As a gift he also receives a large-screen television, on which he picks up the programs of the future. In the year 96 of the Common Era, the bishop of Ephesus, Timothy, is visited in a dream by his ancient teacher Saint Paul, who foretells him that he has been chosen by the men of the future to write the story of Jesus after the other gospels of the New Testament have been deleted from existence by a mysterious hacker. The book was published by Random House in 1992. In Vidal's memoir, Point to Point Navigation, he says that the book was originally titled Live from Golgotha and that the subtitle, "The Gospel According to Gore Vidal", was added by the book cover's designer without Vidal's permission. The book is Vidal's twenty-second novel and a fifth novel focused on the topic of religion, the others being Messiah (1954), Julian (1964), Kalki (1978), and Creation (1981), and the second of Vidal's novels that fit in the fifth gospel genre. Christopher Hitchens described the book as a "masterpiece of blasphemous vulgarity". John Rechy reviewing the novel for the Los Angeles Times wrote that "If God exists and Jesus is His son, then Gore Vidal is going to hell". The author has been called a "blasphemer" for portraying " Saint Paul as a huckster and pederast and Jesus a buffoon". The title of the novel alludes to the fact that the author "made sport of the notion of television coverage of the Crucifixion, as the kind of thing that would happen only in contemporary America". Told from the perspective of Saint Timothy as he travels with Saint Paul, the 1992 novel's narrative shifts in time as Timothy and Paul combat a mysterious hacker from the future who is deleting all traces of Christianity. But is Timothy's text really Hacker-proof? And how will he deal with the truth about Jesus' eating disorder? Above all, will he get the anchor slot for the Big Show at Golgotha without representation by a major agency, like CAA 1,896 years in the future? Tune in.Live from Golgotha is a novel by Gore Vidal, an irreverent spoof of the New Testament.
Meanwhile, thanks to a breakthrough in computer software, an NBC crew is racing into the past to capture-live from the suburb of Golgotha-the Crucifixion, for a TV special guaranteed to boost the network's ratings in the fall sweeps.Īs a stream of visitors from twentieth-century America channel in to the first-century Holy Land-Mary Baker Eddy, Shirley MacLaine, Oral Roberts and family-Timothy struggles to complete his story. 96, and Timothy is under terrific pressure to record his version of the Sacred Story, since, far in the future, a cyberpunk (the Hacker) has been systematically destroying the tapes that describe the Good News, and Timothy's Gospel is the only one immune to the Hacker's deadly virus. Timothy) is in his study in Thessalonika, where he is bishop of Macedonia.
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