The Messiah

by Marek Halter

Book Overview

Marek Halter returns with a remarkable tale - based in truth - of the little-known crusade by a 16th century Jew to marshal support for a Jewish state, four centuries before the creation of modern-day... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592642160
• ISBN13: 9781592642168
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Toby Press
• Length: 487 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

long book--486 pages

It is the year 1524. JEW David Reubeni is a Warrior. He goes to see the Pope. He wants the Pope to help him get an army together of Christians and Jews to remove the Arabs from Israel. The Pope says he will help him. But everything goes terribly wrong. He has few supporters among his own people. They want him to be THE MESSIAH but he is not. They don't want him stirring up trouble. Christians and Jews will turn him over to the Inquisition. They want him burned at the stake. Who is David Ruebeni? Book says he is from Chabor a Jewish kingdom of 300,00 people in the African desert. He is King Josephs brother. Was there such a people? I don't know. Does he die...the book leaves you wondering. It is not my favorite Halter book. It's just OK. It took me a long time to finish it. I will be greatly interested in seeing what the next reviewer thinks about it.