'The Dovekeepers:' A book reviewEarlier review noted here.
Published: Sunday, October 02, 2011, 10:39 AM
Star-Ledger Entertainment Desk By Star-Ledger Entertainment Desk
The Dovekeepers
Alice Hoffman
Scribner, 504 pp., $27.99
Reviewed by Sherryl Connelly
The ancient historian Josephus wrote that he learned the story of Masada from two women who had escaped as the Romans breached the walls of the desert stronghold in 73 CE to declare victory over the corpses of 900 Jewish men, women and children. They had committed suicide rather than submit. Recent archaeological findings appear to contradict what Josephus recorded, but Alice Hoffman embraces the account and the woman who gave it in what may be her master work, “The Dovekeepers.”
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Monday, October 03, 2011
Another review of Hoffman, "The Dovekeepers" (Masada novel)
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