Word: decapolitan
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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Like all of Graves's historical novels, this one is told through a contemporary or nearly contemporary mouthpiece. The mouthpiece in King Jesus is one "Agabus the Decapolitan," writing at Alexandria near the end of the 1st Century A.D. Agabus-Graves's information on religious and political matters in ancient Palestine greatly exceeds anything the 20th Century possesses. He loses no time in flatly telling the 20th Century reader a number of things he never heard before...