The Source

James A. Michener

Fawcett Crest, 1965 - Fiction - 1088 pages

In the grand storytelling style that is his signature, James Michener sweeps us back through time to the very beginnings of the Jewish faith, thousands of years ago. Through the predecessors of four modern men and women, we experience the entire colorful history of the Jews, including the life of the early Hebrews and their persecutions, the impact of Christianity, the Crusades, and the Spanish Inquisition, all the way to the founding of present-day Israel and the Middle-East conflict.
"A sweeping chronology filled with excitement."
THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

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User Review  - saturnloft - LibraryThing

Artifacts found at an archaeological site in Israel provide the foundations for a series of fictional snapshots into the region's history. The time-span covered is ambitious in the usual Michener ...

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User Review  - herbcat - LibraryThing

Good job by the author in trying to collect rabbinic thought and philosophy and tie and contrast that to other religions and gods. Lots of new understanding for me. The first half of the book is very, very slow, and the book is long.

Contents

• The Tell: 1
• The Bee Eater 77: 76
• Of Death and Life: 128
• An Old Man and His God 165: 164
• Psalm of the Hoopoe Bird: 233
• The Voice of Gamer: 323
• In the Gymnasium: 365
• King of the Jews: 413
• Yigal and His Three Generals: 445
• The Law: 496
• A Day in the Life of a Desert Rider: 593
• Volkmar: 635
• The Fires of Ma Coeur 693: 692
• The Saintly Men of Safed: 751
• Twilight of an Empire: 860
• Rebbe Itzik and the Sabra 919: 953
• The Tell: 1007

About the author

James A. Michener was one of the world's most popular writers, the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Tales of the South Pacific, the bestselling novels The Source, Hawaii, Alaska, Chesapeake, Centennial, Texas, Caribbean, and Caravans, and the memoir The World Is My Home. Michener served on the advisory council to NASA and the International Broadcast Board, which oversees the Voice of America. Among dozens of awards and honors, he received America's highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1977, and an award from the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities in 1983 for his commitment to art in America. Michener died in 1997 at the age of ninety.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Source; Volume 995 of A Fawcett crest book; Fawcett Crest : fiction
• Author: James A. Michener
• Edition: illustrated, reprint, reissue
• Publisher: Fawcett Crest, 1965
• ISBN: 0449211479, 9780449211472
• Length: 1088 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Historical