Phil Kniss

Spying on Jesus

Fiction

“By choosing an imaginary character—Caleb the scribe—as first-person narrator, Ryan Ahlgrim achieves what countless other authors have not. He remains true to both to the person, and to the highly conflicted religious and political context, of Jesus of Nazareth that we see in the Gospels. Watching Caleb’s faith in Jesus grow from a deeply skeptical ‘watcher’ of Jesus to a full-on disciple is an inspirational example from which we have something to learn. This is not only good biblical interpretation. It is a well-crafted narrative that’s hard to put down.”