Cliff Keller

The Lion or the Lamb, Samson, Ruth and Salvation (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Padi, the son of a Philistine warrior, discovers at an early age that he does not belong among his violent people. Not only has his mild nature ruined his standing among his clan, but his choice of best friend, a wild native boy named Samson, has set him completely apart. Though no Philistine would harm Padi for fear of Samson, Padi abandons his home and moves to the Sorek Valley where he accepts Samson's abandoned bride as a gift from her angry father, thus becoming witness to a succession of Samson's destructive miracles.
Disillusioned by continuing violence in the valley, Padi deserts his faithless bride and heads to the hills, struggling until he stumbles into the village of Bethlehem exhausted and near death. There, despite his pagan blood, he is nursed back to health by relatives of Elimelech, husband of Naomi, who is soon to abandon Judah for Moab. After a deceptive introduction to the tradition of circumcision, Padi marries and goes to work in the barley fields for his brother-in-law, Boaz.
Happily married, father of three and in love with his newfound home, Padi's life should be complete. But, as witness to continuing violence, he is plagued by a question; What exactly is the thing called salvation which his new people so keenly crave? He learns the answer only after Naomi returns to Bethlehem with her Moabite daughter, Ruth, and Mighty Samson is captured and taken in chains to the Philistine temple at Gaza.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cliff Keller
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780463414712
• Artikelnr.: 53904032

Autorenporträt

Cliff Keller was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. After multiple migrations between Florida and Wisconsin, Cliff attended Florida State University to pursue a degree in Engineering Science, paying his way by working as an engineering coop student for NASA at Cape Canaveral. Somehow aware of Cliff's progress, President Richard Nixon designed to send Cliff to the war in Vietnam by ending the educational draft deferment. By graduating, then receiving an occupational deferment while working for then defense contractor, Texas Instruments, in Dallas, Cliff avoided conscription and bested the president, who soon afterward became distracted by the Watergate scandal and lost interest in Cliff's status.
After eight years in Dallas (and earning a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering from Southern Methodist University), Cliff spent the next 18 years in Florida in the construction business before selling the company to devote more time to writing.
Cliff and his wife, Marcia, now live in Jerusalem, Israel, having made Aliyah in 2011, where they are slowly improving at speaking Hebrew and loving their time in the land.