The Galileans: A Novel Of Mary Magdalene (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
Joseph pushed aside the curtains and stepped out into a scene of bustling activity. The procurator’s own chair had brought him across the city of Caesarea to the harbor. As he stood beside it now, the sun gleamed on the golden eagles surmounting the standards at its corners, and the wind whipped the personal flag of the procurator, borne by a burly soldier of Pilate’s own guard. No one could doubt who ruled here—the stamp of Rome was upon everything—and for a moment Joseph was a little ashamed that he had given at least tacit approval of the conquerors by letting himself be carried in state, as it were, to the shipside. The chair had deposited Joseph almost at the foot of the gangplank leading up to the deck of the great merchant ship—called “round” to distinguish it from the vessels of war, which were called “long.” Protected by the great half moon-shaped quay of massive stones with which Herod the Great had transformed an open roadstead into a protected harbor, the great ship hardly rocked at all as it rested quietly against the wharf.
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