I am the living World expert today, fulfilling Doctor Anderson's mission to bring the legend of these extra-scriptural international legendary characters up-to-date. Funded by twenty years of Guggenheim Fellowships, this book will remain the definitive personal view-point of 2,000 years of oral and written tradition in prose, poetry, and examples of pictoral art, music, and film. My twenty years of literary property development is solely due to his thorough and thoughtful book (I self-publish screenplays on ISBN 1-895507-).

My Masters thesis was on the symbolism of the Old Man in Chaucer's "Pardoner's Tale" and this particular book contributed a great deal in my understanding of the legend of the Wandering Jew. It is completely thorough and wonderfully written.