Emphasis Preaching Journal

Ben Friedman, a Jewish businessman, scholar and participant in Jewish-Christian dialogues, has written an intriguing novel about the witness of the apostles in The Anguish of Father Rafti. Father Rafti is a young Roman Catholic priest who is judged by a civil count to be guilty in the death of a Jewish boy, because he had unwittingly incited young boys to hatred of Jews by his telling of the crucifixion story.