Jerusalem's Hope, Zion Legacy Series by Bodie & Brock Thoene and published by Penguin Books.
The sixth book in these ongoing chronicles, vividly recreates a timeless tale of faith, love and redemption from the first century . As the novel opens, strategist Moshe Sachar remains hidden in a secret tunnel beneath the Temple Mount, safely removed from the chaos of the1948 war of independence, while mourners at the funeral of an elder rabbi weep above him. Using the instructions the rabbi left him before his death, Moshe opens another sacred scroll and is transported again to the dramatic biblical story of a charismatic but mysterious prophet, Yeshua.
As word of the miracles performed by Yeshua spreads, peopole whose lives he has touched are caught up in destiny. A Roman centurion, in love with a Hebrew beauty--is torn between his growing admiration for the enemy and his duty as a soldier. On the dangerous road to Jerusalem at Passover, bloody violence erupts, threatening the future of the Roman state and the surprising Identity of Yeshua is revealed.
