Ěnyone who likes a good Hollywood insider story with a sleazy but charming male protagonist.People who like action-packed war and political stories.Ěnyone who enjoys Roman history and/or conjectural history.Jewish people who would like to gain a more ground-level appreciation of the Diaspora.It is estimated that at least 41% of the population of the United States belongs to this group. Ĝhristians who believe in Armageddon and are interested in the destruction/resurrection of the Second Temple will want to read this.It does touch religious subjects but only within the larger framework of 1st Century socio-political events. Before proceeding, however, let me assure you again that this is not a religious book.

Let me tell you instead who will enjoy this fiction. The exact plot lines are really too complex to encapsulate within a single page. The main difference is my greater fidelity to the primary historical references left by Josephus himself. In this regard it might be compared to the devices utilized by the author Dan Brown where there is an antagonist from the current century tracking the life of the main protagonist writing in the 1st Century.

The book strictly follows the historical documentation and fictionalizes when the historical record is silent. Josephus was an actual historian, a stubborn survivor, a tangible actor in the imperial machinations of the time and a very complex individual who suffered horrible experiences but lived to a ripe old age and survived all of his tormentors (with conjecture that he cut some of their throats).

What they discover in that tomb sets into motion a train of events and intrigue spanning a timeline from the 1st Century AD to the 21st Century. Fleeing the collapsing South immediately after the American Civil War, two sailors from the Confederate Navy believe they have avoided a hangman’s noose by sailing to Alexandria, Egypt - where, to escape the blistering summer heat, they hole up in the warren of catacombs beneath the city, eventually to discover the bricked-up grave of the infamous 1st Century historian Titus Flavius Josephus.

#TrueMessiahs by J.L. Gates