![]() ![]() ![]() But it is later, at the foot of a cross on a hill in Jerusalem, that he fulfills his true destiny. Before the cheering multitudes at the Roman Circus in Antioch, he achieves his revenge and glory. While his mother and sister are imprisoned in a leper colony, Ben-Hur heroically escapes to challenge Massala's domination in a chariot race. The saga of Judah Ben-Hur's spiritual journey from slavery to vengeance to redemption is both a vivid historical adventure and a powerful story of one man's religious awakening.īorn the son of a Jewish nobleman, Ben-Hur is condemned to a life of slavery when his former friend wrongly accuses him of attempting to kill a Roman official. ![]() One of the most popular American novels of all time, Ben-Hur vividly reimagines the oppressive Roman occupation of ancient Palestine and the rise of Christianity. A Jewish prince seeks to find his family and revenge himself upon his childhood friend who had him wrongly imprisoned. ![]()
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