THE LEGACY OF SOLOMON
the Temple of the Jews
a novel
by
John Francis Kinsella
Banksterbooks
LONDON-PARIS-NEW YORK
The Legacy of Solomon
(revised)
Copyright John Francis Kinsella 2016
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Tilla, Selma, Eléonore, Noé, Xaver, Elyas, Adéle & Camille
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
The water, why I do not know, was unusually cold, so that we could only bathe in it in the afternoon when the sun had stood on it a long time. As for the hill, it was a favorite walk of half an hour: a height called, certainly from the old days and most inappropriately, Mount Zion.
Thomas Mann ‘Doctor Faustus’ 1947
Contents
1 A Jesuit
2 San Francisco
3 Rue Montbelliard
4 The Underground Cisterns
5 An Outline
6 A Little Researchers
8 Purification in the Temple
9 The Trust
10 Hertzfeld
11 Tel-Aviv
12 The High Priests
13 de Lussac
14 The Promised Land
15 Jerusalem
16 The Wall
17 Archaeology in the Bedrock of the Haram
18 The Ramp
19 Religion and Archaeology
20 The Temple
21 A Documentary
22 Sacrifice
23 A Visit to London
24 The Palestine Exploration Fund
25 New Discoveries
26 Menorah Press
27 Seville
28 Caesarea
29 The Hittites
30 Bethlehem
31 The Aqueducts
32 Minimalist or Maximalist
33 Petra and the Nabateans
34 UCLA
35 Rhodes
36 Syria
37 A Secret Site
38 Persians
39 The Palace of King David
40 The Bulla
41 Masada
42 The Origins of the Wailing Wall
43 Cuneiform
44 Manipulation
45 The Destruction of Jerusalem
46 The Exodus
47 David and Solomon
48 A Question of Interpretation
49 Exploration
50 Myths and Legends
51 Muslims
52 Akhenaton
53 The Koran
54 A Jesuit in Angkor
55 Philistine and Babylonian Gods
56 Ancient Egypt
57 The First Egyptians
58 Texts
59 The Christian Bible
60 Sects
61 The Covenant
62 King David
63 An Incident at the Wall
65 The Pool of Siloam
66 Palestine
67 The Archaeology of Jerusalem
68 Folklore and Legends
69 Tel-Aviv University
70 Aisha Barghut
71 Gaza
72 Flight from Gaza
73 Fighting Breaks Out
74 Sympathy and Identity
75 The War Against Terrorism
76 Stranded
77 Reason
78 Willing Helpers
79 The Legacy of Solomon
80 Another Theory
81 Aliyah
82 The Wandering Jew
83 Paris
84 On a Bridge
Acknowledgements
Other books by the author
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A Jesuit
And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Nietzsche