" Majesty, Lion of Judah "
| The Greatest Love Story |
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| ~ ever told out of context |
~ An epic exploration of
Messianic expectation in Ancient Israel
~ Growing up Jewish with the LORD as a loving older
Brother
~ A Soldier's view of the
Passion of the Christ
" The Price of a Dream Is a Piece of Your
Soul "
~ The Synoptic GospelAccount from the
perspective of Jesus of Nazareth
“ I waited
all my lifetime to see it, then in my final months, I finally had to write the book I sought…Yeshu Hannosri,
from a Jewish Woman’s perspective. Every person has a story, even the vulgar and the profane, and it was my sincerest
wish to incorporate the realistic story of Jesus of Nazareth into the Greco-Roman and Jewish cultures of the time, as it happened
on a day-today basis, in the same terms as He chose to reveal Himself. To contrast the simple faith of Hilkiah the shepherd
youth who pledged his life in service to the newborn King of Israel that fateful night in Bethlehem and thirteen-year-old
Ahava, named ‘Beloved’ by her old father as Joseph neared the end of his life; a young Jewish maid overlooked
by her gender and gentle nature as she comes of age in her widowed mother’s busy house under the fond indulgence of
four older brothers, with that of the expectations of Pontius Pilate and the Jewish Establishment well entrenched under Roman
authority who were fearful and outraged when challenged by the teachings and acceptance of the gentle Carpenter from Nazareth
thirty years later. With so much to lose if He proved as outspoken to the Romans, as He was to them. To
the everyday folk where I would have found myself. A world of scholars and scoundrels, deep, watchful thinkers and souls too
busy with the needs of survival to look unless it thundered when they’d put out their wash to dry, never caring if ought
else rested behind the overcast sky.
For those who haven’t the time to move slowly across the months required to ponder a seventeen hundred page novel,
there are three abbreviated forms of the same novel: Man, Woman, and Infinity. “A Man called Isaac “, a soldier’s
view of the Passion of the Christ, “Haven of Angels”, the story of growing up with the Lord as a loving older
brother only to have your simple and uneducated faith challenged by the extremes of attitudes toward His claim to be the long
awaited Jewish Messiah, and lastly, “The Promise of the Father”, as Machba`nel ben Abishalom and Ahava, the younger
daughter of Joseph and Mary share in the formation of the early Jewish Church in Jerusalem.
Every person had to make the same decision required of us today…Was Jesus of Nazareth the Son
of the living GOD? The promised Jewish Redeemer and King? TheSavior and Lord of all mankind who died that
we might live. Who was he? What was he? What did He say about Himself? And finally, my Friend, that is what you have to decide~Who
is He? Your Savior or your Judge? Choose well, eternity rests on your decision. “
A.R. Koheen
Spokane,
Washington
United States of America
