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SPIRITUALITY, METAPHYSICS, PHILOSOPHY, ANCIENT MYTHS
IN FICTION AND IN FACT |
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YESHUA a novel
by STAN I.S. LAW
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A PERSONAL MEMOIR
OF THE MISSING YEARS OF JESUS
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ISBN 978-0-9731872-3-6 |
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Novel., 234 pages |
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$22.95 IP $15.00 |
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I have just finished reading Yeshua, The
Missing Years of Jesus. It was one of the most enjoyable
reads I have had this year. I congratulate you. The book is not
only well written, but it is thought provoking. I particularly
enjoyed the many historical references and the notes on Middle
East philosophy.
Harvie D Walford, B.C
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...after reading excerpts (from his latest book) . . . not one
copy of Yeshua was left in my store. What a lovely event for
Queen Bee Books....
Mickey Smeele, Queen Bee Books,
Port Alberni B.C.
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Prologue
(excerpt) |
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The Morning
of the First Day (part) |
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I'd missed
him by a day. A single
day. I'll never forgive myself. If it hadn't been for that stupid
deal when my father couldn't bear to lose a damn rupee, I would
have seen him again. There I was, riding like a maniac. All for
nothing.
More than three years had
passed since I last saw him. I missed him from the day that we
parted company. In Egypt. He was the closest friend I ever had.
As a matter of fact, considering the time I spend traveling,
he was virtually my only friend. And now he's gone. Dead. They
tell me the Romans executed him. Like a common criminal. Why
? Yeshûa wouldn't steal a crust of bread. He wouldn't hurt
a fly. Not the Yeshûa I knew. Could it really be true?
They've directed me to this
broken down hovel. A house, a shack really, on the back-streets
of Jerusalem. Mud bricks and a straw roof. The headquarters of
his followers. I just don't believe it. I can't. He was He wouldn't
let them Yeshûa where are you Yeshûa?
Don't listen to me. I am in
a state of shock. Wouldn't you be? You would, had you known him
as I did. If you knew him at all. Even if you had just met him.
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Chapter 2 (excerpt) |
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The Desert |
| I forget where or when the following event
took place, but it couldn't have been more than a few weeks,
months at most, after we first left Jerusalem. We followed the
main road to Shechem, then took the right fork, bearing northeast
towards Scythopolis, and finally crossed Jordan just south of
Lake Chinnereth to take the mountain road to Damascus. It wasn't
the best road, but my father deemed it the safest. There were
too many riffraff in the lower, richer grounds, where bandits
could hide in the thick bush that covered most of the ground.
The desert was safer. It was here, in the vast expanse of rocks
and sand that, for the first time, Yeshûa raised a tiny
edge of the veil that obfuscated from me, and I should well imagine
from the rest of the world, his most secret thoughts. |
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(click on cover)
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