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Author : Steven Bayme
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0881255548
Author : Sol Scharfstein
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0881255602
The early history of the Jewish people is told through a collection of short essays, beginning with the first Hebrews, Abraham and Sarah, in about 1900 B.C.E., through 1492 when the Jews were expelled from Spain. Includes charts, photographs, and maps, with timelines and a chronology.
Author : Gerald McDermott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1683594614
How Jewish is Christianity? The question of how Jesus' followers relate to Judaism has been a matter of debate since Jesus first sparred with the Pharisees. The controversy has not abated, taking many forms over the centuries. In the decades following the Holocaust, scholars and theologians reconsidered the Jewish origins and character of Christianity, finding points of continuity. Understanding the Jewish Roots of Christianity advances this discussion by freshly reassessing the issues. Did Jesus intend to form a new religion? Did Paul abrogate the Jewish law? Does the New Testament condemn Judaism? How and when did Christianity split from Judaism? How should Jewish believers in Jesus relate to a largely gentile church? What meaning do the Jewish origins of Christianity have for theology and practice today? In this volume, a variety of leading scholars and theologians explore the relationship of Judaism and Christianity through biblical, historical, theological, and ecclesiological angles. This cutting-edge scholarship will enrich readers' understanding of this centuries-old debate.
Author : Mordechai Katz
Publisher : Mesorah Publications
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Judaism
ISBN : 1578195179
What does the Torah say that makes it relevant to today? How can we understand the mitzvos? Why should I believe? Why be Jewish? What does a Jew have to do? Is science an enemy of Judaism?JEP has answers. For decades, the Jewish Education Prog
Author : Moshe Rosman
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781909821125
Moshe Rosman cogently and critically presents the considerations that must be brought to bear on the writing of Jewish history in the light of post-modernist thinking.
Author : Rabbi Benjamin Blech
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101198667
You're no idiot, of course. You know that Judaism began with Abraham and that Moses led the children out of slavery in Egypt. But when it comes to knowing who Elijah, Esther, and Judah Maccabee were, and their significance to Judaism, you feel like you've been wandering in the desert for 40 years. Don't feel Jewish guilt just yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Jewish History and Culture provides you with a complete, authoritative account of the Jewish people—from Abraham, Moses, and King David to Golda Meir, Menachem Begin, and Yitzhak Rabin.
Author : Martin Goodman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691197104
"Judaism is one of the oldest religions in the world, and it has preserved its distinctive identity despite the extraordinarily diverse forms and beliefs it has embodied over the course of more than three millennia. A History of Judaism provides the first truly comprehensive look in one volume at how this great religion came to be, how it has evolved from one age to the next, and how its various strains, sects, and traditions have related to each other. In this magisterial and elegantly written book, Martin Goodman takes readers from Judaism's origins in the polytheistic world of the second and first millennia BCE to the temple cult at the time of Jesus. He tells the stories of the rabbis, mystics, and messiahs of the medieval and early modern periods and guides us through the many varieties of Judaism today. Goodman's compelling narrative spans the globe, from the Middle East, Europe, and America to North Africa, China, and India. He explains the institutions and ideas on which all forms of Judaism are based, and masterfully weaves together the different threads of doctrinal and philosophical debate that run throughout its history."--
Author : Gila Gevirtz
Publisher : Behrman House, Inc
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : 0874418380
Adult readers will appreciate this epic story of the Jewish people rendered as a concise, accessible, and engaging narrative. This lively and accessible volume presents the full range of Jewish history, from biblical to contemporary times. Adapted from the two-volume award-winning work, The History of the Jewish People by Professors Jonathan Sarna and Jonathan Krasner, this single volume treats readers to a fast-paced account of Jewish history that is grounded in scholarship and brimming with information on topics as diverse as the development of Christianity beyond its Jewish roots into a new religion and the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language. The text is filled with colorful anecdotal detail about Jewish communities throughout history and around the world, such as how Passover was celebrated on the Civil War battlefield and the origins of Beta Israel, the Ethiopian-Jewish community. The broad array of graphics-16 maps, 12 charts, 27 timelines, and more than 100 photographs--is sure to engage readers and enrich their appreciation and understanding of Jewish history.
Author : Steven Weitzman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691191652
The scholarly quest to answer the question of Jewish origins The Jews have one of the longest continuously recorded histories of any people in the world, but what do we actually know about their origins? While many think the answer to this question can be found in the Bible, others look to archaeology or genetics. Some skeptics have even sought to debunk the very idea that the Jews have a common origin. Steven Weitzman takes a learned and lively look at what we know—or think we know—about where the Jews came from, when they arose, and how they came to be. He sheds new light on the assumptions and biases of those seeking answers—and the religious and political agendas that have made finding answers so elusive. Introducing many approaches and theories, The Origin of the Jews brings needed clarity and historical context to this enduring and divisive topic.
Author : Sol Scharfstein,Dorcas Gelabert
Publisher : Ktav Pub Incorporated
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0881255459
Records the many stories of the journey of the Jewish people through history
Author : Ken Spiro
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780757324062
In pursuit of an answer to the question of what would constitute a perfect world, author Ken Spiro questioned more than 1,500 people of various backgrounds and religions. His findings revealed six core elements: Respect for human life; peace and harmony; justice and equality; education; family; and social responsibility. He then set off on a journey to find out why these were such common goals across cultural, economic, social and racial lines, and in the process, traced the history of the development of world religions, values and ethics. As a rabbi, he paid particular attention to how Judaism impacted, and was influenced by, the course of these developments. The result is a highly readable and well-documented book about the origins of values and virtues in Western civilization as influenced by the Greeks, Romans, Christians, Muslims and, most significantly, the Jews. The history of religion, presented in Spiro’s highly readable style, is a fascinating and timely subject, especially in today’s volatile religious climate. Spiro divides his book into five engaging parts: Where the Quality of Mercy Was Not Strained: The World of Greece and Rome Against the Grain: The Jewish View A Father to Many Nations: Abraham and the Implications of Monotheism With Sword and Fire: The Rise of Christianity and Islam The New Promised Land: Impact of Judaism on Liberal Democracies Readers of all faiths will find that the elements of a perfect world can only be achieved by a common understanding of our mutual backgrounds and that our diverse religions are all merely branches growing from one single tree.
Author : David Vital
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0199246815
This history of the Jews in Europe examines the role played by the Jews themselves, across the whole of Europe, during the century and a half leading up to the birth of the nation of Israel, and the state-sponsored genocide of the Holocaust.
Author : Ken Spiro
Publisher : Brand Nu Words
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Jews
ISBN : 1568715323
"The miracle and meaning of Jewish history."
Author : Marc Rosenstein
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780827613836
Examining the entire span of Jewish history by focusing on thirty pivotal moments in the Jewish people’s experience from biblical times through the present—essentially the most important events in the life of the Jewish people—Turning Points in Jewish History provides “the big picture”: both a broad and a deep understanding of the Jewish historical experience. Zeroing in on eight turning points in the biblical period, four in Hellenistic-Roman times, five in the Middle Ages, and thirteen in modernity, Marc J. Rosenstein elucidates each formative event with a focused history, a timeline, a primary text with commentary as an intimate window into the period, and a discussion of its legacy for subsequent generations. Along the way he candidly analyzes various controversies and schisms arising from Judaism’s encounters with power, powerlessness, exile, messianism, rationalism, mysticism, catastrophe, modernity, nationalism, feminism, and more. The book’s thirty distinct and logically connected events lend themselves to a full course or to customized classes on specific turning points. Discussion questions for every chapter (some in print, more online) facilitate reflection and continuing conversation.
Author : Charles Foster Kent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781135779993
First published in 2007. This classic work explores the seminal early periods of Jewish history. The destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. by the army of Nebuchadnezzar marks a radical turning point in the life of the people of Jehovah, for then the history of the Hebrew state and monarchy ends, and the Jewish history, the records of experiences, not of a nation but of the scattered, oppressed remnants of the Jewish people, begins.
