Q&A with Harry Freedman discussion

Please feel free to ask about how I went about researching and writing Jerusalem Imperilled.

My first attempt at a comment this topic went into inner cyber-space.

The question I asked is:

Did you have access to some non-public documents?

Lynn

Hi Lynn

I think the few documents that exist are in the public domain, I'm certainly not aware of any non-public ones. However I had the advantage of being able to read and understand the Jewish texts in their original language; so much gets lost in translation that research is always best done in the original, if possible.

That is great that you are able to read it in the original language. I agree they do get lost in translation. I also learned that sometimes things are extrapolated from the surrounding text yet because some words have more than one meaning even back then.

Lynn

Hi Harry,
Did you find that documents from different religions were contradictory to each other?
Col :)