In the year 999, somewhere off the western coast of France, an Arab dhow heads for the distant city of Paris, where two passengers, a North African Jewish merchant and his Muslim trading partner, have important business. "Even though there was no reason why the Christian millennium should trouble Jews or Muslims sailing alone upon the universal ocean," says the narrator of Abraham B. Yehoshua's recent novel, A Journey to the End of the Millennium, "the Moroccan ship, advancing at the pace of a fast horse, seemed to have absorbed something of the new religious fervor radiating from the nearby Christian coast."
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机译：999年，一艘阿拉伯独桅帆船前往法国遥远的城市巴黎，那里是法国西海岸以外的地方，那里有两名乘客，一名北非犹太商人和他的穆斯林贸易伙伴，从事重要业务。亚伯拉罕·叶霍舒亚（Abraham B. Yehoshua）最近的小说《千禧年之旅》（A Journey to the Millennium of End）的叙述者说：“即使基督教千年没有理由让犹太人或穆斯林独自航行在大洋上，也没有任何理由。”以快马的步伐，似乎吸收了附近基督教海岸散发出的新的宗教热情。”
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