One God, Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

1. How did the Israelites become Jews?


2. What is different after the Exile?


3. What was the special challenge of Hellenism to Judaism?

Peters, F.E. The Monotheists: Jews, Christians and Muslims inConflict

and Competition. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2003,

(Chapters 1 & 2).

Gaines, Janet Howe. Music in the Old Bones: Jezebel Through the Ages.

Southern Illinois University Press, 2000.

Larson, Mogens Trolle. The Conquest of Assyria: Excavating in an Antique

Land. Routledge, 1996.

Roller, Duane W. The Building Program of Herod the Great. California:

University of California Press, 1998.

Saggs, Henry W.F. Babylonians (Peoples of the Past). California: University

of California Press, 2000.

http://www.templemount.org - a site highlighting the research of Tel Aviv Architect

Tuvia Sagiv relating to the First and Second Jewish Temple sites.



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Suggested Reading

Other Books of Interest

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