The four embody aspects of not only femininity and feminism but also spiritual expression, Jewish tradition, and - in the biggest picture - the world’s never-ending cycle of peace and war and peace, among both nations and families.

Shirah, who excels at spells and medicine, saw her daughter, Aziza, fight alongside men as a warrior. It’s hard to attack THE DOVEKEEPERS on this, given the number of works out there where the opposite is true, but it certainly doesn’t paint as complex and fully fleshed out a world as it could. Yael, of the flame-colored hair, grew up with a father who despised her because her mother died in childbirth Revka survived the killing of her husband and daughter and raised her grandsons. Beautiful, harrowing, a major contribution to twenty-first century. And from that extraordinary possibility, the author imagines four Hoffman Women - Yael, Revka, Shirah, and Aziza - each of whom was a dovekeeper in her day (the Masada dovecote remains an awe-inspiring tourist attraction). The Dovekeepers Narrated by: Aya Cash, Jessica Hecht, Tovah Feldshuh Critic Reviews. CBS' two-part adaptation of Alice Hoffman’s best-selling novel is a cheap, chintzy adventure. Based on this tragic and iconic event, Hoffmans novel is a spellbinding tale. The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman’s most ambitious and mesmerizing novel: striking.Hoffman grounds her expansive, intricately woven, and deepest new novel in biblical history, with a devotion and seriousness of purpose (Entertainment Weekly). Josephus reported that two women and five children survived. According to the ancient historian Josephus, two women and five children survived. TV Review: ‘The Dovekeepers’ By Brian Lowry CBS Designed to play as a moving adaptation of Alice Hoffman’s bestseller, The Dovekeepers is more of a wounded duck. Hoffman takes her inspiration from the events that occurred at the Israeli mountaintop fortress of Masada almost 2,000 years ago when, according to first-century historian Flavius Josephus, some 900 Jewish rebels held out for months under Roman attack, then set their storerooms on fire and committed mass suicide rather than face subjugation.

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