Jesus whose other name was Joash is an exceptional book. It deals with the true story of Joash/Jesus, a historical personage and tragic ruler who according to the Hebrew records was the only surviving descendant of King David and Solomon. Fate was kind to him once but never more; for after the narrowly escaped the murderous hand of his grandmother Athaliah who used the death of her son Ahaziah to carry out her bloody crime known as the “Slaughter of the Innocents”, he became the tenth king of the Jews in Jerusalem – at only seven years of age. But forty years later he fell victim to the hostility of his house servants who accused him of killing the prophet Zechariah/John the Baptist….