Written in the 1960s, The Source still stands as a definitive work on the history of the Jews, that is if you accept the plot as being dated from the Rock Hudson – Doris Day era of romance and simply a tool for delivering key concepts. More than just Jewish history from Abraham to the present, Michener captures the evolution of the relationship between God and man from the time when a single, inanimate God was invented 6,000 years ago to the present day conflict between religious and secular in Israel. A work of fiction soundly grounded in historical and archaeological fact. February 2010.