. Salome to a woman friend   A desire unfulfilled
  23. Rachael a woman disciple   On Jesus the vision and the man
  24. Cleopas of Bethroune   On the law and the prophets
  25. Naaman of the Gadarenes   On the death of Stephen
  26. Thomas   On the forefathers of his doubts
  27. Elmadam the logician   Jesus the outcast
  28. One of the Mary's   On His sadness and His smile
  29. Rumanous a Greek poet   Jesus the poet
  30. Levi a disciple   On Those who would confound Jesus
  31. A widow in Galilee   Jesus the cruel
  32. Judas the cousin of Jesus   On the death of John the Baptist
  33. The man from the desert   On the money-changers
  34. Peter   On the morrow of His followers
  35. Melachi of Babylon, an astronomer   The miracles of Jesus
  36. A philosopher   On wonder and beauty
  37. Uriah, an old man of Nazareth   He was a stranger in our midst
  38. Nicodemus the poet   On fools and jugglers
  39. Joseph of Arimathea   The two streams in Jesus' heart
  40. Georgus of Beirut   On strangers
  41. Mary Magdalen   His mouth was like the heart of a pomegranate
  42. Jotham of Nazareth to a Roman   On living and being
  43. Ephraim of Jericho   The other wedding-feast
  44. Barca, a merchant of Tyre   On buying and selling
  45. Phumiah, the high Priestess of Sidon   An invocation
  46. Benjamin the scribe   Let the dead bury their dead
  47. Zacchaeus   On the fate of Jesus
  48. Jonathan   Among the water-lilies
  49. Hannah of Bethsaida   She speaks of her father's sister
  50. Manasseh   On the speech and gesture of Jesus
  51. Jephtha of Caesarea   A man weary of Jesus
  52. John the beloved disciple   On Jesus the Word
  53. Mannus the Pompeiian, to a Greek   On the Semitic Deity
  54. Pontius Pilatus   Of Eastern Rites and Cults
  55. Bartholomew in Ephesus   On slaves and outcasts
  56. Matthew   On Jesus by a prison wall
  57. Andrew   On prostitutes
  58. A rich man   On possessions
  59. John at Patmos   Jesus the gracious
  60. Peter   On the neighbor
  61. A cobbler in Jerusalem   A neutral
  62. Suzannah of Nazareth   Of the youth and manhood of Jesus
  63. Joseph surnamed Justus   Jesus the wayfarer
  64. Philip   And when He died all Mankind died
  65. Birbarah of Yammouni   On Jesus the impatient
  66. Pilate's wife to a Roman lady
  67. A man outside of Jerusalem   Of Judas
  68. Sarkis an old Greek shepherd   Jesus and Pan
  69. Annas the high priest   On Jesus the rabble
  70. A woman, one of Mary's neighbors   A lamentation
  71. Ahaz the portly   The keeper of the inn
  72. Barabbas   The last words of Jesus
  73. Claudius a Roman sentinel   Jesus the stoic
  74. James the brother of the Lord   The last supper
  75. Simon the Cyrene   He who carried the cross
  76. Cyborea   The mother of Judas
  77. The woman in Byblos   A lamentation
  78. Mary Magdalen, thirty years later   On the resurrection of the spirit
  79. A man from Lebanon   Nineteen centuries afterward
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