BETHEL LUTHERAN CHURCH and PRESCHOOL

The Jerusalem Scrolls

In Jerusalem Vigil, Thunder From Jerusalem, and Jerusalem's Heart, the first three installments of the bestselling Zion Legacy series, Bodie and Brock Thoene thrilled readers with their action-packed, dramatic portrayal of the heroic yet perilous battle for Jerusalem in 1948. In an exciting twist to the series, The Jerusalem Scrolls, the fourth book, takes the story back in time to tell an ancient tale of love, faith, and redemption.

After days of brutal fighting, the Israeli forces. overpowered by the Arabs and running out of supplies, are positioned for defeat. Moshe Sachar, their courageous leader and one of only a few Israelis remaining in the Old City, has followed the dying wishes of an elder rabbi and has escaped into a secret tunnel under the city, where sacred scrolls that tell the history of their faith and people are safely hidden. Moshe opens a scroll and becomes immersed in the extraordinary story from the first century A.D. of Miryam, a beautiful yet troubled young widow, and Marcus, her Roman suitor. While Marcus, a centurion who is fighting to keep his position in the empire in the face of corrupt officials and a native population on the brink of rebellion, feels passionately for her, Miryam, shamed by an act of sin and haunted by the death of her mother, is still searching for true meaning in her life. When a mysterious prophet threatens the security of the Roman empire, Miryam's quest for love and forgiveness puts them all in the middle of a dangerous, manipulative plot that will change the course of history.

With stirring accounts of many events and characters from the Bible, The Jerusalem Scrolls is a page-turning novel that again combines wonderful storytelling with a fascinating historical setting. This unique episode will leave readers eagerly awaiting the next book in the series, Stones of Jerusalem.

Bodie & Brock Thoene are the authors of  Jerusalem Vigil, Thunder from Jerusalem, and Jerusalem's Heart, the first three novels of the Zion Legacy series. Their other thirty-two novels include the bestselling series The Zion Chronicles and The Zion Covenant. Together they have won eight Evangelical Christian Publishers Gold Medallion awards. They live in Nevada and London, England.