The Man Named Ephraim

By Tom Morrison

Once upon a time there was an itinerant merchant who went to Jerusalem. It was the time of the Second Temple. Tiberius was emperor and Pontius Pilate the prelate of Judea. The events that occur in Ephraim find no home in the synoptics, Mathew, Mark and Luke. Which version contains the truth is a matter of stance. As a child I was puzzled that the Father would choose such a harsh fate for his only Son, for I could not imagine my own parent being so uncaring. Perhaps this story is fashioned from that young and simple view. I hope readers will remember the role of time and chance, and the rarity of choice.
Observations of religion:
1. Historians modify facts to sustain their narrative.
2. Men tailor the past to suit the institutions which wear it.
3. Events occur in time but the records of those events are constructed to design.
4. The past offers us an illusion, as solid as a cloud. It is there we build castles where none but ghosts can thrive

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tom Morrison
• Release date: Dec 22, 2013
• ISBN: 9781310478857

Tom Morrison

Entrepreneur and antiquarian, over-schooled and under-educated, polyglot, grammatically challenged in four languages, pedant in one. At the barricades since birth in a St. Louis Catholic orphanage. Schools, war enlistee, universities. Uncultivated amateur expatriate in France, Austria, Germany and Spain with an extended coda in Malibu. Self-indulgent. Only ambition...writing, making money in the shortest time possible, and causing no pain in the parade. Loves Vermeer. France. Flaubert. Ibiza. Heller. Collects 18th and 19th century Ninos Jesus, same periods polychrome wood sculpture of Saints, and antique Yoruba Ibejis. P.S. Aims to delete modifiers attached to innocent nouns or verbs. Friend of Fowler. A challenge to be funny on a verbal diet.

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