The four are Yael, Revka, Aziza, and Shirah. There are those who might consider this a hardship post, regarding doves as dirty, disgusting, filthy, and lice-ridden, or as rats with wings, but they are also a source of fertilizer, meat, eggs, and maybe a bit of hope. The four primary characters meet at Masada, where they are assigned to care for the doves. (The Monty Python crew used Josephus’s writings as well, for a very different purpose, in Life of Brian.) She uses the writings of Jewish historian Flavius Josephus as the foundation for her tale. On visiting the place itself Alice Hoffman was inspired to wonder about the experience of the women who had lived and died there.
A place of national pride for some, historical and archaeological controversy for many, a bit of Python mockery to others. It you want a reason, take this: We yearned for our portion of the sky.Masada, the word summons up images, war, Romans, Zealots, slaughter, mass suicide. We could not speak or cry, but when there was no choice we discovered we could fly. We were no different from the doves above us.
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