Bruce Judisch, Author of A Prophet's Tale

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Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him to the public.
--- Sir Winston Churchill

Books

Prologue to
A Prophet's Tale
Ben Amittai: First Call, by Buce Judisch

Tell the King and the people: Israel shall be restored to the land...for a season."

The angel's words reverberated in Jonah's mind as he set his face toward Samaria.

A naïve and tentative Jonah ben Amittai witnesses the horror of Assyrian warfare at tender age and it changes his life. Elihu, King Jehu's young armor bearer, shares this raw experience, but comes away with a different perspective. Throughout their lives, the points of view these closest of friends clash and complement―and by God's grace, they complement at just the right time.

In Ben Amittai: First Call, Jonah receives his first prophetic commission: to deliver God's message of restoration to Israel (2 Kings 14:25). He and Elihu embark on an eventful journey to the court of the newly crowned King Jeroboam, but they arrive at the palace at the worst possible time. Jonah must get God's message to the king, but how does an unknown tanner from a small village in Galilee gain audience with a king during a time of national crisis?

God will see to His word, but Jonah's story is only beginning.

Coming Soon

Part One to

A Prophet's Tale

Watch for A Prophet's Tale, coming from OakTara Publishing in August 2009, for the continuing story of Jonah. In the first installment, The Journey Begun, the angel commissions Jonah to preach in Nineveh (Jonah 1:1-2). However, repulsed by his hatred for the Assyrians, and prodded by a demon who has no intention of letting a prophet of God onto her Mesopotamian turf, Jonah flees to Joppa. In his rebellion, a series of misadventures befalls him: separation from his family, estrangement from his best friend, betrayal of another friend and entrapment with a young orphan forced into harlotry. In Joppa, he boards the Ba'al Hayam―a ship with a past of its own―bound for Tarshish (Jonah 1:3). After his harrowing escape from the storm at sea, the angel re-commissions him to preach in Nineveh (Jonah 1:4-3:2); however, the angel informs him, "There are wrongs to right that are added to your journey." Jonah retraces his steps back to his home in Gath-hepher where his most poignant task awaits him: reconciliation with his family.

Part Two to

A Prophet's Tale

The Word Fulfilled

(Cover Design Forthcoming)

A city will be obliterated in forty days. Unless…

Israel. A prophet endures unimaginable hardships on his journey to deliver a message of hope to Assyria. Dark forces dog his every step while angels protect the word he carries, but is he up to the task?

Nineveh. A girl’s coming-of-age ritual goes terribly wrong. A priestess would have the young beauty as her own, but a goddess has her own plans for her. The unlikely love of a young man becomes her only hope, but is it enough?

Nimrud. The Igigi, the great gods of the Assyrian pantheon, are on the move. Their omens of discontent throw a nation into turmoil. The king and his vizier scheme to evade their wrath, but is it too late?

Three separate acts converge at a critical point on the stage of history. Elohim Adonai, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, will direct the drama to its tumultuous conclusion, but will man learn the lesson?

Relive the world of 8th-century bc with Jonah, Ianna and Ahu-duri as they struggle with the roles they must play in bringing God’s word to fulfillment.

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