The Interplay Between the Document and the Audience

I think the people who put this document together were guided by their aesthetic taste and their conscience. And so even if at the level of detail there is political intriguend politics, say, with regard to the ascendancy of israel, when you step away from it, becomes something that's more universal and escapes from that. How that happened, i don't know. It isn't only that these books were assembled and written, it was that they were preserved and remembered. To me, that means they have an affinity with the structure of memory. I mean, how does thi story last ten thousand years? Unless it's the kind of story you can remember....