The Dovekeepers
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End of the book question - SPOILER Loved the book but
Diane
Feb 08, 2015 08:48AM
I loved the book but I thought there was one twist that didn't quite work for me. What do you think? When Yael becomes Shirah and tells the story in Jerusalem about what happened in Masada, wouldn't the people who were Shirah's husbands people (with the blue garb) or her husband have been able to tell the Romans that she wasn't Shirah? Towards the end of the book those people had joined the Romans so they were around. I'm going to have to just go with if they saw her they new she was lying and they decided to keep her secret.
Hi Diane,
Good question. My take is that the Moabites (Shirah's husband's people) aren't necessarily going to have been involved with the Roman's interrogation of a prisoner, which is what Yael was at that point. As a foreign ally of the Romans, the Moabites would have been off in their own camp and wouldn't have a been involved with the business of the Roman commanders. Plus, a prisoner is a non-entity, and a woman is a non-entity on top of that -- so unless she loudly and publicly made claim of her relationship with her Moabite husband (and I don't recall that she did), they wouldn't have known or cared who she was.
SRW
Good question. My take is that the Moabites (Shirah's husband's people) aren't necessarily going to have been involved with the Roman's interrogation of a prisoner, which is what Yael was at that point. As a foreign ally of the Romans, the Moabites would have been off in their own camp and wouldn't have a been involved with the business of the Roman commanders. Plus, a prisoner is a non-entity, and a woman is a non-entity on top of that -- so unless she loudly and publicly made claim of her relationship with her Moabite husband (and I don't recall that she did), they wouldn't have known or cared who she was.
SRW
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