The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words (1000 BCE – 1492) by Simon Schama
English | December 11th, 2013 | ISBN: 0060539208, 0060539186 | 512 pages | True EPUB | 40.98 MB
It spans the millennia and the continents – from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It takes you to unimagined places: to a Jewish kingdom in the mountains of southern Arabia; a Syrian synagogue glowing with radiant wall paintings; the palm groves of the Jewish dead in the Roman catacombs. And its voices ring loud and clear, from the severities and ecstasies of the Bible writers to the love poems of wine bibbers in a garden in Muslim Spain.