Betrouwbaar The Bronze Ladder – Malcolm Lyon

Beschrijving

The Bronze Ladder

This novel tells the story of early North African Christians whose lives belong with equal merit to the noble Christian history of Roman Africa. His source is perhaps the most vividly personal of all the extant records of the early Christian centuries. The Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas has attracted increased attention in recent decades because it includes the earliest known writing by a Christian woman – Perpetua’s own prison diary, a text of quite remarkable sensitivity to women’s experiences. The story of this group of Christian martyrs put to death at Carthage (near modern Tunis) in the year 203 has not yet been picked up by Hollywood, but this moving and dramatic Passion with its unimpeachable historical authenticity lends itself so naturally to the imaginative genre of a novel.

Based on the historical account of six North Africans whose lives were deeply affected by this new movement, this is a moving and at the same time inspiring story which takes us from despair and anger through to new courage and hope… and so to ultimate victory over fear and death itself.

About the author:
Born in Stirling, Scotland in 1961, Malcolm Lyon was educated at Dollar Academy and the University of St Andrews, where he studied pure mathematics. After a short stint teaching in Kenya, he trained as a maths teacher before going on to work as a research officer for the Scottish Council for Research in Education. In 1990 he and his wife left Scotland to study French in the south of France before heading across the Mediterranean to Tunisia. He spent ten years living in the old city of Tunis, learning Arabic, soaking up local culture, researching local history and teaching English at the University of Tunis. Malcolm now lives in Marseille with his wife and two daughters, where he works in multi-lingual web development

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