❴Ebook❵ ➦ Pilate's Wife Author H.D. – Birkafood.co Veronica Pontius Pilate's wife is beautiful brilliant and weary of a life spent in her boudoir and the Roman court When one of her lovers sends her disguised as a servant to a seer she feels suddenly Veronica Pontius Pilate's wife is beautiful brilliant and weary of a life spent in her boudoir and the Roman court When one of her lovers sends her disguised as a servant to a seer she feels suddenly alive experiencing sudden pre visions of inner splendor The seer Mnevis arouses the artist the dreamer in her eventually telling her of a Jew a love god who believes women ha.
Ve an important place in the spiritual hierarchy What follows is a chain of events in which Veronica commits the one genuine act of her life offering Jesus a way out before his crucifixionThis revision of biblical history—in the tradition of D H Lawrence's The Man Who Died and Kazantzakis's The Last Temptation of Christ—is not just a novel; but part of the ongoing dia.
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