He appears now and then in Ana’s life until an argument with Mattias sees him banished from the house. Ana’s adopted brother, Judas (yep, that one) is a Zealot and would rather hang out with “radicals who agitated against Rome” then settle down and get married. Like Ana, she is educated and becomes a mentor and confidante to Ana. She was accused of murdering her husband and her daughter was taken away.
Yaltha, her aunt, has returned after being exiled in Alexandria. She begged her father for tutors, ink and papyrus – she wanted to study and learn but her aspirations embarrassed her father and infuriated her mother. Her father, Matthais, is head scribe and counselor to Herod Antipas.Īna taught herself to read Hebrew at the age of eight … and Aramaic, and Greek, and Latin. Ana is 14 and has grown up in a well to do household in Sepphoris (central Galilee).
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