Il Dio dei nostri padri. Il grande romanzo della Bibbia

Until the time of our grandparents, men were convinced that they lived under the eye of God, and his existence was as certain as that of the rising and setting sun. Today we have stopped believing in it, or even thinking about it. And nobody reads the Bible any more. Instead, the Bible is a wonderful book. Which can also be read as a great novel. The autobiography of God. Aldo Cazzullo does with the Bible what he did with Dante’s Inferno: he tells us the story, in a clear and comprehensible way for everyone, with continuous references to current events, to our lives, passing through the events of history and the masterpieces of art. The creation, Adam and Eve, the expulsion from Eden, Cain and Abel, Noah and the flood. The story of Jacob who wrestled with God and Joseph who revealed Pharaoh’s dreams. Moses, the plagues of Egypt, the crossing of the Red Sea, the Ten Commandments. And then the conquest of the promised land, from Joshua expelling Jericho to David cutting off Goliath’s head, from Samson, the strong hero but betrayed by his love, to Solomon raising the temple. Cazzullo evokes stories of millenary fascination. And he recounts the great women of the Bible from Judith to Esther; the angel who saves Tobiah and the devil who torments Job; the love of the Canticle of Canticles and the disillusionment of Ecclesiastes (“all is vanity”). Up to the great hope of the advent of a messiah who comes to save mankind and raise us to eternal life, who for Christians is Jesus.