I suspect this Blog will become more and more interesting as The Jesus Dynasty goes into more and more languages and draws responses from around the world, upon which I am sure I will want to comment.

I just heard this week from the editor of the Portuguese magazine SABATO, which I am told is the TIME magazine of Portugal. They want to do a feature story on the book. The Jesus Dynasty was actually published in Portuguese in April (in Europe, the Brazilian is yet to come) and I had helped the translator along with way with many difficult points of interpretation from one culture to another–quite a fascinating subject in itself.

I also was able to view on DVD the German program Aspekte that aired July 14th on nationwide TV all over Europe, in fact friends of mine in Vienna watched it live. Since German is probably my best spoken language I was able to follow it easily and I felt the editor did an absolutely superb job in presenting a fair and balanced treatment of the book. A second segment is due to air the same week the book is released in German in late September with a national ad campaign that will rival what we had here in the US. It is being published by Bertlesmann, a name almost unknown to Americans. Bertlesmann is a media giant and among other things owns Random House, the world’s largest general interest trade publisher. I received a copy of the Fall book catalogue and Die Jesus Dynastie is given a lovely two page spread and it comes up first on their Web site. If any of you want to order a copy of the German edition is you can easily get it via Amazon’s German site.
More to come…

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