![]() Anti-Semitic? Most of its point of view characters are like Pontius Pilate, trying to maintain a civilized hold on Palestine when the locals don’t want the corrupting gifts of gender equality and abortions and electricity, and are willing to resort to terrorism to get their way.Īfter Ben Yusuf causes a riot to the world trade center of the Temple’s moneychanger’s court, the Romans feel justified in resorting to waterboarding to get life-saving information out of captured zealots whose names we know from New Testament studies. Dale has since moved to the UK, become a lawyer, and now turned all this personal history into a brilliant alternate history about the trial of Yeshua Ben Yusuf in 31 AD. ![]() The book also caused a storm of controversy for portraying historic anti-Semitic characters as, yes, the anti-Semites they were. Helen Dale’s first novel, The Hand that Signed the Paper, won Australia’s Miles Franklin Award she was the youngest recipient ever. ![]()
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