Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
- Book 1, Part 1
- Book 1, Part 2
- Book 1, Part 3
- Book 1, Part 4
- Book 1, Part 5
- Book 1, Part 6
- Book 1, Part 7
- Book 1, Part 8
- Book 1, Part 9
- Book 1, Part 10
- Book 1, Part 11
- Book 1, Part 12
- Book 1, Part 13
- Book 1, Part 14
- Book 2, Part 1
- Book 2, Part 2
- Book 2, Part 3
- Book 2, Part 4
- Book 2, Part 5
- Book 2, Part 6
- Book 2, Part 7
- Book 3, Part 1
- Book 3, Part 2
- Book 3, Part 3
- Book 3, Part 4
- Book 3, Part 5
- Book 3, Part 6
- Book 4, Part 1
- Book 4, Part 2
- Book 4, Part 3
- Book 4, Part 4
- Book 4, Part 5
- Book 4, Part 6
- Book 4, Part 7
- Book 4, Part 8
- Book 4, Part 9
- Book 4, Part 10
- Book 4, Part 11
- Book 4, Part 12
- Book 4, Part 13
- Book 4, Part 14
- Book 4, Part 15
- Book 4, Part 16
- Book 4, Part 17
- Book 5, Part 1
- Book 5, Part 2
- Book 5, Part 3
- Book 5, Part 4
- Book 5, Part 5
- Book 5, Part 6
- Book 5, Part 7
- Book 5, Part 8
- Book 5, Part 9
- Book 5, Part 10
- Book 5, Part 11
- Book 5, Part 12
- Book 5, Part 13
- Book 5, Part 14
- Book 5, Part 15
- Book 5, Part 16
- Book 6, Part 1
- Book 6, Part 2
- Book 6, Part 3
- Book 6, Part 4
- Book 6, Part 5
- Book 6, Part 6
- Book 7, Part 1
- Book 7, Part 2
- Book 7, Part 3
- Book 7, Part 4
- Book 7, Part 5
- Book 8, Part 1
- Book 8, Part 2
- Book 8, Part 3
- Book 8, Part 4
- Book 8, Part 5
- Book 8, Part 6
- Book 8, Part 7
- Book 8, Part 8
- Book 8, Part 9
- Book 8, Part 10
With the help of a faithful family retainer and a generous Arab sheik, Ben-Hur is enabled to take part in a widely touted chariot race, where one of the other charioteers is the boyhood friend who connived to punish him for the accident and split his estate. That rival is crippled, financially and bodily, in a no-holds-barred race (memorable from the 1959 movie with Charlton Heston).
Ben-Hur turns his attention to the prophesied King of the Jews, when through the sheik he meets Balthasar, one of the Three Wise Men, and hears of the child born years ago. Will Ben-Hur be the general who brings victories to the King, and finally liberates Israel from the oppressive Roman yoke? In his quest for the answer, Ben-Hur seeks out the Nazarene, now rumored to be The Messiah.
THAT hero needs no introduction.
Curious about the lack of kingly trappings and ambitions about this man, Ben-Hur begins to suspect that his kingdom is not of this world. And with him, we receive a gut-wrenching eye-witness view of Jesus’ arrest, humiliation, and crucifixion.
