All of
my notes and highlighted parts of this book got deleted somehow and that’s
really disappointing because I use those as my guide to make these posts and to
help me remember the most interesting parts of the book. I’m just realizing now
how important this post-book reflection is for me now that I can’t really do
it. There were a ton of interesting things in this book and I guess now I just
need to read some more on the same subject. This really sucks though because this is one of my favorite books I've read in a long time.
I’ll
just write that my favorite parts of the book were the era before the
destruction of the Second Temple, which I want to learn more about, the
discussion of the creation of difference between Judaism and Christianity in the
fourth century, and the final chapter about the last hundred years of Judaism
in Spain. The book has a really good narrative and feels like a novel a lot of
the time. The best and most interesting characters in my opinion were Nehemiah,
Shmuel ibn Naghera (if I’m spelling that right), and Maimonides. It was a
really great book and I wish I could’ve written more about it. There is a
volume two about more recent years that I want to check out soon.
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