Fishers of Men

Fishers of Men
By Gerald Lund
Shadow Mountain, 2000. 642 pgs. Fiction

This story focuses on the family of a Galilean merchant. The events in their lives occasionally intersect with the life of Christ, who some view with great admiration and others with anger. The father, David ben Joseph, is a merchant who has given much thought to the prophecies concerning the Messiah. His wife, Deborah, is the niece of Judas of Gamla who led the uprising against the Romans at Masada in 6 A.D. Deborah and her son, Simeon, side with the zealots who seek to vanquish Roman oppression. When Christ begins his ministry the family is divided into two groups: those that believe he teaches great truths for all mankind and those that believe him to be a blasphemer and traitor to the Jewish people.

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