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A review by kiaramedina
A.D. 30 by Ted Dekker
5.0
I'm a huge fan of Ted Dekker. I may own all his books in one form or other.
So when this book was announced, I knew I had to get my hands on it.
A.D. 30 is raw, it is powerful, it is real.
True to Dekker's writing, this book makes you want to keep reading. You build a connection with all the characters and you just have to know what happens to them.
Maviah's story, Joshua's story, Saba's story are all crucially important. But Yeshua's story. Yeshua's story is told, in snippets, in conversations, in actual appearances. He is the focal point, the game changer. He is the answer to everything our characters need.
As a believer, this book is impactful in so many different ways. It's radical. It makes me look at the New Testament with a new light, a new experience. When Yeshua comes out in the story, I nearly cried. I imagined myself as Maviah seeing Yeshua for the first time, not knowing exactly who He was, trying to understand what He was saying (Radical in His day, radical in mine), coming to the conclusions that let her become who she is at the end of the book.
Yeshua became real to me in a different way than I was used to. He's always been God, Heavenly Father, and He's always been real. But A.D. 30 made Him real in a way that was tangible. He is no longer the stiff Person I read about in Scriptures that are heard so often they have lost their meaning. He is now a person. A person who challenged society, who said things that were borderline crazy to those around Him.
This is the Man I see when I read Scripture now. Not some 2-D character, but a real, personal person.
This book is life changing.
Also, it makes you never want to say Jesus, it's Yeshua.
So when this book was announced, I knew I had to get my hands on it.
A.D. 30 is raw, it is powerful, it is real.
True to Dekker's writing, this book makes you want to keep reading. You build a connection with all the characters and you just have to know what happens to them.
Maviah's story, Joshua's story, Saba's story are all crucially important. But Yeshua's story. Yeshua's story is told, in snippets, in conversations, in actual appearances. He is the focal point, the game changer. He is the answer to everything our characters need.
As a believer, this book is impactful in so many different ways. It's radical. It makes me look at the New Testament with a new light, a new experience. When Yeshua comes out in the story, I nearly cried. I imagined myself as Maviah seeing Yeshua for the first time, not knowing exactly who He was, trying to understand what He was saying (Radical in His day, radical in mine), coming to the conclusions that let her become who she is at the end of the book.
Yeshua became real to me in a different way than I was used to. He's always been God, Heavenly Father, and He's always been real. But A.D. 30 made Him real in a way that was tangible. He is no longer the stiff Person I read about in Scriptures that are heard so often they have lost their meaning. He is now a person. A person who challenged society, who said things that were borderline crazy to those around Him.
This is the Man I see when I read Scripture now. Not some 2-D character, but a real, personal person.
This book is life changing.
Also, it makes you never want to say Jesus, it's Yeshua.