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Author
Series
Hinges of history volume 2
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p1998
Language
English
Description
The author reveals the changes in thinking that made Western civilization possible. He portrays the ancient Jewish society and their vision that would later inspire the concept of individual worth.
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Over the course of one day, traces the loss of the author's Zionist faith against a backdrop of Jewish history, recounting how his growing disaffection with the modern state of Israel was shaped by the mythologies and realities of the Jewish homeland.
Author
Publisher
IVP Academic
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Christian Zionism influences global politics, especially U.S. foreign policy, and has deeply affected Jewish-Christian and Muslim-Christian relations. With a fair-minded, longitudinal study of this dynamic yet controversial movement, Donald M. Lewis traces its lineage from biblical sources through the Reformation to various movements of today"--
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"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... In this...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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Touro University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"This book illuminates important issues faced by Orthodox Judaism in the modern era by relating the life and times of Rabbi Yudel Rosenberg (1859-1935). In presenting Yudel Rosenberg's rabbinic activities, this book aims to show that Jewish Orthodoxy could serve as an agent of modernity no less than its opponents. Yudel Rosenberg's considerable literary output will demonstrate that the line between "secular" and "traditional" literature was not always...
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