Joseph, the teller of this extraordinary story, is born into modest circumstances and spends his life as a working man, mainly as a welder. But this is not all there is to Joseph; for Joseph, from his earliest years serving as a soldier in what was then Palestine, has seen and heard things that have been vouchsafed to very few. He has heard and felt the beating of great wings; he has seen the blazing light at the end of the rainbow; and he has heard deep within his spirit, the voice of the Lord, sending Joseph about His business. Mixed with the full story of an ordinary life, is the parallel...