Transgression: A Treacherous Plot to Alter History
Language: English
Published by Harvest House Publishers,U.S., 2000
Series: Book 1 of 3 - City of God
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While playing a virtual reality game, Rivka Meyers, an American Messianic Jew visiting Israel for an archaeological dig, becomes trapped in ancient Jerusalem, involved in a plot to destroy the spread of Christianity.
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- Title
- Transgression: A Treacherous Plot to Alter History
- Author
- Randall Ingermanson
- Publisher
- Harvest House Publishers,U.S.
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0736901957
- ISBN 13
- 9780736901956
- Series
- Book 1 of 3: City of God
But you never thought you'd ever actually go there.
Until now.
Your name is Rivka Meyers, and you are a total misfit.
You are a Messianic Jew, studying at UC Berkeley. Misfit.
You are a woman getting your PhD in archaeology--a man's field. Misfit.
You are in Israel working on an archaeological dig, pretending to be someone you're not. Misfit.
Your Israeli co-worker on the dig tries to set you up with his cousin, Ari Kazan. Disaster.
Because Ari likes you. And you haven't told him you're Messianic.
Ari is a theoretical physicist who wrote some crazy paper on time travel. Somehow, an experimental physicist, Damien West, thought it was a good idea.
Damien came all the way from the US to try to build a wormhole to test Ari's crazy theory.
Damien is obsessed with safety, which seems a little weird.
But he has a personal reason for wanting time travel to be real, and it's a lot weird.
Only he's not telling anyone that reason.
Damien wants to go back in time and kill the apostle Paul.
Somehow, Damien gets the wormhole working, sort of.
Somehow, he tricks you into going through the wormhole, without telling you where you're going, or when.
Somehow, you find yourself in Jerusalem, AD 57, completely unprepared and completely bedazzled. This is where you always wanted to visit. It would be dumb to leave without looking around. But too late, you realize it's even dumber to stay.
Because you're the worst possible misfit in the City of God. You didn't come dressed for a place and time where women are required to cover their bodies. Where women don't talk to men. Where women are property, not people. Where violating the rules could get you killed.
Back in the lab, Damien isn't worried about you. He packs his gun, sets a timer to shut down the wormhole, and walks through into ancient Jerusalem. If he calculated the dates right, he'll be lining up the apostle Paul in his gunsights next Tuesday.
And you can't stop him, even if you figure out what he's up to.
There's a loose cannon in this picture.
Ari Kazan.
The guy who has a weird, crazy, stupid crush on you.
The guy who's mad at you for not telling him you're a Messianic.
The guy who just found out Damien West has made a fool of him.
What's Ari going to do?
About The Book
Transgression won the 2001 Christy award for best futuristic novel in Christian fiction.
Transgression will take you on a wretched, miserable, dangerous adventure through the filthy, bandit-ridden streets of first-century Jerusalem.
Transgression is the first novel in the City of God series:
- Book 1: Transgression (A.D. 57)
- Book 2: Premonition (A.D. 57-62)
- Book 3: Retribution (A.D. 62-66)
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From the Back Cover
Rivka raced outside into the sunlight, sprinted madly through a dark grove of trees with gnarled branches. Her heart pounded in her chest. Her ragged breath rasped in her ears. Was he following? Faster! Tears fogged her eyes. Her leather sandals tore at her feet. Trying to look back over her shoulder, she tripped and fell. Dust flew up all around her.
Coughing, she clambered to her feet and dared to look back. The man was nowhere in sight.
Rivka panted until she caught her breath. Her left wrist throbbed from the fall. She massaged it while she squinted into the trees, afraid that the man might be lurking in the shadows.
Nothing happened.
Finally, she turned around to get her bearings.
She blinked twice and then stared.
Across a small valley massive stone walls rose. Herodian masonry. Jerusalem limestone. Towering white walls. It looked like...
But that was impossible. She closed her eyes, breathed deeply three times, and opened them again. Absurd. Had she gone loony or something?
Rivka had visited the Temple Mount twice and studied hundreds of pictures during three years of graduate school. But she had never seen it looking like this.
So pure.
So spotless.
So new.
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