Author : Frederick Ramsay
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1615953353
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)
Book Synopsis The Eighth Veil by : Frederick Ramsay
Download or read book The Eighth Veil written by Frederick Ramsay and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 28 CE, the time of the feast of Tabernacles. A servant girl is found in the baths of the palace of King Herod Antipas, her throat cut. Jerusalem is buzzing over the brutal death of a prophet, John, known familiarly as the Baptizer, and Prefect Pontius Pilate wants no more trouble. So he coerces Gamaliel, the chief rabbi and head of the Sanhedrin, into investigating the girl's death. Gamaliel is a Talmudic scholar, not a sleuth. But as he learns more of the dead girl's background and that of some key suspects, he begins to fit the evidence together. The entwined histories of Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Herod the Great, Anthony, and Augustus Caesar suddenly gain relevance to affairs in Jerusalem. And all the while, an itinerant rabbi from Nazareth with his ragged band of enthusiasts and his habit of annoying Caiaphas, the High Priest, moves enigmatically in the background....