While writing A Ram for Mars, I had to make a decision about what to call the ancestral homeland of the Jews to which Marcus and Miriam are traveling when the book opens…
Anyone who has even a passing familiarity with the history of Israel in the time of Jesus (for Christians) or Hillel (for Jews) knows that the land was ruled by Rome…
The city of Magdala plays a vital role in A Ram for Mars as the final stop on Marcus’s quest to find his mother and the place where he and Miriam decide to settle down…
Galilee, the northern district of Israel, plays a vital role in A Ram for Mars as both the homeland of Marcus’s ancestors (through his grandmother)…
Golda Meir, former prime minister of Israel, once quipped, “Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses…
Anyone who has heard anything about Jesus knows that he was crucified by Roman soldiers after being condemned by the Roman prefect Pontius Pilate…
Mosaic of slaves preparing for or serving at a banquet I anticipate that many of my readers will be surprised to see the relatively…
Map of modern Turkey showing the location of Antioch-near-Pisidia The city where much of this story takes place was one of 16 cities in…
Since the A Slave’s Story series is written from the vantage point of one of the characters in the story, I made a conscious effort to…
Artist’s rendition of a typical Greek city One of the hardest things for modern readers to comprehend about the ancient world, at least…