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The Temple and the Arena: A family divided by competing promises of survival.

The Temple and the Arena: A family divided by competing promises of survival.

Grossy, Manuel

Paperback

Fiction Anthologies

ISBN13: 9798188192341
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 20 2026
Pages: 360
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Jerusalem, 175 BCE.

When a new high priest establishes a Greek-style gymnasium beneath the walls of the sacred city, Elior sees opportunity. The training ground offers education, discipline, friendship, civic advancement, and a place in the wider Mediterranean world. To enter that future, however, he must accept a new name-and allow others to decide which parts of his identity may follow him inside.

His brother Micah sees betrayal. To him, the gymnasium represents the abandonment of covenant, sacred law, and the traditions that have kept their people alive.

Their sister Mara trusts neither side's clean version of events.

As priestly offices are purchased, Temple silver becomes political currency, and royal authority turns division into persecution, Mara creates a ledger recording what was witnessed, what was reported, who benefited, and who paid the price. But evidence alone may not protect a family caught between imperial coercion and a resistance increasingly willing to impose its own definition of purity.

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