A Niece’s Letter From Jerusalem.
This is a fictional letter I imagined from niece to uncle somewhere around the Mediterranean in the first century. My dearest beloved Uncle John, I write you in the love of God who is One, and our family who misses you greatly. At least, most of the family misses you. As you know, it has been four years since I have seen you. My mother (your beloved sister) tells me you are living across the Great Sea with the mother of the rabbi. But there are also horrible rumors you have been taken prisoner to a strange island of the Hellenists. If this rumor is true, who is taking care [...]









