The Carpenter's Revolution

di Walker Robert (Autore)

Robert Walker, 2025

THE CARPENTER'S REVOLUTION Before he was a savior, he was a revolutionary. Before the cross, there was the carpenter's bench. In the shadow of Roman crucifixes and Herod's paranoia, a young carpenter named Yeshua ben Yosef comes of age in occupied Galilee. While history remembers him for the final three years of his life, this novel imagines the eighteen lost years that forged a revolutionary whose ideas would bring an empire to its knees. Born into a world where messianic hope collides with imperial brutality, Yeshua must navigate the dangerous currents of first-century Judea. His father Joseph initiates him into more than carpentry—teaching him the hidden traditions of resistance and the true cost of survival under occupation. His mother Miriam guards terrible secrets about his birth that could destroy them all. And his radical cousin Yochanan speaks of a kingdom that will overthrow everything. From the paranoid court of Herod the Great to the dusty construction sites of Sepphoris, from Egyptian exile to the corrupt grandeur of the Temple, Yeshua grows from apprentice to master craftsman, building for collaborators while witnessing the systematic destruction of his own people. Each beam he shapes, each foundation he lays, becomes a meditation on what it means to build versus what it means to tear down. When Roman violence strikes close to home and zealot fever grips his community, Yeshua must choose: take up the sword like the failed messiahs before him, or forge an entirely different kind of revolution—one that confounds both Rome and the religious establishment with its refusal to play by the rules of power. A political thriller wrapped in historical fiction, The Carpenter's Revolution reimagines one of history's most influential figures at his most human—a young man struggling to understand his purpose in a world designed to crush it. An empire saw a threat. A father saw a son. A world saw a revolution it wasn't ready for. Discover how a carpenter's son became the architect of a movement that would outlast the empire that killed him.

• Autore: Walker Robert
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: Robert Walker
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798231021499