The Damascus Road: a novel of Saint Paul

✍ Scribed by Parini, Jay;the Apostle Saint Paul;the Apostle Saint. Paul

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 289 KB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 0385538405

✦ Synopsis

From the author of the international bestseller The Last Station , a superb historical novel of the Apostle Paul, whose tireless and epic preaching of the message of Jesus brought Christianity into existence and changed human history forever.
In the years after Christ's crucifixion, Paul of Tarsus, a prosperous tentmaker and Jewish scholar, took it upon himself to persecute the small groups of his followers that sprung up. But on the road to Damascus, he had some sort of blinding vision, a profound conversion experience that transformed Paul into the most effective and influential messenger Christianity has ever had. In The Damascus Road novelist Jay Parini brings this fascinating and ever-controversial figure to full human life, capturing his visionary passions and vast contradictions. In relating Paul's epic journeys, both geographical and spiritual, he unfolds a vivid panorama of the ancient world on the verge of epochal change. And in the alternating...

✦ Subjects

Apostles -- Fiction