<P> TIME magazine included the novel in its "All - TIME 100 Novels" (best English - language novels from 1923 to 2005). In 2003, the novel was listed at number 9 on the BBC's survey The Big Read . It has also been published in 47 foreign languages . </P> <P> Lewis wrote that "The Narnian books are not as much allegory as supposal . Suppose there were a Narnian world and it, like ours, needed redemption . What kind of incarnation and Passion might Christ be supposed to undergo there?" </P> <P> The main story is an allegory of Christ's crucifixion: Aslan sacrifices himself for Edmund, a traitor who may deserve death, in the same way that Christians believe Jesus sacrificed himself for sinners . Aslan is killed on the Stone Table, symbolizing Mosaic Law, which breaks when he is resurrected, symbolizing the replacement of the strict justice of Old Testament law with redeeming grace and forgiveness granted on the basis of substitutional atonement, according to Christian theology . As with the Christian Passion, it is women (Susan and Lucy) who tend Aslan's body after he dies and are the first to see him after his resurrection . The significance of the death contains elements of both the ransom theory of atonement and the satisfaction theory: Aslan suffers Edmund's penalty (satisfaction), and buys him back from the White Witch, who was entitled to him by reason of his treachery (ransom). In Christian belief, Christ is associated with the Biblical "Lion of Judah" of Revelation 5: 5 . </P> <P> Professor Kirke is based on W.T. Kirkpatrick, who tutored a 16 - year - old Lewis . "Kirk," as he was sometimes called, taught the young Lewis much about thinking and communicating clearly, skills that would be invaluable to him later . </P>

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