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  • Published: 2 April 2019
  • ISBN: 9780385538404
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368
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The Damascus Road

A Novel of Saint Paul





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 voice of the Gospel writer Luke, Paul's travel companion, scribe, and ghostwriter, a cooler perspective on his actions and beliefs emerges -- ironic but still filled with wonder at Paul's unshakable commitment to the Christ and his divinity.

  • Published: 2 April 2019
  • ISBN: 9780385538404
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368
Categories:

About the author

Jay Parini

Jay Parini has written four books of poetry and five novels, including Anthracite City, The Patch Boys, Town Life and The Last Station. He has also written a biography of John Steinbeck and a critical study of Theodore Roethke. He teaches at Middlebury College, in Vermont, where he lives with his wife and three sons.

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