Big Fisherman
The Big Fisherman by Lloyd C. Douglas, Boston Hougton Mifflin Company, 1948. The big Galilean fisherman, who is Simon Peter, the Apostle, is not introduced until the fifth chapter of this book. In the first hundred pages the author succeeds to interest the reader in the conflict and hatred existing between the wandering, wilderness-loving Arabians and their Jewish neighbors living in the cities of Palestine. Fearing Rome, King Herod schemed an alliance between the Jews and the Arabs and...