Next Year in Jerusalem (eBook)

John Kolchak (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
276 Seiten
Ward Six Press (Verlag)
978-0-9840130-5-0 (ISBN)

Infos

A brutal re-imagining of the Gospel story, Next Year in Jerusalem follows the footsteps of Yeshua Bar-Yosif—an illiterate, epileptic, bastard son of a Roman soldier on his ill-fated life journey through a land racked by terror.  
 
As first century Judea bleeds from the oppression of Roman rule and the violent uprisings against it, Yeshua, tormented by familial guilt for abandoning his mother, eventually forms his own family of travelers who preach for peace and compassion in the face of internecine savagery. Their wanderings lead to encounters with false prophets, assassins, and a rapidly growing movement of extremist rebels whose leader Bar-Abbas’ mission is to expel the Romans and establish an ethnocentric theocracy.  
 
Chance sends both Yeshua and Bar-Abbas to the court of Pontius Pilate—the dipsomaniac Governor obsessed with leaving a name for himself in the scrolls of history—and the outcome of that meeting seals the fate of the world for the next two millennia.  
 
With urgent parallels to contemporary issues of religious war, this book is both a lament and a warning. It is also a story about the passage of time, the nature of memory, and of mankind’s inherent yearning for life everlasting. 
 
Against this background of violence emerge three figures whose fates collide to change history forever: Pontius Pilate, the dipsomaniac governor of the territory engulfed in endless uprisings; Yeshua Bar-Yosif, an illiterate, epileptic, carpenter’s son and reluctant leader of a new religious movement; and Yeshua Bar-Abbas, the ruthless leader of the “Sicarii” – violent insurgents intent on ridding Judea of the occupying Roman army through terror and self-sacrifice. 
 
With prescient historical parallels to the endless wars and conflicts that continue to plague the same part of the world today, this story is both a lament and a warning. 
 
It is also a book about the passage of time, the nature of memory, and of mankind’s inherent yearning for life everlasting.

Inhalt

1 / THE BIRTH
Hamsin
The King of the World
Conception
Invasion
Annunciation
The Imp
Revelation
Eyeless in Caesaria2 / THE LIFE
Quo Vadis?
The Knife
Dreamer of the Day
The Snot Blue Sea
The Cave
The Prophet
The Aqueduct
The Travels
Fishers of Men
The Problems with Architecture
The Teachings of Yeshua
The Cow
All the Pretty Little Corpses
The Enemy of My Enemy
The Lost Sheep
Breaking Bricks and Hands
A Horseman Bearing a Fig Tree
The Beast
Stardust
The Fall of Man3 / THE DEATH
Un Bel Di
Shackles and Songs
Judgment Day
Nearer My God to Thee4 / THE GHOST
Next Year in Jerusalem
The Star of Wormwood
Evangelium

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.1.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Schlagworte: Christianity • Historical Jesus • Isis • Islam • Jesus • mary magdalene • Middle East • Religion • Religious War • terrorism
• ISBN-10: 0-9840130-5-9 / 0984013059
• ISBN-13: 978-0-9840130-5-0 / 9780984013050