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The Purveyor of Light: A Screenplay
Paperback
Christian FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 14 2026
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Four hundred years of silence. One boy who heard something.
Malachi has been dead forty years. Heaven has closed its mouth. In the hill town of Tekoa - the town that gave Israel the prophet Amos - the scribes guard the scrolls, the people bring their lambs, and everyone has quietly agreed that God no longer speaks.
Amariah is sixteen, and his name is the town's joke: it means the LORD has spoken. He sells olive oil - the beaten kind, the temple grade, the kind that makes light. When a ruined harvest feast and a crushing debt drive him down into Egypt, he finds wealth, wine, and a life sweet enough to keep him. But the road home leads through the desert - where his donkey dies, his map is lost to the wind, and in the deep sleep that falls on men, a dream begins walking ahead of him carrying a lamp that burns at noon.
He will spend seven years forgetting it. It will take a fever, a fish from the deep, and the voice of a God who sounds like a neighbor to make him remember.
The Purveyor of Light is a cinematic story of the silent years between the Testaments - of merchants and scribes, blind watchmen and listening children, and the God who was never absent, only holding His breath. For readers of biblical fiction who believe the famine of hearing has an ending - and that light is made by beating.
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