Review: Profound!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 28, 2014
This book is profound!  It begins where the last known story of Jesus ends and in this book, Joshua represents Jesus.  It must be remembered that the author wrote this book as a work of fiction, however, it is truly uncanny how it very well could have been.There is a literary gap of eighteen years when Jesus was 12 until 30 and has come to be known as "the lost years".We know that Jesus's father had taken him to a religious festival in Jerusalem, where he then went missing , only to be found a few days later discussing theology and scripture with known priests.  It was at this point in time where literature left off and where the author, Derek Miller pretty much picks up and continues.In Divinity, the Lost Years of Jesus Christ, Joshua's father Joseph  knew his "son's burden will be great, but the world needed him".  This was what Joseph had muttered while he  securely enclosed "the book" inside the chest that had been kept from Joshua for thirteen years.  This chest and its contents would soon be turned over to Joshua, on his thirteenth birthday and the day of his bar mitzvah.It must be kept in mind that this book is a work of fiction and no disrespect is intended nor is to be taken.  This book is so very well written and can certainly satisfy the inner longing in terms of what did happen during those "lost years".  For instance, whereas the literature has no full accounting of Joseph's death, this is another area where the author has filled in those blanks in a way that is believable and the reader can accept.I can't say enough about how this book is such a marvelous work of fiction and so profound that it can, if only in fiction, substitute for the period in time known as "the lost years".  I applaud this author for taking on a feat this great and controversial where very few would even dare to tread.  One truly has to be, not only well read, knowledgeable  and confident, but truly skilled to be capable of tackling the era known as "the lost years".  To that end, this book is truly worth five stars.