During a military parade, a tile falls from the roof of Judah's house and barely misses the Roman governor.Īlthough Messala knows that they are not guilty, he condemns the Ben-Hur family.
Judah's childhood friend Messala returns home as an ambitious commanding officer of the Roman legions. The story recounts the adventures of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish prince and merchant in Jerusalem in the 1st century. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace published for the first time in 1880.Ĭonsidered "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century", it was the best-selling American novel from the time of its publication, superseding Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852).įollowing release of the 1959 MGM film adaptation of Ben-Hur, which was seen by tens of millions and won 11 Academy Awards in 1960, book sales surpassed Gone with the Wind.
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