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Bill Nelson
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954
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 10:24 am: |   |
A million thanks to Laurel Johnson for her review.I cherish her insight, as always.
Risen
by Richard Alan Nelson
ISBN 1-933016-26-4
158 pages at 13.95 paperback
Behler Publications
22365 El Toro Rd. #135
Lake Forest CA 92630
Richard Alan Nelson earned his spurs in the action-adventure thriller genre. In his third book, he tackles perhaps the most thrilling, mysterious action adventure ever. Yeshua ben Joseph. The Man from Galilee. Jesus of Nazareth. In Risen, Nelson tells the story of Yeshua from before his birth until after his death. Research sources include The Holy Bible, Hermetic writings, Kushan history, The Emerald Tablet, and numerous other historical sources most readers have never heard of, let alone read. What results is the life of Yeshua, presented as a fascinating scenario of what might have been his experience.
Risen begins with the familiar story Christians know by heart, with a young wife pregnant by virgin conception. Powerful Eastern Potentates seek the infant's location to pay him honor because this birth is prophesied through ancient writings. In their dealings with the despotic Herod Antipas, the sages know their lives and those of the child and his parents are at risk.
Young Yeshua is an energetic, intelligent boy with a great curiosity about the world. He lives in Galilee, a beautiful land, the crossroads of world trade. His parents know Yeshua's destiny was preordained, that he must study with masters in foreign lands to gain knowledge. When he reaches the age of mitzvah, they sadly part with their son and see him only on rare visits for many years.
Silas, Son of Light, wise leader of the Essenes of Qumran, is Yeshua's first mentor. From age twelve to twenty-one, the youth studies with the Essenes. During this period, Yeshua's curious mind and inquisitive spirit devour the secrets and mysteries recorded from the dawn of time.
From age twenty-one to twenty-five, Yeshua is mentored by Sanaby, a respected Aryan Sage. He learns of man's distant past by studying cave drawings and history recorded on rock, wood, hide and animal horns. With Sanaby, he learns the beginnings of all matter, even the stars in the night sky. Yeshua's wisdom and understanding grow, along with his personal power.
In his twenty-fifth year, the man Yeshua travels to the seat of all learning in the ancient world - Alexandria Egypt. It falls to Aristophanes, his final mentor, to ensure completion of the Rabbi's education. It's in Egypt that Yeshua reaches a calm maturity and becomes the man of peace and power our world knows as Jesus of Nazareth. The libraries of Alexandria provide him with amazing universal truths and powers beyond mortal understanding. Yeshua is focused on absorbing knowledge so is totally unaware of his personal charisma. By the time he leaves for his homeland, Yeshua is tall, serene of spirit, with piercing eyes that see and understand all. An unnameable power and energy is growing inside him as he embarks on the final chapter of his life.
In Galilee, John the Baptist has worked for several years as Yeshua's harbinger as prophesied in Old Testment writings. John and Yeshua are cousins with contrasting personas. John is a radical zealot with fire burning in his eyes. Yeshua walks a softer path than John, while sowing seeds of wisdom with all who will listen. With the truth of God as his net, as the equivalent of a traveling country preacher, Yeshua casts for souls.
The final years of Yeshua's life follow the familiar pattern we all know. He gathers disciples around him and teaches them of God in the same way he teaches his followers -- through parables. His touch heals, resurrects from the dead, soothes troubled spirits. Yeshua loves the downtrodden, afflicted, and poor while reviling the powerful corrupted by greed. His public warnings regarding wealth, injustice, and greed bring about his downfall with Roman rulers and Jewish hierarchies. His death by crucifixion is political, and fulfills yet another set of prophesies.
Modern man has no way of knowing for certain how or where Jesus passed his years from twelve to thirty. Risen proposes a plausible version of the truth. The story is beautifully written and well told.
Laurel Johnson
Midwest Book Review
Bill Nelson
RISEN, ISBN 1-93301616-4
Behler Publications |
cora morace
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Post Number:
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Registered: 11-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 03:04 pm: | |
Good Review< Bill, I am still reading it with interest.
CJ |
Joyce Scarbrough
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
556
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, January 30, 2005 - 10:00 am: | |
Laurel really captured the essence of Risen's immense appeal. The writing is as quietly dynamic as its protagonist.
Toyce
True Blue Forever
Read the first chapter at http://www.authorsden.com/joycelscarbrough1
Read two chapters of Different Roads at http://www.authorsden.com/visit/mtr.asp?id=7737&loc=ShortStory
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Bill Nelson
Unity Member
Post Number:
1029
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, February 25, 2005 - 08:15 am: | |
Here's another review of RISEN.
Thanks to Cora for her respected insight.
Behler Publications
California
Reviewed by C.J. Morace (Author of Cocodrie and Appalachia)
RISEN is a unique read. You have to salute Mr. Nelson for his ambition and imagination in tackling a study into the most celebrated life in history during a period in which actual accounts are lacking. It truly shows the author’s ability to work in very diverse genres, as his book DEN OF DECEPTION was of such different character. Although RISEN put forth ideas which are contrary to my beliefs, I nonetheless, found it to be a thought-provoking, interesting read.
Cora J. Morace
Author of
COCODRIE ISBN:1-59286-984-X
PublishAmerica (November 2003)
http://www.publishamerica.com/shopping/index.html
APPALACHIA ISBN:0-9748962-3-3
Bill Nelson
RISEN, ISBN 1-93301616-4
Behler Publications |
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