fantasy literature The 2,000-Year-Old Women March 11, 2019 Two of the most highly praised novels of 2018, Dara Horn’s Eternal Life and Sarah Perry’s Melmoth, feature a Jewish woman born in ancient Judea who still walks the earth today. The trope is a feminine twist on the legend of the Wandering Jew. Read the essay at the Jewish Review of Books. Share this:TwitterFacebookTumblrEmailPrintLike this:Like Loading... Related #Charles Maturin#Dara Horn#gothic#Melmoth#Sarah Perry#Wandering Jew Post navigation ← Does a 350-page Comic Book About Herzl Avoid the Pitfalls of the Graphic Novel? Harold Bloom’s Anxiety of C. S. Lewis → About Michael View all posts by Michael → Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here... Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Email (required) (Address never made public) Name (required) Website You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change ) Cancel Connecting to %s Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Basic HTML allowed.