Dumachas and Sheba: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told

Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [nice tight copy, very slight bump to bottom front corner, no other discernible wear; jacket has a bit of extremely shallow insect-nibbling along bottom edge (virtually disappears inside new mylar jacket protector), faint semi-circular scuff mark on front panel, light handling wear]. Love story set in Jerusalem at the time of Jesus Christ. "Dumachas -- a fearless, passionate spokesman for independence -- had become a kind of king in the underworld of Jerusalem. Young, handsome, fiercely intelligent, he defended and challenged and inspired the oppressed of the city, daring them to hope and to fight for freedom. Rebellion for Dumachas would mean imprisonment at the hands of the Romans [and] separation from the extraordinary woman, called Sheba, who had been his lover since youth. It would end in spectacular death: on a cross at Calvary next to Jesus of Nazareth." (Oh, THAT Dumachas -- and I'll bet you thought he was just an impenitent thief.) Biblical revisionism at its most romantic. But what accounts for this book's extreme scarcity in the marketplace? Is there a Dumachas cult out there somewhere? .