![]() ![]() ![]() This edition is unabridged and faithfully reflects the version as originally published in 1880. Nonetheless, the book's attention to historical detail and its glimpse into America at a particular point in time gives modern readers deeper insight into both Christianity and the United States in the 19th century. Typically, the movie isn't as good as the book, but the movie is also an American classic. there resides a full-body statue of General Lew Wallace, Civil War hero and. 20th century readers will recognize Ben Hur more from the 1950's movie, and might not even be aware that it had first been a book. In the National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. However, his extensive research into the Holy Land and the Bible brought him to the conviction that while his own book was a work of fiction, the Good Book was not. ![]() This is ironic, given that when Wallace began writing the book, he was not very religious. The 1880 Ben-Hur was beloved for its faithful representation of the person of Jesus.īen-Hur surpassed the fabulously popular Uncle Tom in the 19th century and was beloved for its attempt to faithfully represent the life and times of Jesus, and the person of Jesus himself. ![]()
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