Jeho království - CDmp3 (Čte Ondřej Brousek)

"And I will share with you the miracle that appeared to me in a dream: The journey itself is already a kingdom." ***** Before Easter of the dramatic year that will bear the number 30 in the future Christian calendar, the unfortunate Roman Marcus Manilius Mezentianus set out from Alexandria to the holy city of the Jews. He feels that only a purifying pilgrimage will ease his broken heart, yet he continues to send letters to his Roman lover Tullia, as he has not yet come to terms with her cruelty. He arrives in Jerusalem at the moment when Jesus, who had scandalized Judea with miraculous wonders and even more outrageous teachings, has suffered on the cross. And while Marcus learns from his acquaintance Pontius Pilate about the Pharisaic motives behind the execution, the Crucified disappears from the rocky tomb, the traitor Judas returns the silver coins, and unrest grips the colony. In an honest effort to discover what set Jesus of Nazareth apart from the flood of local messiahs, the noble scholar Marcus sets out to find those whom the prophet honored with mercy. He interviews peasants, merchants, and fallen women, not excluding the apostles of the young faith. He already admits that he saw a living god on Golgotha and a champion of a more just kingdom beyond this world, but he does not yet know that he himself will have to take a decisive step in relation to him… ***** The creator of the Egyptian Sinuhe – originally...