Book Review - The Copper Scroll by Joel C. Rosenberg
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Joel Rosenberg has gotten a lot of press lately with his end-time prophesy novels that seem to predate actual headlines. His latest book, The Copper Scroll, takes off from where The Ezekiel Option left off. It's not quite as good, but still it's an enjoyable read with a few things I need to research further...
Jon Bennett finally gets married to Erin McCoy (from the prior novel), and they are both ready to bid farewell to public government service. But as soon as they are pronounced "man and wife", world affairs interfere with their "happily ever after". A suicide bombing attempts to take out the President, and Jon & Erin are slowly dragged back into service to offer insights. When Mordechai, the Jewish person who came up with the Ezekiel Option during the last attack on Israel, is gunned down, they are driven to help solve the murder. This murder, and a number of others, are all related to the "copper scroll", one of the finds from the Dead Sea Scrolls. The copper scroll reportedly tells where a vast fortune of treasure is stored, but they first need to find the "key scroll". That will point the way towards solving the mystery, and it will also lead to the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem. Naturally, there are a number of Arab groups who will do anything to stop this, and these groups are the ones that are willing to kill to keep things as they are...
I didn't think this was quite as good as The Ezekiel Option, even though it's intriguing. I didn't know there even was such a thing as the Copper Scroll, but Rosenberg has plenty of references and annotations so you can do your own investigation. While this particular item might truly be a way that the Temple is rebuilt in Jerusalem, I didn't get the same "this is happening now" feeling as I got from his prior work. Still, it's not as if this couldn't happen or transpire in a similar fashion.
Good as entertainment, with the added element of realism that has been under the radar of most stories about the Dead Sea Scrolls. If you're a fan of Rosenberg's work, you'll enjoy this...
Joel Rosenberg has gotten a lot of press lately with his end-time prophesy novels that seem to predate actual headlines. His latest book, The Copper Scroll, takes off from where The Ezekiel Option left off. It's not quite as good, but still it's an enjoyable read with a few things I need to research further...
Jon Bennett finally gets married to Erin McCoy (from the prior novel), and they are both ready to bid farewell to public government service. But as soon as they are pronounced "man and wife", world affairs interfere with their "happily ever after". A suicide bombing attempts to take out the President, and Jon & Erin are slowly dragged back into service to offer insights. When Mordechai, the Jewish person who came up with the Ezekiel Option during the last attack on Israel, is gunned down, they are driven to help solve the murder. This murder, and a number of others, are all related to the "copper scroll", one of the finds from the Dead Sea Scrolls. The copper scroll reportedly tells where a vast fortune of treasure is stored, but they first need to find the "key scroll". That will point the way towards solving the mystery, and it will also lead to the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem. Naturally, there are a number of Arab groups who will do anything to stop this, and these groups are the ones that are willing to kill to keep things as they are...
I didn't think this was quite as good as The Ezekiel Option, even though it's intriguing. I didn't know there even was such a thing as the Copper Scroll, but Rosenberg has plenty of references and annotations so you can do your own investigation. While this particular item might truly be a way that the Temple is rebuilt in Jerusalem, I didn't get the same "this is happening now" feeling as I got from his prior work. Still, it's not as if this couldn't happen or transpire in a similar fashion.
Good as entertainment, with the added element of realism that has been under the radar of most stories about the Dead Sea Scrolls. If you're a fan of Rosenberg's work, you'll enjoy this...
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http://cwhisonant.blogspot.com/2006/06/awesome-weekend-dead-sea-scrolls-and.html
The scroll does list a cache of treasure that was believed to either have been Qumran items that were hidden by the Essenes who (most likely inhabited Qumran) or was a listing of items that were in the Temple before it was destroyed in AD 70.
See also:
http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/educational_site/dead_sea_scrolls/copperscroll.shtml
Posted by Chris Whisonant At 06:49:17 On 28/08/2006 | - Website - |