![]() ![]() ![]() Back in Rosh’s cave, Daniel is given the job of filing the chains off the former slave Samson’s wrists. Rosh says he’ll send for Joel in due time. Joel jumps into the action, too, and tells Rosh he’d like to work for him. The boys talk about their shared hatred of the Romans and their hope that the Messiah will soon arrive to liberate the Jewish people.Īs Daniel escorts his new friends down the mountain, he’s summoned to join Rosh’s men in seizing an enslaved man from a passing caravan. Since then, he’s worked for the outlaw Zealot, Rosh, who is training a band of men to fight and overthrow the occupiers. After suffering much abuse, he fled Amalek five years ago. ![]() Though wary, Daniel slowly relaxes enough to tell them his story. The twins don’t know much about Daniel’s family, but they invite him to share their lunch. ![]() They recognize him as the runaway apprentice of the village blacksmith Amalek. Awkward, yet anxious for news of his grandmother and younger sister Leah back home, he approaches the twins. One day he encounters Joel bar Hezron, a former classmate from synagogue school, and Joel’s twin sister, Malthace (or Thacia), sightseeing on the mountain. A Zealot (or fighter for Galilean Jewish freedom), he lives with a rebel band in a cave overlooking his home village of Ketzah. Daniel bar Jamin is an 18-year-old Galilean living under the Roman occupation of Palestine. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |