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"First century CE, Roman Palestine: " Yehuda Tauma believes he's found his lucky break when he finds a valuable pearl on the floor of the temple of Jerusalem where he works as a scribe. Convinced that his position at the temple only serves to maintain the network of corruption and greed that he eschews, Yehuda and his bodyguard Ioannis set out for a new life in Damascus. But when they come upon the body of Yehuda's adopted father and mentor outside the village of Armageddon, Yehuda vows to find the killer and uncover the reason...

Eine geheimnisvolle Welt offnet sich: Scheinbar vertraute Worte und Botschaften des Jesus aus Nazareth werden aus seiner aramaischen Muttersprache ganz neu fur uns ubersetzt. Der aramaischen Jesus redet, lehrt und verkundet wie ein eingeborener Prophet und Mystiker der Wuste."

The New Story about the Oldest Stories in the World Today apocalyptic predictions and images dominate popular culture and social media. Yet for most of our history, human consciousness focused on the mystery of beginnings, not endings. Our ancestors felt that the most powerful energy and clearest vision for the future could be found at our inception. They meditated on stories of the Great Beginning as the way to go forward.
Original Meditation is two books in one. First it investigates the ancient tradition of creation mysticism and shows how Western culture became...