I’ve finished writing the opening and closing segments of The Book of Voices.
Each is from the point of view of a non-Biblical character, Elisheva. I hope that they tie together threads from the stories between them. The opening is quite short. The closing is, admittedly, very long (about 6500 words).
I will, no doubt, be incorporating edits and rewrites as I prepare the book for eventual publication, however that may happen. (Does anyone have connections to an appropriate agent or publisher?) I already have heavily marked up a hardcopy of most of the book. But the website will stand as the first-draft versions, at least for now.
So go and read! I welcome any comments.
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When I read the first Elisheva passage, I assumed she was the Elisheva, the mother of John the Baptist. But when I read the second one, I knew she couldn’t be. The John article is worth reading in full: different religions have had very different views of this man, a charismatic preacher in a Messiah-ridden age who (as far as we ever hear of him) carefully claimed that he was not the one.
Hmm! I wasn’t familiar with this figure. It’s been a while since I read the Gospels. Elisheva was, I think, a pretty common name. (Actually, at the time that I conceived the character, she was to be a potter, with an overcomplicated story about her recording the voices on shards. I had recently met a potter named Elizabeth, so I used her name.)
As far as John the Baptist, you may have noticed that in my piece on Elijah, I mention that one of the names by which he is called in stories is “Jochanan.” That one’s not a coincidence.
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