The Wiley-Blackwell History of Jews and Judaism
The Wiley-Blackwell History of Jews and Judaism (The Wiley-Blackwell Histories of Religion) edited by Alan T. Levenson
English | May 21, 2012 | ISBN: 1405196378 | True EPUB | 712 pages | 1.1 MB
English | May 21, 2012 | ISBN: 1405196378 | True EPUB | 712 pages | 1.1 MB
In The Wiley-Blackwell History of Jews and Judaism, a team of internationally-renowned scholars offer a comprehensive and authoritative overview of Jewish life and culture, from the biblical period to contemporary times.
- Provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the main periods and themes of Jewish history, from Biblical Israel, through medieval and early modern periods, to Judaism since the Holocaust, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and Judaism today
- Brings together an international team of established and emerging scholars across a range of disciplines
- Discusses how to present Judaism - to both non-Jews and Jews - as a religious system on its own terms and with its own unique vocabulary
- Explores the latest scholarship on a range of issues, including folk practices, politics, economic structure, the relationship of Judaism to Christianity, and the nature of Zionism diaspora and its implications for contemporary Israel
- Considers Jewish historiography and the lives of ordinary people, the achievements of Jewish women, and the sustained interaction of Jews within the environments they inhabited
- Edited by a leading scholar in Jewish studies and history