Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A History of the Jews is a 1987 historical book by British historian Paul Johnson. The book provides a broad survey of Jewish history, tracing the development of Jewish culture, religion, and identity from ancient times to the modern era. Johnson explores the Jewish people's contributions to civilization, their resilience in the face of ...
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE–1492 CE is a book by the British historian Simon Schama, [1] which is being published in three volumes. [2] The first volume, entitled Finding the Words, 1000BCE – 1492CE , [ 3 ] was published in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head in September 2013. [ 4 ]
First edition. Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews (ISBN 0-394-50110-1) was first published in 1978 by Alfred A. Knopf, New York.According to S. Lillian Kremer in Dictionary of Literary Biography, The book is "a compendium of scholarship about Jewish civilization and its relation to the myriad cultures with which Judaism has come into contact."
Title page of the first edition of Archaeological Writings of the Sanhedrin and Talmuds of the Jews [etc.], 1884. In 1884 Mahan published the first version of the Archko Volume, entitled Archaeological Writings of the Sanhedrin and Talmuds of the Jews, Taken from the Ancient Parchments and Scrolls at Constantinople and the Vatican at Rome, Being the Record Made by the Enemies of Jesus of ...
Ben-Jochannan was the author of 49 books, primarily on ancient Nile Valley civilizations and their influence on Western cultures. [5] In his writings, he asserts that the original Jews were from Ethiopia and were Africans. He says that the Semitic (Middle Eastern) Jews later adopted the Black Jewish faith and its customs. [9]
The first printed edition of Antiquities of the Jews in Greek appeared in 1544. Other publications followed—1553 , 1611 and 1634 , 1687 , 1691 , 1700 (Oxford), 1726 , and so on. Already in the 15th–16th centuries, Jewish Antiquities was translated into Dutch, French, Italian, German and Spanish. The book was published both in modern ...
In Abram Leon's 1946 book The Jewish Question, Leon examines Jewish history from a materialist perspective. According to Leon, Marx's essay uses the framing that one "must not start with religion in order to explain Jewish history; on the contrary: the preservation of the Jewish religion or nationality can be explained only by the 'real Jew ...
Two House theology primarily focuses on the division of the ancient United Monarchy of Israel into two kingdoms, Israel and Judah.Two House theology raises questions when applied to modern peoples who are thought to be descendants of the two ancient kingdoms, both Jews (of the Kingdom of Judah) and the ten lost tribes of the Kingdom of Israel.