Robert F. Bradley

The Centurion's Manuscript (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a fictionalized treatment of the Gospel. A well-preserved manuscript is discovered, dating from the late first century A.D. It is written in the common Greek language of the eastern Roman provinces and purports to be an account of the life and acts of one Jeshua, written by a Roman centurion whose servant he had healed. This Jeshua was an itinerant Jewish preacher from the time of the Emperors Augustus and Tiberius. After introductory statements by the archeologist, by a friend to whom he had entrusted the manuscript and by an expert on ancient manuscripts, there follows the legionary's own preface. He gives a brief biography of himself and his family origins at Rome and his career as a soldier, first in Gaul and then in Syria and Palenstine as an officer of the X Legion, Fretensis.

What follows is a synthesis of the four canonical gospels, combined into a single narrative, interspersed with copious questioning, analysis and commentary by the ancient writer. Deeply impressed by the healing of a beloved young servant, after retiring with the rank of military tribune he devoted the rest of his life to interviewing those who had known Jeshua and gathering their written accounts of this life and mission. His Roman viewpoint and military experience are antithetical to Jeshua's teaching, yet he has an undeniable attraction to that teaching. The beloved servant, once a slave, has been manumitted and serves as an amanuensis to the writer. Their joint effort has produced thje manuscript in question.

In the end the legionary admits the power and cogency of Jeshua's message and reluctantly accepts its meaning for himself. His servant, Demetrios, ends the manuscript with his own confession of belief, for, as he says, he had no doubt about Jeshua ever since the day he was healed of a virulent fever at the age of 14.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Trafford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781412208345
• Artikelnr.: 56169713

Autorenporträt

One of that vanishing breed, the 16,000,000 Anericans who served in World War II, the present author is a retired secondary school teacher. Born in Minneapolis, he worked as a seasonal US Park Service ranger for five years before starting to teach. The current work is the result of many years labor, first in collating the four gospel accounts into a single narrative, then in imagining the reaction of a Roman officer to his brief encounter with Jeshua. In the years following that encounter, he must have ruminated deeply on its meaning.

Married, with no offspring, the author hopes that the reader will also be inspired to ruminate on the tale told here, as he did, and come to understand that the mysterious Jewish preacher whose life was indeed brief, carried a message of profound meaning for all.