The Misconceived Conception of a Baby Named Jesus

<p><strong>Awarded First Place in the 2024 Chanticleer International Book Awards (CIBA) in the Category of Humor & Satire</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Burkland packs immense humor and irony into his prose...  </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The BookLife Prize </strong></p><p>A fun pithy sendup of one of the best-known origin stories. <strong><em>-Kirkus Reviews</em></strong></p><p>...a sharp shrewd witty and occasionally wacky alternate-universe Bible... -<strong>Greg Thompson writer-producer</strong></p><p>This book merits book-club discussion and argument. <strong>-Glenn R. Miller author </strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>On a warm Galilean night Mary and Joseph get to know each other (in the biblical sense) in a secluded garden in Nazareth. Nine months later Mary's pious mother seeing that her young unwed daughter is pregnant enlists the help of a pompous high priest to characterize the pregnancy as divine of God's seed. When Mary refuses to go along with her mother's scheme she and Joseph enter a battle with her parents over every aspect of the birth and the fate of their baby.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>As word of a miraculous virgin birth spreads through Bethlehem factions form and allegiances shift among unscrupulous shepherds dubious Wise Men an elderly innkeeper an earnest but malodorous peasant and an aging cat with a penchant for prophecy-all trying to answer the crucial question: Is the baby named Jesus truly the Son of God or merely a mortal born of earthly parents?</span></p>