Lord wept, the

The Lord Wept trilogy of novels on the Great Jewish Revolt against the Roman Empire treats timeless themes and issues that still plague the world. Written on a grand scale, these novels bring to life the chaos, ethnic slaughter, and civil war of this first-century tragedy as well as the intense religious atmosphere and ferment that would profoundly influence both Judaism and Christianity. The Disinherited Nation, the first novel of the trilogy, traces the bloody outbreak of the war as experienced by a broad array of actual Jewish, Christian, and Roman historic personages of the time