Bruce W. Longenecker's Lost Letters Of Perfamum

Bruce W. Longenecker’s book Lost Letters of Perfamum has been a delightful easy read. This book is both educational and easily entertaining. The book is a fictional account of letters discovered in the city of Pergamum that once belonged to Antipas, the martyr mentioned in Revelation 2:13 who died in Pergamum. These letters inspired what Longenecker produced which is to be although fictional but seems more of a narrative to the history that is going on. Longenecker’s Antipas was a Roman nobleman who in his younger days was blessed in a vast amount of land. For health reasons he left his business and hometown for Pergamum. Antipas was named for Herod Antipas, from whom his family benefited and for whom he maintains respect. Antipas is simply an upper-class Roman, with working to maintain and increase his standing position in society in the beginning of the book is talking with Calpernius about attending his show …show more content…
He has a high level of respect and his character also stands by what he says with great passion. Also the life change of Antipas is interesting and unless you know the life of Antipas before you have read the book it is exciting as from letter to letter you see his thoughts. A number of factors lead to his conversion over a period of time. He encounters Jesus through the Gospel that Luke gives him while they are writing due to Calpernius’ leave. His curiosity blossoms as he begings to question Luke, and like the passionate man of accuracy Luke answers accordingly. Antipas comes across some of the controversial faiths in some Christians he meets. He is also able to discern and reject a false version of Christianity. We then see Antipas make a choice to follow Jesus and surrender all he knows and has ever known as for his upbringing and the family name in society. We see that it is Luke who invests in a mans life and grows a relationship, then followed with the Gospel that seals Antipas