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The Disciple Scroll
As the Babylonian empire threatened to conquer ancient Jerusalem, the Hebrew prophet Jeremiah exhorted and beseeched it's people to follow their moral mission. His scribe, Baruch, who recorded Jeremiah's luminous visions, felt overshadowed by the prophet’s spiritual power.
Into a scroll written for his grandson, fifty years after Jeremiah’s death, Baruch unburdens his heart about his entangled ties with the prophet, recalling a vanished world of teeming Jerusalem alleys and markets, the Temple’s splendor, the intrigue of priests, the treachery of nobles, brutal battles, desert revelation, wrenching exile and unexpected generosity and love. And he must choose, between loyalty to Jeremiah the man, and the words of Jeremiah the prophet.
Into a scroll written for his grandson, fifty years after Jeremiah’s death, Baruch unburdens his heart about his entangled ties with the prophet, recalling a vanished world of teeming Jerusalem alleys and markets, the Temple’s splendor, the intrigue of priests, the treachery of nobles, brutal battles, desert revelation, wrenching exile and unexpected generosity and love. And he must choose, between loyalty to Jeremiah the man, and the words of Jeremiah the prophet.
- GenresHistorical Fiction
312 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 20, 2013
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January 9, 2022
spiritual fiction
This book is an incredible read for the hungry heart! I enjoyed each part. My heart raced and my soul danced.
This book is an incredible read for the hungry heart! I enjoyed each part. My heart raced and my soul danced.
September 18, 2013
I'm not a fiction reader, so my review will be short (and disappointing to many).
When I do read fiction, I love to read historical fiction. Nothing helps me ignite the imagination and enable me to experience the world of history that I love so much. This book, a walk through the life of Baruch, the famous scribe of the prophet Jeremiah, allowed me to really experience the life of a ancient prophet. The book put words and faces and names and stories to something that had previously been simply academic.
I would also imagine that a work of fiction is supposed to be entertaining, which this book was. It wasn't a "loud" or a fast-paced book, but it was a story that kept drawing me deeper into it — something I appreciate in a fictional read.
When I do read fiction, I love to read historical fiction. Nothing helps me ignite the imagination and enable me to experience the world of history that I love so much. This book, a walk through the life of Baruch, the famous scribe of the prophet Jeremiah, allowed me to really experience the life of a ancient prophet. The book put words and faces and names and stories to something that had previously been simply academic.
I would also imagine that a work of fiction is supposed to be entertaining, which this book was. It wasn't a "loud" or a fast-paced book, but it was a story that kept drawing me deeper into it — something I appreciate in a fictional read.
July 8, 2013
couldn't put down after chapter 15. Made me cry.
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