Discerning readers
will find “The Jericho Scrolls” to be one of the most fascinating documents of
the century. “The Jericho Scrolls”, which are the historical recollections of
Guria Julius Antigonos - Statesman, Roman Knight and Jewish Leader – were just
found by an antique dealer in Jericho, buried in a leaden chest sealed with tar
from the Dead Sea.
Now documented,
these diaries, which comprise eight scrolls of delicate Egyptian papyrus, were
written and completed 1,900 years ago. Guria's historical diary creates a
turning point for everything known until now about Jewish and world history
during the second half of the first century of the current era. In fact, the
diary includes stories that Josephus Flavius could not tell about the Jews.
As president of the
first State of Eretz Israel, Guria Julius Antigonos documents the Roman
holocaust of the Jewish People and the struggle under his leadership to
establish a democratic government within the “Promised Borders” of Israel.
A surprising
similarity and parallel between the social and political events that occurred
in the State of Eretz Israel, post Second Temple destruction, and the events
occurring in the present day State of Israel emerges from this historical
novel.