Miriam Feinberg Vamosh

The Scroll (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The Scroll begins with the story of Miriam, a young Jewish woman who survived the last terrible moments at the killing grounds of Masada, and with only the scroll of her divorce and a few coins.

After watching her mother die at Roman hands, she shepherds the last surviving children through the desert to the village of Tekoa. There, the inhabitants, who knew nothing but suffering from the uprising, reject her and the extremism they believe she represents. She leaves the children and heads for Jerusalem, where she is captured by the city's merciless Roman overlords and cast into the arena. But at the last moment she is ransomed, in keeping with Jewish custom, by Jacobides, a wealthy Alexandrian Jew. Hoping to find her first husband Joseph, she agrees to accompany Jacobides to Alexandria. There, Jacobides' son Menahem falls in love with Miriam. Seeing her as the opportunity to do exactly the opposite of what his father would have wished for him, the young man urges Miriam to allow him to accompany her back to her home in Judea. Losing hope of finding Joseph, Miriam marries Menahem and for 20 years, settles for nothing more than to forget all she had been through. But when their son Gabriel murders a Roman soldier and has to flee, Miriam's old life comes back to haunt her.

Samuel, one of the children Miriam had left behind at Tekoa, finds her dying among Jerusalem's ruins He takes the scroll of her divorce, which she has so carefully kept all through the years as the only reminder of her past life. Samuel loves the rebel cause, and resolves to use Miriam's divorce document to spark a new rebellion against Rome. He seeks out Gabriel's daughter Rebecca who like her grandfather Menahem rejects her privileged position for a dangerous fascination with the rebel life. She is the perfect "sleeper agent."

Rebecca is sent to the oasis city of Ein Gedi, where she lives a quiet life, until the day the signal comes for her to act. The townspeople take shelter in nearby caves, believing Jewish freedom-fighters will come to their rescue. But, but in the end, everyone dies of starvation. Everyone, that is, but the baby girl to whom Rebecca gave birth in the cave. The baby is rescued by a 14-year-old girl named Judith. Pledging to see the baby live, she climbs up from the Dead Sea, out of the abyss, to the high mountains and a new life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Miriam Feinberg Vamosh
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789655556186
• Artikelnr.: 54188662

Autorenporträt

Miriam Feinberg Vamosh is the author of several informative, illustrated books about ancient times in the Holy Land. But it is her novel, The Scroll, a multi-generational historical novel about the survivors of Masada, which perhaps best reveals who Miriam is. That is because it delves into the issues that bedevil her and the people closest to her, all of whom are trying to make sense of the complexities of their country, Israel, its history, people, and the choices their leaders make. She is also the author of Teach it to Your Children: How Kids Lived in Bible Days (Avi Media), each of whose 12 chapters bring alive different aspects of Bible as seen through children's eyes, and contains an original short story, a "did you know" section and crafts. She also wrote Daily Life at the Time of Jesus, Food at the Time of the Bible, Women at the Time of the Bible, Reflections of God's Holy Land: a Personal Journey Through Israel (with Eva Marie Everson) and hundreds of articles about Israel's history, archaeology and tour sites. Daily Life has been translated into 32 languages, and Reflections of God's Holy Land is especially precious to her and is an award winner. Miriam was born in Trenton, New Jersey, and has lived in Israel since 1970. Her love affair with the Bible and ancient sources, which led to her writing career, deepened over many years as a tour educator -- every visitor who ever asked her a question has earned her gratitude. Miriam's interest in the New Testament began thanks to the abiding respect she learned in her parents' home, and the homes of her older brother and sister, for people of other faiths and cultures, and the tutelage of devoted teachers during a year of high school at what is now the Anglican International School in Jerusalem. Such inspirations encouraged and enabled her to specialize in weaving together Jewish literary sources, traditions and beliefs with the origins of Christianity, and teaching about them on-site throughout Israel. Miriam is also on the editorial staff of the Israeli daily Haaretz. Writing, translating and editing about events that took place millennia ago, together with her work for the news desk of a critical, cutting-edge newspaper is part and parcel of the complexities that for Miriam make life in Israel a never-ending search for meaning. Miriam is married to Arik, is the mother of two wonderful daughters and sons-in-law, and lives near Jerusalem.