Cliff Davis’s Reviews > Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews > Status Update

The theme of this book, treating on the long and tortured relationship of Christianity with Judaism, is that none of the tragedy HAD to happen. Over and over again, other roads were available, but not taken.

Perhaps nowhere do the bells of "it could have been," ring more sadly than in Iberia -- today's Spain and Portugal -- where, for a time, "it was." There's even a name for that moment in time: Convivençiá.