The Zaddik Literary Agency, Inc., is the exclusive literary agent for the marketing and distribution of the writings of the pastor of NewApostles.net.  The Zaddik Literary Agency is currently representing for distribution the Zaddik, the first novel in an historical/suspense trilogy entitled:  The Jesus Chronicles, recounting the lives of the brother’s of Jesus.  The first book is The Zaddik, a story of James and Paul and their struggle for leadership of the nascent Jerusalem Assembly, the forerunner of the Christian Church.  The story is told through the recollections of Epaphroditus, the personal secretary of the Roman Emperor Nero and friend of Paul.  The story covers the first century from the death of Christ to the death of James.

The photo below is of the Tombs of the Prophets.  The Tomb of James is in the center, with the columns.  James was thrown from the Southern steps of the Temple, stoned, pressed and half buried, James was finally murdered when a Temple Guard emerged from the crowd and smashed James in the head with a fullerman's club.  The Second Apocalypse of James found in the Nag Hamadi Library reports that they stoned James, ending the life of Jesus' brother, the Zaddik, leader of the Jerusalem Assembly and one of the acknowledged, "Pillars" of the Church as Paul said.

The photo is from a Sterioscope photo was originally published by the Keystone View Company of Meadeville, PA.  The back of the photo reads:  "You are up on Mt. Moriah, outside the wall at the southeast corner of the old city.  How steep the side of Mount Moriah is at this point!  It is almost a precipice down to the Kedron Valley whose bed is out of sight far below.  The rocky hillside in front is the Mount of Olives.  Those white stones in irregular rows are Jewish tombs.  Jews will journey to Jerusalem from every land on earth and pay large sums for burial places in this valley, for they believe that the resurrection will begin here and that those who rise from their graves on these hillsides will have a sure passport to heaven.  Then, too, they count the ground all the more sacred on account of the prophets, who are, as they believe, buried among their own graves.  You see three tombs standing out prominently?  Those are hewn out o of the native rock just as it lies.  That on the right, in a recess, is called the tomb of Zacharias and commemorates the prophet who was slain between the temple and the altar.  (Matt. xxiii:35.)  The excavation with pillars at its door is the tomb of St. James, the Lord's brother (Galatians i:19), who was martyred in the precincts of the Temple around A. D. 68.  That on the left is Absolom's Pillar.  You see there are a few olive trees here and three over the rocky slope.  That marble building is a Russian Church.  Either one of the two roads leading obliquely over the hill, this side of the church would take you to Bethany.  The other road which you see farther to the north, at the other side of the church goes to Jericho.  In all probability that is the road whose familiar way Jesus called to his hearers minds when he told them the story of the Good Samaritan.  (See "Traveling in the Holy Land through the Sterioscope.)" 

The second book is the Diary of Judas Thomas, the youngest brother of Jesus.  This novel tells the history of the family of Jesus during the years before the birth of Christ.  Joseph the patriarch of a priestly clan, attending to the last of the Hasmonian kings, navigates the treacherous political waters of Judeo/Roman politics during the transition between the Maccabees and Herodians in the days of Julius Caesar.  His sons, Zachariah and Cleophas bar Joseph marry the daughters of Joseph of Arimathea, Sarah, the mother of John the Baptist and Mary, the mother of Jesus.  The story covers the first century till the death of Christ.

The third book is The Church of the Apostles, which is the story of Simeon bar Cleophas, the second brother of Jesus.  The story is told by Simeon who returns to Jerusalem after its destruction in the Jewish War by Rome and establishes the Church of the Apostles, around the Canticle, the room of the Last Supper.  Simeon struggles to shepherd his flock, avoiding Roman persecution.  The novel covers the first century from the death of James to the end of Domitian’s reign in 98 c.e.

The Zaddik Literary Agency, Inc., is a Michigan corporation.  Its registered office is located at 122 Rawles Street, Ste., 103,  Romeo,  MI  48065   To purchase copies of The Zaddik, a story of James and Paul, please go to paypal.com and send $20.00 to Zaddiksales.   Book shall be delivered standard book rate USPS, unless priority shipping is purchased at time of sale.

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