A history of israel, vol.ii, by w.o.e. oesterley
Author: W. o. e Oesterley
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Published: 1932
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Author: W. o. e Oesterley
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Published: 1932
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Published: 1957
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Oscar Emil Oesterley
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Published: 1932
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Abraham Malamat
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 1236
ISBN-13: 9780674397316
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in Hebrew in Tel Aviv in 1969. First English translation by Weidenfeld and Nicholson in 1976.
Author: William Oscar Emil Oesterley
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Published: 1957
Total Pages: 500
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Allegro
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Published: 2015-03-06
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 0989328031
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Chosen People tells the history of the Jews from the conquest of Jersualem by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon in 587 B.C.E. to the Second Jewish Revolt of C.E. 132. John Allegro bases his account on traditional texts — books of the Old Testament, Josephus, Philo Judaeus, Dio Cassius, and others — and sets out the complicated parade of plots, counter-plots, betrayals, and insurrections in a brisk and highly readable sequence. His main theme is how the conception of the Jewish nation as a divinely chosen race was planted as a political ambition among the exiled Jews. Bringing together old customs and stories, the idea was fired by the longing of the Babylonian Jews for their traditional homeland. Many of them grew prosperous outside Palestine, and their wealthy communities manipulated the wish for identity in the idea of an exclusive Judaism embodied as a political state and fighting for autonomy against local and imperial neighbors — more dream than fact. The author writes that “When the ‘new Judaism' came to be hammered out after the return from captivity, it was around these ancient customs and a historicized mythology that it was fashioned.” The religion was devised not, as popularly presented, by gift of the desert god Yahweh who had manifested himself in opposition to the Canaanite fertility god Baal but by reinterpreting the Sumerian idea of a life-giving god over many generations. For there was no fundamental opposition — the god-names originally meant the same. This second edition features a new introduction by James M. Donovan.
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Published: 1934
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: G.L. Davenport
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-07-04
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9004509232
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Oscar Emil Oesterley
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Published: 1932
Total Pages: 500
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Samuel George Frederick Brandon
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 276
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