The second volume Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week: From the Entrance Into Jerusalem To The Resurrection <\/a>came out in March 2011, and I read it during Lent last year.<\/p>\n As the subtitle indicates, Benedict takes you from Holy Week through the Resurrection, along with an Epilogue regarding the Ascension and the coming return(!) of Jesus.<\/p>\n The books are not light reading – you have to engage the text. I found that 8-12 pages at a time was about right\/all I could handle. But with 40 days, it's quite doable.<\/p>\n Pope Benedict says he is not writing doctrinally or dogmatically, but giving his opinion ofthe biblical texts – and he is a great scholar.<\/p>\n For a shorter taste of Pope Benedict, Behold the Pierced One<\/a>, a book of four essays (128 pages), is wonderful. It was first published in 1986 – I believe they were actually talks he gave – and I've read it twice. Hit the link for the two reviews on Amazon. It costs less than ten dollars and is available on Kindle for $8.99 (I just bought it for my Kindle Fire; guess I'll be reading it a third time… I could do worse!).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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