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Sep 30, 2011 · THE SOURCE. A NOVEL. by James A. Michener ‧RELEASE DATE: May 24, 1965. bookshelf. shop now. amazon. This endless diorama of gods, graves and a scholar begins at the archaeological site of an American, Cullinan, at Makor (in old Hebrew- The Source). Michener, whose globe-trotting (Hawaii, Afghanistan, etc.) makes him a sort of Lowell Thomas of ...
James Michener's The Source is a sweeping epic that spans thousands of years of human history in the Middle East. With his signature attention to detail and vivid prose, Michener takes readers on a journey that begins with the dawn of civilization and ends with the modern state of Israel.
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Mar 6, 2012 · The Source, by James A. Michener, is a thick tome spinning an intricate web of fictional stories spread out through the realistic history of a fictional tel 1 called Makor (Hebrew for ‘source’) near Acre, in what is now Israel.
The Source. Written by James A. Michener Review by Alycia Harris. When archaeologists begin uncovering relics in Tell Makor, they are also uncovering the lives of countless people who went before them. Slowly the archaeologists dig deeper and deeper past one find after another, backwards in history.
Jun 15, 2023 · In the introduction to the 2013 reprint of James Michener’s The Source, Steve Berry (an author himself), explains why he’s grateful that Michener wrote most of his novels before the Internet age narrowed our collective interest in “thousand-page epics” involving “hundreds of characters.”
The Source is a historical novel by James A. Michener published in 1965. It is a survey of the history of the Jewish people and the land of Israel from pre-monotheistic days through the birth of the modern State of Israel and up until 1964.
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Sep 22, 2013 · First published in 1965, “The Source”, by James A Michener, is part of the pool made by the endless number of books written by mankind about God and religion. And yet, it is different in a way that it hardly discusses God and Religion as we are accustomed to see it portrayed in literature.
