Oleum

1st century d. C. The priests of the Eleazar lineage have for generations been in charge of supplying the sacred oil for the great Temple of Jerusalem. Ezra ben Fazael Eleazar is a young scribe, educated in law and well versed in the production of oil, perfumes and filters, and he is proud of his lineage and the life he leads. Until, betrayed by the Sadducees led by Josef ben Caiaphas, he was robbed on the Jericho road and sold as a slave. Become Jason of Seforis, from Caesarea Maritima, capital of Roman Judea, he will arrive in Rome where he will be bought by the wife of the Roman senator Marco Anneo Seneca. His masters, knowledgeable of his knowledge as olearius, will send him to his native Corduba to administer the immense latifundia of Baetica that has made them millionaires. There, Jason has two missions: the public one, which is to reorganize the battered oil production, and the secret one, to discover the causes of the disappearance of a non-negligible part of the precious liquid, which takes time without reaching Rome ... successfully these challenges, you can be manumitized and achieve precious freedom again. Oleum will take the reader from Pontius Pilate's Jerusalem and the great Temple where Pharisees and Sadducees face death, to the great olive groves of Betica passing through Corinth, the lavish imperial Rome and even fascinating Alexandria, in an adventure where, in In the midst of a plot of murders, slavery and hedonism, characters like Herod Agrippa and the beautiful princess Salomé, Pablo de Tarso and the same Jesus of Galilee accompany the young Ezra in their misadventures.