Short Story
Eli’s Coming
- by Catherine Wells
- in Analog, March/April 2017
Eli ben Aryeh, the founder and head of Time Sharing Adventures, is aiming for the year 10 BCE, but he misses by 75 years and ends up instead at the Romans siege of Masada where he is mistaken for the prophet Elijah.
But they hadn’t existed at the time of Herod the Great. And they hadn’t captured Masada until—what, 66 CE?