A History of Judaism [electronic resource]
Martin Goodman2017
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A panoramic history of Judaism from its origins to the present
Judaism is by some distance the oldest of the three Abrahamic religions. Despite
the extraordinarily diverse forms it has taken, the Jewish people have believed
themselves bound to God by the same covenant for more than three thousand years.
This book explains how Judaism came to be and how it has developed from one age
to the next, as well as the ways in which its varieties have related to each
other.
A History of Judaism ranges from Judaism's inception amidst polytheistic
societies in the second and fi rst millennia, through the Jerusalem Temple cult
in the centuries preceding its destruction, to the rabbis, mystics and messiahs
of medieval and early modern times and, finally, the many expressions of the
modern and contemporary Jewish worlds. Throughout, Martin Goodman shows how
Judaism has been made and remade over the millennia by individuals as well as
communities, and shaped by the cultures and philos...
Main title:
A History of Judaism [electronic resource] / Martin Goodman
Author:
Martin Goodman, Author
Imprint:
United Kingdom : Penguin, 2017
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (512 pages)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780141978413
Language:
English
BRN:
437516
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