Jews and Judaism in World History

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This book is a survey of the history of the Jewish people from biblical antiquity to the present, spanning nearly 2,500 years an ...

The Themes in World History series offers focused treatment of a range of human experiences and institutions in the world histor ...

Howard N. Lupovitch Jews and Judaism in World History ...

First published 2010 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Ca ...

Contents - Introduction: dimensions of Jewish history 1 The world of the Hebrew Bible 2 The challenge of Hellenism 3 The rise ...

For Dahvi and Hanna The aim of this book is to provide students of Jewish History with a compact, one-volume history of the Jews ...

Jewish history is more than the history of a religion called Judaism. Although Judaism is a central component, Jewish history al ...

coherent entity. So, too, the history of the Jews. Jews in the twentieth century are so vastly different from their ancient coun ...

This may have been true from time to time, but as often as not, Jews felt very much at home in the places where they lived, espe ...

symbols, and institutions. Chapters 6 and 7 will consider how a series of changes in the polity, culture, and society of Europe ...

Studying the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) as history poses a problem to the modern history reader: a scarcity of evidence, particularly ...

approaches in determining the historicity of this later period. Some, mainly philologists, have followed a more minimalist appro ...

Yahweh to Abraham, the grandfather of Jacob. In exchange for untram- meled fidelity and obedience, Abraham and his heretofore ch ...

absolute terms: “We shall abide.” The Deuteronomic Code, whose conditional tone differed starkly from the earlier divine command ...

during the reign of Hezekiah at the end of the eighth century and Josiah toward the end of the seventh. Fifth, the relations bet ...

Second, the tribal confederation was unable to prevent a rupture in the fab- ric of Israelite society, exemplified by the conclu ...

The United Monarchy The rise and reign of King David inaugurated the period of the United Monarchy is the central narrative in t ...

including the Philistine city-states, reducing them to vassals and forcing them to pay tribute. Second, he extended the borders ...

The antimonarchic editorial voice of I Kings presented a darker side of this passionate nature, epitomized by his passion for ma ...