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History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
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K Armstrong
This erudite and thought-provoking book is an excellent introduction to three major religious faiths--Judaism, Christianity, and Islam--and their differing views of God, as well as the way these views have shaped the world. Karen Armstrong's personal history includes time spent as a nun in her homeland of England; this fact makes her comparative ...
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Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know about the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History
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Joseph Telushkin, Rabbi
With 348 short chapters covering every essential aspect of Jewish history and life--from the Torah to modern American Jewish culture--this invaluable reference is a comprehensive yet thoroughly accessible resource on the fundamentals of Judaism.
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The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels
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Thomas Cahill
A narrative history of the Jewish people, written by the best-selling author of "How the Irish Saved Civilization". Cahill understands the real significance of the Jews in world history to be not merely as the originators of monotheism, but as the first people to understand the notion of history itself--the first to view time as a linear narrative ...
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Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews: A History
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James Carroll
Novelist James Carroll has compiled a sweeping history of anti-semitism in the Christian tradition. Carroll, himself once a priest, describes incidents of both active and passive aggression against the Jewish faithful from the Crusades to the Inquisition to the Holocaust. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001 and Beliefnet.com's Best Book of the ...
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The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism
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Karen Armstrong
Armstrong gives a tempered analysis of the fundamentalist movements of the major monotheistic religions. Her book not only explores the historical genesis of these movements, but also examines the role that fundamentalism plays in societal transformations. A New York Times Notable Book for 2000.
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The works of Josephus
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Flavius Josephus
Complete and unabridged, this is the best one-volume edition of the classic translation of Josephus works. Important improvements include: the entire text has been reset in modern, easy-to-read type; numbering corresponding to that used in the Loeb edition has been added to the text; citations and cross-references have been updated from roman ...
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God Was in This Place & I, I Did Not Know: Finding Self, Spirituality, and Ultimate Meaning
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Lawrence Kushner, Rabbi
This illuminating journey into the nature of God's "self" and one's self opens a window into Jewish spirituality for people of all faiths and backgrounds. God Was in This Place joins Kushner's great classics, The Book of Letters, Honey from the Rock, and The River of Light as the product of a new and dynamic spiritual and literary genius.
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The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English
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Geza Vermes (Translator)
A transcription and commentary on the famous Qumran scrolls, discovered in 1947 and carefully edited and reconstructed over the succeeding 50 years by many of the most distinguished scholars in the world.
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Lest innocent blood be shed
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Philip P. Hallie
During the terrible years of World War II, when inhumanity and political insanity held most of the world in their grip and the Nazi domination of Europe seemed irrevocable, a miraculous event took place in Le Chambon, a small Protestant town in southern France. There, quietly, peacefully, and in full view of the Vichy government and a nearby ...
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A History of Israel
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John Bright
The definitive text and resource for every student of the Old Testament. this thire edition of John Bright's classic work is a thorough revision of the text that has become a standard for reference and classroom use.
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Essential Judaism: A Complete Guide to Beliefs, Customs and Rituals
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George Robinson
Robinson, winner of the Simon Rockower Award for Excellence in Jewish Journalism, has assembled a one-volume, comprehensive guide to the practices, holidays, lifestyles, and philosophies of the Jews, covering all of the various persuasions of Jewry.
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This is My God
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Herman Wouk
In addition to being a novelist (he was awarded the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for his novel THE CAINE MUTINY), Herman Wouk was an observant Jew who attended synagogue and kept a kosher home where Hebrew was spoken. In THIS IS MY GOD, at the suggestion of a rabbi friend, Wouk, the son of Russian immigrants, wrote about his Jewish heritage and its ...
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Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism
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Gershom Scholem
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Dead Sea Scrolls Deception
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Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh
Over the last two years a controversy has erupted in the world's press over the Dead Sea Scrolls that were found in caves 20 miles east of Jerusalem between 1947 and 1956. Professor Geza Vermes of Oxford calls it "the academic scandal par excellence of the 20th century", Professor Morton Smith of Columbia University protests that "there is no ...
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Jewish Humor: What the Best Jewish Jokes Say about the Jews
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Joseph Telushkin, Rabbi
An insightful analysis of what humor reveals about Jewish culture in what might well be the funniest compilation of Jewish jokes ever assembled. Jewish Humor looks at Jewish culture through jokes about the inescapable hold of the Jewish family, Jews in business, Jewish neuroses, and many other subjects. Comedy club/media events in New York and Los ...
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What Is a Jew
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Morris N Kertzer
Completely revised and reorganized, this guide to the traditions, beliefs, and practices of Judaism--for both Jew and non-Jew--tackles a wide range of subjects in a question-and-answer format. Ideal for conversion students, interfaith couples, and congregants seeking answers to essential day-to-day issues.
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Wanderings
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Chaim Potok
A fascinating history of the Jews, told by a master novelist, here is Chaim Potok's fascinating, moving four thousand-year history. Recreating great historical events, exporing Jewish life in its infinite variety and in many eras and places, here is a unique work by a singular Jewish voice.
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The nine questions people ask about Judaism
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Dennis Prager
Written for the educated, skeptical, searching Jew, and for the non-Jew who wants to understand the meaning of Judaism, this thought-provoking book has become a widely-read introduction to the oldest living religion, consisely and engagingly presenting Judaism as the rational, moral alternative for contemporary man.
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History of the Jews
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Paul Johnson
"The world tended to see the Jews as a race which ruled itself in antiquity and set down its records in the Bible; had then gone underground for many centuries; had emerged at last only to be slaughtered by the Nazis; and, finally had created a state of its own, controversial and beleaguered. But these were merely salient episodes. I wanted to ...
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Yeshua: A Guide to the Real Jesus and the Original Church
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Ron Moseley
The early years of the Church were all Jewish. The original Church was patterned after the Jewish synagogue. Yeshua (Jesus) used numerous Jewish idioms in his teachings and was, perhaps, a Pharisee himself. Learn how Jewish customs and traditions informed the writers of the New Testament. Understand the Jewish roots of the Christian faith.
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Josephus: The Essential Works
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Paul L Maier, Ph.D. (Editor)
As the primary source of additional information about events in the Old and New Testaments, Jewish An-tiquities & The Jewish War by Josephus take on a brilliant new dimension with full-color photographs of many of the places & artifacts cited in these works.
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Backgrounds of Early Christianity
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Everett Ferguson
Widely used as a textbook since its publication in 1987, this work provides an analytical and systematic introduction to the Roman, Greek, and Jewish political, social, literary, and religious backgrounds necessary for a historical understanding of the New Testament in the early church.
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Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy
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Jane Leavy
Draws on more than four hundred interviews with friends, teammates, and opponents to present a portrait of the distinguished baseball pitcher.
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Jewish Backgrounds of the New Testament
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Julius J Scott
This survey of intertestamental Judaism illuminates the customs and controversies that provide essential background for understanding the New Testament. Helpful charts, maps, and diagrams are incorporated throughout the text.
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Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash
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Hermann Leberecht Strack
Based on Stracks classic introduction, this is a comprehensive, fully revised and up-to- date reference to rabbinic literature.
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