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My name is Naam. I am the son of Jonathan and Keziah. In the following text, I will narrate my story and my family’s activities during the last part of David’s reign in Jerusalem and during Solomon’s reign. My mother wrote the first two books in this series. In her first book, The Jerusalem Academy, she writes about how The Royal Epic (Genesis) was compiled by my father and his fellow scribes at The Jerusalem Academy. In her second book, The Minority Report, she focused on my father’s poem, The Rebel Job. In this third book, I will continue our story and include our friends who lived and worked at The Jerusalem Academy. Also, I will relate experiences from my life that illustrate the central point in The Rebel Job: there is no justice.

At the age of twenty I became a teacher in the academy where I was able to continue the work and interests of my father and mother, plus my own special interest in all things Egyptian. Also, I was fortunate to have the help of a small group of teachers and friends who were not bound by old traditions. Old traditions are important, but they must be sifted. At The Jerusalem Academy we rejected some traditions while we rescued others. All of this was done in the context of the international scene and with the aim of moving toward a new future. We had the desire and ability to extend our horizons, but after the death of King David, his heir, King Solomon, instituted policies that enslaved our people and proved once again that there is no justice.