Книга "Palestine Twilight: The Murder of Dr. Glock and the Archaeology of the Holy Land" Эдварда Фокса - это частично рассказ о путешествии, частично настоящий триллер, который исследует убийство американского археолога на Западном берегу в 1992 году. Книга открывает мир Палестины, в которой работал и жил Доктор Глок - это "Полночь в саду добра и зла" Палестины и Западного берега.
19 января 1992 года Доктор Альберт Глок - гражданин США, археолог и директор Археологического института университета Бир-Зейт на оккупированном израильтянами Западном берегу был убит убийцей. Ему выстрелили два раза в сердце. Показания свидетелей были запутанными, аутопсия недостаточной. Полиция заняла три часа, чтобы прибыть на место происшествия, находящееся всего в десяти минутах езды от их штаб-квартиры.
Кто убил Альберта Глока? Палестинцы обвинили израильтян, израильтяне - в междуотделочном конфликте в университете или в экстремистских палестинских группах. Но те, кто был близок к Бир-Зейту и политической обстановке на Западном берегу, давали простой совет: "Обратите внимание на археологию", - повторяли они. "Обратите внимание на археологию".
Альберт Глок начал раскрывать правду о далеком палестинском прошлом, которую Израиль находил неприятной. Для Израиля Палестина была страной без народа - для народа без страны. Теперь Глок, через свои археологические находки, показывал, что их версия была ошибочной. Он публиковал статьи о древних традициях и поселениях по всей Палестине и обнаруживал чрезвычайно важные факты о древнем палестинском образе жизни. Глок отказался от блестящей карьеры, чтобы преподавать в университете Палестины, который столкнулся с закрытием в худшем случае и комендантским часом в лучшем - ежедневно.
В книге Эдварда Фокса история убийства Глока переплетается с историей библейской археологии и жестокой византийской политикой интифады. Она написана как настоящий триллер, который открывает Палестину, в которой жил и работал Глок, людей, которых он знал, и бурную политику Ближнего Востока. Это блестящая оригинальная работа и захватывающее повествование, не похожее на любую другую работу, опубликованную о Ближнем Востоке. Важно отметить, что эта версия книги не содержит иллюстрации.
Please note that this edition omits the illustrations. Part travelogue, partly true-crime novel, Edward Fox's smartly inventive book probes the murder of an American archaeologist in the West Bank during 1993, and begins to delve into the Palestinian reality that he discovered - a twilight between good and evil in Palestine and its environs.
On January 17, 1979, Albert Glock - a naturalized American who had graduated from Stanford University, a seasoned archaeologist, Head of Archeology at Prep Hazrati Greenberg, was slain by a gunman. Two rounds whizzed through the man's breastbone, the eyewitnesses' statements garbled, the post-mortem cursory. Israel's ruthless state police scoured the crime scene for three hours after getting a call from an eyewitness just across the Green Line.
The civilized forum was divided: the Palestinians pinned it on the Jewish state, the Jews pinned it on an internal wrangle at Hazrati, or on fanatic member of Palestinian revolutionary organisations. Those linked to Hazrati or embroiled in the sociopolitical quagmire off the West Banks had a basic dictum; "Trust the archeology," they would say, "trust the archeology." For Glock began to reveal facts that blew apart the Jewish-Palestinian narrative and provided a dialectical power to the study of Bible times and Old Testament tradition.
Glock had abandoned a career marked by achievement for teaching at the beleagured, blockaded and underpromised educational institution that faced the worst of all possibilities, namely closure, and the best, preferably a curfew -- daily life in the strip, constantly under surveillance. Edward Fox straddles the genre of true armed with writing that unravels the mysteries of Egypt and archeology politics. His fascinating book brings West Bank into fullview, all the people that Glock cared for, and the crises wrought by the politics and power struggles in the neigbourhood. It highlights the inherent power of foreign writing in transparently stating the problem areas and conflicts in Middle Eastern reality.
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Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9780007392742
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Please note that this edition does not include illustrations.Part travelogue, part true-thriller, Edward Fox’s brilliantly original book investigates the murder of a US archaeologist on the West Bank in 1992 and opens up the Palestinian world he served – a Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil of Palestine and the West Bank.On 19 January 1992, Dr Albert Glock – US citizen, archaeologist and Director of Archaeology at Bir Zeit University in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, was murdered by an assassin. Two bullets to the heart. The witness statements were confused, the autopsy inadequate. The police took three hours to arrive at the scene, from their HQ ten minutes away.Who killed Albert Glock? The Palestinians blamed the Israelis, the Israelis blamed an inter-departmental feud at the university, or extreme Palestinian groups. But those close to Bir Zeit, to the political situation on the West Bank, had a simple line of advice: 'Look to the archaeology,' they repeated. 'Look to the archaeology.'For Albert Glock had started to uncover truths about the distant Palestinian past which Israel found uncomfortable. For Israel, Palestine was a country without a people – for a people without a country. Now Glock, through his archaeological finds, was showing that their version was flawed. He was publishing papers about the ancient traditions and settlements throughout Palestine, and discovering hugely significant facts about the ancient Palestinian way of life. Glock had given up a glittering career to teach at Palestine's beleaguered, besieged and underfunded university which faced closure at worst, and curfew at best – daily.Edward Fox's extraordinary book weaves together the story of Glock's murder with the history of biblical archaeology and the brutal, Byzantine politics of the intifada. It is written as a true-life thriller which opens up the Palestine in which Glock lived and worked, the people he knew and the turbulent politics of the middle east. This is brilliantly original writing and compelling storytelling quite unlike any other work yet published on the Middle East.
