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Jerusalem #4
Poisoned Pen Press
December 2014
On Sale: December 2, 2014
Featuring: Gamaliel; Loukas
400 pages
ISBN: 1464203261
EAN: 9781464203268
Kindle: 1464203261
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Fiction | Mystery
It’s Passover. Gamaliel and his physician friend, Loukas,
are crime-solving a third time—reluctantly. Pontius
Pilate has been accused of murder. He denies the crime.
If convicted, he might escape death but would be removed
from Judea. Those rejoicing urge the Rabban to mind his
own business. But Gamaliel is a just man which is, as
Pilate says to him, “your weakness and also your
strength.”
Knowing that exonerating the Roman could cost him his
position, possibly his life, Gamaliel, as would Sherlock
Holmes centuries later, examines evidence and sorts
through tangled threads, teasing out suspects who include
assassins, Roman nobles, Pilate’s wife, rogue
legionnaires, slaves, servants, thespians, and a race
horse named Pegasus. Unusually, justice triumphs over
enmity. Gamaliel is satis˜ ed, High Priest Caiaphas is
irate, Loukas accepts an apprentice from Tarsus, 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? Why invent prisoner
be released at Passover? Having done so, why offer the
most terrifying criminal in the country, Barabbas, as the
substitute for Jesus when two better, less dangerous
prisoners were at hand? And we ask, why could Caiaphas
not heed Gamaliel’s warnings not to martyr the man?
Jerusalem
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