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trisha76's review against another edition
4.0
Jon Bennett en Erin McCoy staan op het punt te trouwen voor hun vrienden en familie. Hun beste vriend Eli Mordachai trouwt hen. Bennett en McCcy zijn twee voormalige geheime dienstmedewerkers en veel van hun vrienden behoren tot deze groep. Tijdens hun huwelijksdag krijgen de belangrijkste vrienden een telefoontje en ziet men op het nieuws dat er een aanslag is gepleegd op een beroemd hotel.
De Bennetts laten zich er niet van weerhouden om toch op huwelijksreis te gaan. Dit gaat goed, maar al snel worden ze gebeld. Hun beste vriend Mordechai is zwaargewond geraakt tijdens een aanslag en ze woren verzocht om met spoed naar Israël te komen.
Daar raken ze betrokken bij het onderzoek van hun beste vriend en worden ze uiteindelijk verdacht door de Israëlisch geheime dienst van verschillende moorden. De contacten van de Bennetts proberen hun te helpen, maar de Bennetts hebben te maken met een vijand die koste wat het kost het onderzoek willen saboteren en die op de hoogte is van hun laatste verblijfplaats. Maar het doel van het onderzoek is groots en van groot historisch belang.
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Het is het eerste boek van Rosenberg dat ik heb gelezen. Het is verbazend dat de bijbelpassages zo goed zijn verwerkt en de verwijzingen juist zijn. Het is geen echte thriller, maar de spanning zit er wel in. Het verhaal weet je te pakken en blijft je verbazen.
De vier sterren ken ik toe, omdat dit boek gewoon heerlijk is om te lezen, je mee wordt getrokken en de bijbelpassages zo goed zijn verwerkt. Tevens zijn de verwijzingen naar deze passages juist waardoor het boek echter lijkt.
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Over Joel C. Rosenberg is bekend dat hij geboren is in 1967 en dat hij onder andere adviseur is geweest van President Netanyahu. Zijn eerste boek ging over twee vliegtuigen tijdens een Jihad die de twin towers invlogen. Dit boek kwam twee maanden voor 11 september 2001 uit.
Meer over deze auteur is er bijna niet te vinden. Zijn eigen website is op het moment niet te bereiken.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/221833.Joel_C_Rosenberg
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Over het boek:
©2006 Joel C. Rosenberg; Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton Illinois.
Originele titel: The Copper scroll
©2007 Mozaïek, Zoetermeer
Vertaling: Rick de Gier
Omslagontwerp: Dean H. Renninger/ Bas Mazur
Illustratie Mark en Audrey gibson/Stock Connection
ISBN: 978 90 239 0544 8
Opdracht:
Voor Caleb, Jonah en Noah, van wie ik zielsveel houd
Vergeet nooit dat er een schat is die meer waard is dan goud.
De Bennetts laten zich er niet van weerhouden om toch op huwelijksreis te gaan. Dit gaat goed, maar al snel worden ze gebeld. Hun beste vriend Mordechai is zwaargewond geraakt tijdens een aanslag en ze woren verzocht om met spoed naar Israël te komen.
Daar raken ze betrokken bij het onderzoek van hun beste vriend en worden ze uiteindelijk verdacht door de Israëlisch geheime dienst van verschillende moorden. De contacten van de Bennetts proberen hun te helpen, maar de Bennetts hebben te maken met een vijand die koste wat het kost het onderzoek willen saboteren en die op de hoogte is van hun laatste verblijfplaats. Maar het doel van het onderzoek is groots en van groot historisch belang.
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Het is het eerste boek van Rosenberg dat ik heb gelezen. Het is verbazend dat de bijbelpassages zo goed zijn verwerkt en de verwijzingen juist zijn. Het is geen echte thriller, maar de spanning zit er wel in. Het verhaal weet je te pakken en blijft je verbazen.
De vier sterren ken ik toe, omdat dit boek gewoon heerlijk is om te lezen, je mee wordt getrokken en de bijbelpassages zo goed zijn verwerkt. Tevens zijn de verwijzingen naar deze passages juist waardoor het boek echter lijkt.
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Over Joel C. Rosenberg is bekend dat hij geboren is in 1967 en dat hij onder andere adviseur is geweest van President Netanyahu. Zijn eerste boek ging over twee vliegtuigen tijdens een Jihad die de twin towers invlogen. Dit boek kwam twee maanden voor 11 september 2001 uit.
Meer over deze auteur is er bijna niet te vinden. Zijn eigen website is op het moment niet te bereiken.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/221833.Joel_C_Rosenberg
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Over het boek:
©2006 Joel C. Rosenberg; Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton Illinois.
Originele titel: The Copper scroll
©2007 Mozaïek, Zoetermeer
Vertaling: Rick de Gier
Omslagontwerp: Dean H. Renninger/ Bas Mazur
Illustratie Mark en Audrey gibson/Stock Connection
ISBN: 978 90 239 0544 8
Opdracht:
Voor Caleb, Jonah en Noah, van wie ik zielsveel houd
Vergeet nooit dat er een schat is die meer waard is dan goud.
clockless's review against another edition
4.0
Your reaction to the book will largely depend on your acceptance of the underlying premise. Ignoring the premise, this is a competent, engaging thriller -- with the exception of the occasional glimpse into the machinations of the bad guys, who seem to be written in a different, less thoughtful style as if they were tacked on after the book was finished.
The premise itself has two problems. The one is the obvious, heavy protestant-style Christian theme. It's not so much that the characters themselves are religious, but that the plot is religious too, so that the book doesn't just let you know that they believe in what they do, but that they are unambiguously right. Naturally, if you go into this book with the same worldview, you'll finish feeling a foot taller and incredibly self-righteous. You might say that it was designed by its creator with that in mind. For those that don't share that worldview, it would take a lot of patience to see through it to the decent story underneath.
The second problem with the premise is simple, but when you are dealing with not just a supernatural force but the Will of God, it's hard to justify putting the protagonists at risk. There shouldn't be any danger at all. Obviously starting from the premise that everything will work out according to God's plan doesn't make for good drama, but that's hardly my fault. To paraphrase Kirk in The Final Frontier, why does God need you to take a bullet to the knee?
The premise itself has two problems. The one is the obvious, heavy protestant-style Christian theme. It's not so much that the characters themselves are religious, but that the plot is religious too, so that the book doesn't just let you know that they believe in what they do, but that they are unambiguously right. Naturally, if you go into this book with the same worldview, you'll finish feeling a foot taller and incredibly self-righteous. You might say that it was designed by its creator with that in mind. For those that don't share that worldview, it would take a lot of patience to see through it to the decent story underneath.
The second problem with the premise is simple
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and it reminds me a little of the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, coincidentallynicole1's review against another edition
1.0
This was the least memorable of the series. I enjoyed the other books, but this one did nothing to advance the series. Dissapointed.
brettt's review
3.0
One of the weaknesses of what's called "end times fiction" in religious publishing circles is how to include enough esoteric details the pre-, post- or a-millennial audience wants to see about the interpretations of Biblical prophecy without drowning the story in so much of that kind of minutiae that a general audience will check out rather than wade through it.
Another is that it's often very poorly written. Former political consultant Joel C. Rosenberg's The Last Jihad series largely overcomes the first problem and makes a decent enough stab at the second to rank it well above the industry standard "Left Behind" series. The Copper Scroll is the fourth book of the series, so this note may spoil some of the earlier books if you decide to read them.
Former presidential advisor Jon Bennett and Erin McCoy, his aide and also a CIA officer, have been able to marry each other without an international crisis wrecking the day. Their honeymoon, on the other hand...
The Bennetts find themselves caught in a murderous web of intrigue surrounding the words of the "Copper Scroll," found in the Qumran caves in the late 1940s along with the other Dead Sea Scrolls. An Israeli archaeologist believes he has keys to deciphering the scrolls mysterious directions to immense hidden treasure. Government leaders in Israel and the United States are interested, and the remaining leadership of areas devastated by a space-borne firestorm in the previous book are looking at the treasure for the resources it could give them in their recovery. Who will learn the Copper Scroll's secrets first, and what will the consequences be?
Rosenberg does a much better job than "Left Behind" authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins at creating a real world out of which his eschatological plotline may develop. He keeps the supernatural elements at a minimum and his research is put together better (his description of the Copper Scroll is pretty much accurate, for example). His action scenes are more realistic and have more punch. The characters are still pretty stock and cookie-cutter, but if The Copper Scroll hadn't been published by the religious-book outfit Tyndale House, there's no reason it couldn't sit on an airport bookstand alongside any dozen secularly-published thrillers. Maybe Rosenberg's apocalyptic worldview is off-target and maybe it isn't, but it's certainly no sillier than any idea Dan Brown has ever inflicted on paper and it's a better read anyway.
Original available here.
Another is that it's often very poorly written. Former political consultant Joel C. Rosenberg's The Last Jihad series largely overcomes the first problem and makes a decent enough stab at the second to rank it well above the industry standard "Left Behind" series. The Copper Scroll is the fourth book of the series, so this note may spoil some of the earlier books if you decide to read them.
Former presidential advisor Jon Bennett and Erin McCoy, his aide and also a CIA officer, have been able to marry each other without an international crisis wrecking the day. Their honeymoon, on the other hand...
The Bennetts find themselves caught in a murderous web of intrigue surrounding the words of the "Copper Scroll," found in the Qumran caves in the late 1940s along with the other Dead Sea Scrolls. An Israeli archaeologist believes he has keys to deciphering the scrolls mysterious directions to immense hidden treasure. Government leaders in Israel and the United States are interested, and the remaining leadership of areas devastated by a space-borne firestorm in the previous book are looking at the treasure for the resources it could give them in their recovery. Who will learn the Copper Scroll's secrets first, and what will the consequences be?
Rosenberg does a much better job than "Left Behind" authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins at creating a real world out of which his eschatological plotline may develop. He keeps the supernatural elements at a minimum and his research is put together better (his description of the Copper Scroll is pretty much accurate, for example). His action scenes are more realistic and have more punch. The characters are still pretty stock and cookie-cutter, but if The Copper Scroll hadn't been published by the religious-book outfit Tyndale House, there's no reason it couldn't sit on an airport bookstand alongside any dozen secularly-published thrillers. Maybe Rosenberg's apocalyptic worldview is off-target and maybe it isn't, but it's certainly no sillier than any idea Dan Brown has ever inflicted on paper and it's a better read anyway.
Original available here.
tomasthanes's review
3.0
This entire series is like Left Behind meets Tom Clancy. Subjectively, it seems like it's not quite as well written as Clancy, however, gratefully, there's no profanity to filter out.
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