Vessel: A Portrait of Noah and His Descendants - Paperback

by Jim Lockey (Author)

Set in the few years immediately after the global flood of Judeo-Christian scripture. Vessel is told from dual perspectives of the pious Noah and rebellious son Ham. The story follows Noah's family as they try to understand a new world, question the God that destroyed the one that came before, and discover that the biggest threat to their survival has been brought with them aboard the ark. A novel about the limits of family, faith, and morality. What would it be like to survive an apocalypse and how would that affect the way you understood the world and your place in it? This novel invites us to view a family in philosophical turmoil as they attempt to work out how to go on living after God destroys the world. How should they relate to this God? Why should they have been spared? Steeped in in-depth historical and scriptural research, readers will be immersed in a world with a moral outlook vastly different to our own. Imagine being tasked with building a society from nothing. As the family struggle to find their way into the future they find themselves wrestling with the past and facing existential questions about just what it means to be human.Everybody thinks they know the story of Noah, the boat full of animals and the colourful rainbow. It has become a fairy-tale we tell our children. This story attempts to return readers to the tale with fresh eyes, to re-assess a mysterious and foundational human story and see what it says about us as a species, and as descendants of this story.This book contains mature themesThis paperback edition is printed in beautiful 6x9 format with a soft matte cover