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You will love this book if you enjoy biblical storytelling, letters and diaries, and vivid scenes of ancient Jerusalem. It suits readers who like familiar events seen through a warm, close witness.
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What would it be like to stand in Jerusalem as a prophet from the wilderness began to shake the city? This book puts you in that scene. It is told by Adina, a young Jewish woman from Alexandria, who writes to her father in Egypt.
The Prince of the House of David was written by J. H. Ingraham, an American author who died in 1860. It is a series of thirty-nine letters. Adina lodges with her uncle Amos, a priest, and reports all she sees. You get the Gospel story through one witness, with the streets, courts and families of the holy city filled in around it.
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- 1A young woman finds a Temple losing its spiritFree
- 2A Roman rescuer and a prophet at the Jordan
- 3Two young men question the prophet by moonlight
- 4The house at Bethany and the voice at the river
- 5Learned men weigh the prophecies and demand proof
- 6Wonders and rumors gather round the carpenter's son
- 7The Temple cleared and a ruler comes by night
- 8Death and mourning in Nain and Bethany
- 9A kingdom that does not look like a throne
- 10Letters, witnesses and a city of divided hearts
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A young woman finds a Temple losing its spirit
Adina arrives in Jerusalem from Alexandria after a long road through Gaza. She writes at once to her father, as she promised. Her letters make up the whole book, and they carry a daughter's love and a sharp eye.
She stays with Amos, a Levite and a priest. Her first visit to the Temple startles her. The outer court is packed with sellers of doves, lambs and oxen, and the noise drowns out prayer. At dawn a thousand silver trumpets wake the city. Then Roman bugles cut across the evening rite, and Adina weeps.
Amos admits that no prophet has spoken for nearly three hundred years, and many priests have grown corrupt. The splendor, he says, hides decay within. Adina reads Malachi and his promise of a messenger. Show without spirit is empty, and her first lesson is to look beneath the gold.
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Questions about El Príncipe de la Casa de David
What is The Prince of the House of David about?
It is a novel in thirty-nine letters from Adina, a young Jewish woman from Alexandria who lives in Jerusalem. She tells her father what she sees of John the Baptist and Jesus of Nazareth, from the Jordan baptism to forty days after the Resurrection.
Who is Adina in The Prince of the House of David?
Adina is the fictional letter-writer, a young woman from Alexandria staying with her uncle Amos, a priest. She writes to her father in Egypt with warmth and curiosity, and her growing faith gives the book its steady voice.
Is The Prince of the House of David a true story?
It is a work of fiction by J. H. Ingraham, who died in 1860. The main events follow the Gospel accounts, while Adina, her family, and many scenes and details are the author's own creation to bring the setting to life.
Who are the main characters in the book?
Besides Adina, the cast includes her uncle Amos, her cousin Mary, the scribe Lazarus and his sisters Martha and Mary, the Roman officer Aemilius, the Pharisee Nicodemus, the priests Annas and Caiaphas, and Pilate. Jesus and John the Baptist appear through her eyes.
Is The Prince of the House of David easy to read?
Its letter form makes it approachable. The letters combine scenes, reports and conversations, and Adina's warm, direct voice carries the reader from the Temple trumpets to the Jordan and Bethany with plenty of dialogue.
Cite this edition
Ingraham, Joseph Holt. The Prince of the House of David. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-prince-of-the-house-of-david.
Ingraham, J. H. (2026). The Prince of the house of David. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-prince-of-the-house-of-david (Original work published 1855)
Ingraham, Joseph Holt. The Prince of the House of David. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-prince-of-the-house-of-david.
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