The prince of the house of David: Or, Three years in the Holy City
by J. H. Ingraham
Category: Fiction

A wonderfully detailed historical novel -- the story of Christ's three years of ministry on earth told by a young Hebrew girl in the form of letters to her father. During her three years in the Holy City, Adina, a Jewess of Alexandria, supposed to be sojourning in Jerusalem in the days of Herod, writes to her father, a wealthy Jew in Egypt. She writes of the events of interest and especially giving a minute by minute narrative of the events of the life of Jesus, whom she saw daily -- from his baptism in Jordan to his crucifixion on Calvary. She keeps her father advised of exciting and marvelous events occurring around her.