The Last Watchman of Old Cairo

by Michael David Lukas

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An indisputable source text for the Old Testament, without hint of error or innovation, the Ezra Scroll would be the greatest archeological discovery of the century, if

The magic of the Ezra Scroll, if there was any, resided in its possibility, in the constellation of stories circling around it. And the beating heart of any story was an unanswerable question. 15 “Have I shown you my letter, for The Times?”

“The writer, like the historian, lends a meaning to the past but, contrary to the latter, he destroys the past by giving it form.”