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Greenwood Professional Guides in School Librarianship, #62: History, Religion, and Meaning: American Reflections on the Holocaust and Israel
by Julius Simon  Publisher Comments The Holocaust continues to be a defining event for understanding not only the course of history during the 20th century but the course of human events in general. Perhaps the most contentious issue is that of how the Holocaust continues to be understood,...
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The Jesus Gene: A Messianic Bloodline, the Jews and Freemasonry
by Patrick M. L. Byrne Publisher Comments THE JESUS GENE The Jesus Gene has been comprehensively researched and the authors have over 50 years experience of Freemasonry between them as well as senior Masonic rank in most orders. The Jesus Gene breaks entirely new ground and confirms...
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Jewish Fundamentalism in Comparative Perspective: Religion, Ideology, and the Crisis of Modernity (New Perspectives on Jewish Studies)
by Laurence J. Silberstein Publisher Comments Among the issues examined are the characteristics that link fundamentalist movements within various religious traditions; the study of fundamentalist motifs as they appear specifically in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; the relationship between...
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The Commerce of the Sacred: Meditation of the Divine Among Jews in the Greco-Roman World
by Jack N Lightstone Publisher Comments Jack Lightstone's "Commerce of the Sacred" remains an original and influential contribution to Judaic studies. Lightstone offers critical perspectives on the practices and beliefs of Greco-Roman Jews who lived outside of Palestine and beyond rabbinic...
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From the Maccabees To the Mishnah (2ND 06 Edition)
by Shaye J.d. Cohen Publisher Comments In this new edition of a best-selling classic, Shaye Cohen offers a thorough analysis of Judaism's development from the early years of the Roman Empire to the formative period of rabbinic Judaism. Cohen's synthesis of religion, literature, and history...
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Essential Papers on Jewish Culture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy (Essential Papers on Jewish Studies)
by David B Ruderman Publisher Comments This book represents a sample of the most penetrating Jewish movements....
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Vetus Testamentum, Supplements #110: Stfer Mahnr: Essays in Honour of Adrian Schenker Offered by Editors of Biblia Hebraica Quinta
by Adrian (edt) Schenker Publisher Comments This volume contains essays in the textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible, contributed by editors of the Biblia Hebraica Quinta. The studies range in scope from assessments of a book's textual situation to investigations of details in the Leningrad Codex....
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Ecclesiastes (JPS Bible Commentary)
by Michael V. Fox Publisher Comments The Book of Ecclesiastes in part of the "wisdom literature" of the Bible. It concerns itself with universal philosophical questions, rather than events in the history of Israel and in the Hebrews' covenant with God. Koheleth, the speaker in this book...
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Jews of Spain and Portugal and the Inquisition
by Frederic David Mocatta Mocatta Publisher Comments The position of the Jews in Spain and Portugal during a greater part of the middle ages forms and exceptionally bright spot in their dark and checkered history. And although it became evident, after a time, that their prosperity, attracting, as it did...
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Judas Maccabaeus and the Jewish War of Independence
by Claude Reignier Conder Publisher Comments 1879. This is the author's account of the story of the life of Judas Maccabaeus, which he considers one of the most important episodes in Jewish history, as it explains how the nation first developed and that peculiar phase of character that marked it at...
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Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews
by Chaim Potok Publisher Comments A fascinating history of the Jews, told by a master novelist, here is Chaim Potok's fascinating, moving four thousand-year history. Recreating great historical events, exporing Jewish life in its infinite variety and in many eras and places, here is a...
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The Revival of Israel: Rome and Jerusalem, the Last Nationalist Question
by Moses Hess Publisher Comments Important as the first book to give theoretical expression to Zionism, The Revival of Israel was originally published in 1862. The scholar Melvin I. Urofsky notes that it “laid down nearly all of the premises and proposals” that Theodore...
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Eighteen Gates of Jewish Holidays and Festivals
by Is Miron Michrovsky Publisher Comments Eighteen Gates of Jewish Holidays and Festivals is a celebration of Jewish life by the prize-winning composer, conductor, director, and poet, Issachar Miron. Described by the Jerusalem Post as a "top talent and master craftsman whose versatility has...
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The Illustrated History of the Jewish People
by Nicholas De Lange Publisher Comments A wonderfully accessible, beautifully illustrated chronicle of Jewish life through the ages, based on the best recent scholarship. With essays by Jane Gerber, Oded Irshai, Ora Limor, Michael Marrus, Derek Penslar, Seth Schwartz, David Sorkin, and Bernard...
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The Jewish Question: A Marxist
by Abram Leon Synopsis Traces the historical rationalizations of anti-Semitism to the fact that Jews -- in the centuries preceding the domination of industrial capitalism -- were forced to become a "people-class" of merchants and moneylenders. Leon explains how in times of...
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Hellenistic Culture & Society #30: Heritage and Hellenism
by Erich S Gruen Publisher Comments The interaction of Jew and Greek in antiquity intrigues the imagination. Both civilizations boasted great traditions, their roots stretching back to legendary ancestors and divine sanction. In the wake of Alexander the Great's triumphant successes...
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Vision confronts reality :historical perspectives on the contemporary Jewish agenda
by Ruth Kozodoy Publisher Comments This collection of essays brings a historical understanding to bear on contemporary concerns of the world Jewish community, including issues surrounding the early history of Israel that have ongoing repercussions, Soviet Jews, Islamic fundamentalism...
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Studies in the History of Christian Thought, #17: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Part 1 Ancient Near East, Judaism in Late Antiquity, Where We Stand, 3: The Special Problem of the Synagogue
by Jacob Neusner Publisher Comments The volume provides first an overview, followed by a systematic, critical account of the fading consensus. In a number of accounts, the different perspectives are presented in scholarly debate. Because of the willingness of contending parties to meet one...
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Sbl - Studies in Biblical Literature, Israel in Exile: The History and Literature of the Sixth Century B.C.E.
by Rainer Albertz Publisher Comments The period of the Babylonian Exile (597/587520 B.C.E.) is one of the most enthralling eras of biblical history. During this time, Israel went through what was probably its deepest crisis; at the same time, however, the cornerstone was laid for its most...
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Battles of the Bible
by Chaim Herzog Synopsis Vivid account of military events in the Bible....
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