Books with author Ursula Synge

Ursula Synge has faithfully reconstructed the story of the miraculous flight from Egypt. The wanderings, the battles, defeats and the victories are set in their proper historical perspective--somewhere in the late Bronze Age. She tells the story as it must have appeared to the people who lived it, moving as they did to the conception of a single, omnipotent God; as surely as they were moving toward freedom and nationhood. Ursula Synge's new novel retells the Biblical story of the Exodus and the desperate years of wandering in the wilderness, as they might have been experienced by the people who lived through them. When Ra-Mose, Prince of Egypt, makes his first chance visit to the hut of Aaron, high priest of the Hebrews, he has no inkling that their growing friendship and his sympathy for Aaron's people will lead to the murder of a cruel overseer and his own flight into exile. In the desert, among the rough Midianite herdsmen who share common ancestors and a common God with the Hebrews, Ra-Mose is given refuge. Lonely and missing the excitement of his former life in Egypt, he marries Jethro's daughter, and dedicates their sons to the all-powerful Bull God, Yahweh. Raising his family and his flocks as the Israelite Moses, he remains solitary and apart, pondering the purpose and the meaning of God's word. It was in a moment of blinding revelation in the wilderness that the God seemed to appear and speak directly to him, commending him to return to Egypt to lead the Hebrews out of bondage.