The Source

In the grand storytelling style that is his signature, James Michener dramatizes one of the most riveting and important develoopments in world civilization: the birth and full flowering of Judaism. Beginning with a group pf modern-day archaeologists digging at a site in Makor, Michener sweeps us back through time to every beginnings of the Jewish faith thousands of years before.

Here is entire history of the Jews: the life of the early Hebrews and how they were persecuted, the impact of Chrisianity, the Crusades, and the Spanish Inquisition, all the way to the founding of present-day Israel and the Middle East conflict. Through the eyes of the archaelogists - an Irish Catholic from Chicago, and Arab who lives in Israel, a Grman Jew, his Israeli Fiancée, and the wealthy American fiancing the dig - We experience the panorama of Jewish history, filled with passion, pain, and enormous fith.