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At times difficult to work through for a couple of reasons, but in the end a very rewarding read. The difficulties were some of the historical trivia. While fascinating in places (the descriptions of the tithes and taxes that the villages in Judea paid and how), they overwhelmed my reading of the "story" in other places (the architecture and layout of Caesarea). All the same, it was for the most part an interesting read and to my (somewhat limited) historical knowledge, a reasonably accurate description of life (and death). And that was the second reason. Uri's life had amazing highs and incredible lows. Near death, starvation, difficult family situation that pulled him down and kept him under, and losing in different ways the two people most important to him - his father while he was traveling, but not knowing it until he returned, and his eldest son to slavery. But Uri kept going all the way through his faith in the Eternal One changing and adjusting to the situation. He (or more precisely György Spiró also gives excellent witness to the first pogroms and manifestations of anti-semitism in the ancient world. Not much different that today. And the descriptions of the attitudes of Jews and non-Jews is still the same today.