In this episode we go east to Isfahan to find redemption.

The Eternal Jew’s Tale Messiah Tractates, a Montage Abu Isa Fragments

In Isfahan during Marwan’s reign (tho which Marwan we don’t know), up rose *Abu Isa*, a Jew who was born as **Eshakh ben Ya’kub.** He was called by the Lor to restore Israel and bring the Truth to the whole world. *-* Hebrew for father of Jesus; **-** Arabic for Isaac son of Jacob

Hear. This one was illiterate and yet declared prophecies. The Lor inspired him directly not by study and memorization, and not by repetition of what he heard, but direct and immediate hearing and knowing of God’s spoken Word. A son of woman, all natural, and yet there is many a true account that when he began to speak to a crowd he towered taller than an ancient oak, his body engulfed in golden flames. Or that there he would sit upon his horse like any man, but then suddenly his horse would neigh, would rear and leap and like an osprey fly him away, circling high and higher still and then returning, gliding to earth and once again clip-clopping in the square.

Persian Jews gloried in him, while Muslims staggered back in awe, and the Byzantines were terrified.

But night tremors undermine his will…

… am I really the precursor?…

and there in the plaza of Rhages, dancing, some........

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