Anne Rice’s Out of Egypt Is Not About a Vampire Christ

And it isn’t even blasphemous, despite what I was told

Roberts, Arthur, ed, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons

I just finished reading Anne Rice’s novel Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt and I have a lot of thoughts.

Rice’s scholarship is excellent. The author’s note at the end of the book details the years of study and hundreds of books she read in order to write…