[Lees] eBooks The Damascus Road: A Novel of Saint Paul
By Jay Parini
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
