The Wolf and the Lamb

Frederick Ramsay

• 02 december 2014
• 9781464203299

Samenvatting:

It's Passover. Gamaliel and his physician friend, Loukas, are crime-solving a third time-reluctantly. Pontius Pilate has been accused of murder. If convicted, he might escape death but would be removed from Judea. Those rejoicing urge the Rabban to mind his own business. But Gamaliel pushes on, knowing that exonerating the Roman could cost him his position, possibly his life. He examines evidence and teases out suspects. Unusually, justice triumphs over enmity. Gamaliel is satisfied, High Priest Caiaphas is irate and few notice the events of what will later be known as Easter. Ramsay's plausible narrative answers some questions which have puzzled Biblical scholars for centuries. Why did Pilate hear the case against Jesus? And we ask, why could Caiaphas not heed Gamaliel's warnings not to martyr the man? Frederick Ramsay has published fourteen books that range from historicals (The Jerusalem Mysteries), to Africa (The Botswana Mysteries), to police procedurals (The Ike Schwartz Mysteries). He lives and writes in Arizona. www.frederickramsay.com