Before the Sermon on the Mount, before the miracles, before the Passion, the Gospels leave a long and mysterious silence: the hidden years of Christ.

The Boyhood of Christ enters that silence with reverence and literary imagination. Written by Lew Wallace, the celebrated author of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ and The Fair God, this work reflects the late nineteenth-century fascination with the human childhood of Jesus: his home, his mother, his learning, his tenderness, and the quiet mystery of divine life passing through ordinary youth.

First published in illustrated form by Harper & Brothers in 1889, this edition preserves the visual character of that original volume in grayscale facsimile, including the original typography, page design, illustrations, captions, and devotional atmosphere.

This volume is ideal for listeners interested in:

• Christian classics and devotional literature
• Lew Wallace and Ben-Hur
• The hidden years of Jesus
• Infancy gospels and apocryphal traditions
• Nineteenth-century religious fiction
• Illustrated Victorian books
• Historical facsimile editions
• Sacred art and literary devotional works

The Boyhood of Christ is not presented as Scripture, nor as an ancient apocryphal gospel, but as a historical and literary devotional work: a window into how one age imagined the mystery of the child Christ.

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