Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
2008 Ballantine Books Trade Paperback Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Anne O’Brien Rice
Introduction and Note to Paperback Edition copyright © 2006 by Anne O’Brien Rice
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
BALLANTINE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., in 2005
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The Reading Group Guide contained in the work originally appeared in the Borzoi Reader Online in 2005.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rice, Anne
Christ the Lord : out of Egypt : a novel / by Anne Rice.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-55506-9
1. Jesus Christ—Fiction. 2. Bible. N.T.—History of Biblical events—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3568.1265C48 2005
813′.54—dc22 2005044077
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