![]() The story largely focuses on the human experience of the people who have inhabited the same little plot of land on our planet for nearly innumerable generations, detailing the evolution of their culture, the challenges they had to face, the philosophies they had to debate, and the joys they all celebrated. ![]() The team goes deeper and deeper beneath the soil until they reach a layer of bedrock, and from there on out we are treated to the development of Judaism over the course of thousands of years, right from the point of its genesis up until modern times. The book is framed in the form of a novel, following an archaeological dig in Israel taking place in modern times (which is to say, the 1960s when this book was first published). Michener‘s The Source deserves some more recognition, delving as deep as humanly possibly into its history. Today, most of us only have a cursory knowledge of its recent past, which is why I believe James A. ![]() ![]() What’s more, it seems certain points on Earth act as magnets for incessant and bloody struggles, the Holy Land being one of the more prominent ones. Michener Begins the Long ExcursionĬonflict seems to be inherent to human nature, fallowing virtually every civilization over the course of their history, and it doesn’t seem like it will ever leave us. ![]()
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