Rihbany grew up in a village in Mount Lebanon before emigrating to America and becoming a minister in Boston. Drawing on the speech, manners and hospitality he knew as a boy, he explains how the Bible’s figures of speech, its feasts, its stories of birth and of the star, and its scenes of filial obedience would have sounded to people of the East.
An illuminating, affectionate book for any reader of the Gospels. Download the free EPUB.