Lulu, the world s fastest growing on-line publisher, releases The Tin Merchant, the Passion of Jesus as it happened to a Family.
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Lulu, the world’s fastest growing on-line publisher, releases The Tin Merchant, the Passion of Jesus as it happened to a Family.
The alleged memoirs of Joseph of Aramithea. Written from the point of view of an old man in exile in Avalon. Iit is the story of the Jesus Mission and Passion a.s told by a cousin. Bron, a Druid, listens year by year, hearing the story in a Celtic context.
— Following the Glastonbury myths that place Joseph of Arimathea in Somerset in the first century, Tin Merchant uses multiple levels of indirection to render a consistent vision of the life of Jesus, his political, social, and theological background from his birth until the founding of the Church of Jerusalem.
Joseph, a first cousin Mary, nephew to Anna and Joachim, tells the story of Jesus’s life as he knew it to Bron, a Druid priest who had lived as a boy in
Antioch. Throughout the telling, Bron comments and raises questions from a Celtic point of view. He offers resurrection and Divine Child parallels from Celtic myth.
The story includes the late birth of Mary and her struggles with her father as she develops her personal views of Temple practices, social structure,, and justice in first century Judea. After discovering her mysterious pregnancy, the nature of which is left ambiguous, she is married to Joseph. Jesus is born in Bethlehem. The family goes to Alexandria for business, and Mary encounters the heady atmosphere of Hellenized mystic Philo-like Judaism and its Neo-Platonic basis.
The attitudes and experiences of Mary profoundly influence the young Jesus when they return from Egypt to Galilee. A turning point in his life is when he half-brother James tells him Joseph (of Nazareth) is not his father. Under the influence of the Essene teachers, he develops an image of himself as the Son of Man, the Suffering Servant, and rejects Mary’s vision of a Davidic Messiah.