The Land Before the Kingdom of Israel: A History of the Southern Levant and the People Who Populated It
Author: Brendon C. Benz
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 655
ISBN-13: 1646022769
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Author: Brendon C. Benz
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 655
ISBN-13: 1646022769
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ernest Renan
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Published: 1894
Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jorge V. Pixley
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published:
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781451411690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe the People explores John Howard Yoder’s account of peoplehood and develops an appreciative revision that considers the politics of Jesus in relation to the people of Israel. This revision articulates the theopolitical stakes in relation to the modern nation-state’s claims to peoplehood and the observable effects of its exegetical and historical moorings in self-assertion as the new and purified Israel. Tommy Givens then undertakes a critical engagement with Karl Barth’s account of God’s election and a theologically sensitive exegesis of key biblical texts in dialogue with Carl Schmitt, Jacob Taubes, and N. T. Wright.
Author: Ernest Renan
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Published: 1888
Total Pages: 440
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Iain William Provan
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780664220907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this much-anticipated textbook, three respected biblical scholars have written a history of ancient Israel that takes the biblical text seriously as an historical document. While also considering nonbiblical sources and being attentive to what disciplines like archaeology, anthropology, and sociology suggest about the past, the authors do so within the context and paradigm of the Old Testament canon, which is held as the primary document for reconstructing Israel's history. In Part One, the authors set the volume in context and review past and current scholarly debate about learning Israel's history, negating arguments against using the Bible as the central source. In Part Two, they seek to retell the history itself with an eye to all the factors explored in Part One.
Author: John Bright
Publisher: Philadelphia : Westminster Press
Published: 1959
Total Pages: 546
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of Israel is the history of a people which came into being at a certain point in time as a league of tribes united in covenant with Yahweh, which subsequently existed as a nation, then as two nations, and finally as a religious community, but which was at all times set off from its environment as a distinctive cultural entity. The distinguishing factor that made Israel the peculiar phenomenon that she was, which both created her society and was the controlling factor in her history, was of course her religion. Since this is so, Israel's history is a subject inseparable from the history of Israel's religion. - Foreword.
Author: Michael Grant
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 2012-02-16
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1780222777
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe definitve guide to the history of ancient Israel. The History of Ancient Israel covers the epic story of Jewish civilisation from its beginnings to the destruction of Jerusalem, and the Temple in AD 70. It deals with Israel's relations with the great empires which shaped its development and with the changing internal structure of the Jewish state, drawing both on excavation and the Hebrew Bible.
Author: David Bamberger
Publisher: Behrman House, Inc
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780874413939
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn the history of Israel from ancient times to the 1980s.
Author: Daniel Gordis
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-10-18
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 0062368761
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Jewish Book of the Year Award The first comprehensive yet accessible history of the state of Israel from its inception to present day, from Daniel Gordis, "one of the most respected Israel analysts" (The Forward) living and writing in Jerusalem. Israel is a tiny state, and yet it has captured the world’s attention, aroused its imagination, and lately, been the object of its opprobrium. Why does such a small country speak to so many global concerns? More pressingly: Why does Israel make the decisions it does? And what lies in its future? We cannot answer these questions until we understand Israel’s people and the questions and conflicts, the hopes and desires, that have animated their conversations and actions. Though Israel’s history is rife with conflict, these conflicts do not fully communicate the spirit of Israel and its people: they give short shrift to the dream that gave birth to the state, and to the vision for the Jewish people that was at its core. Guiding us through the milestones of Israeli history, Gordis relays the drama of the Jewish people’s story and the creation of the state. Clear-eyed and erudite, he illustrates how Israel became a cultural, economic and military powerhouse—but also explains where Israel made grave mistakes and traces the long history of Israel’s deepening isolation. With Israel, public intellectual Daniel Gordis offers us a brief but thorough account of the cultural, economic, and political history of this complex nation, from its beginnings to the present. Accessible, levelheaded, and rigorous, Israel sheds light on the Israel’s past so we can understand its future. The result is a vivid portrait of a people, and a nation, reborn.
Author: Colin Shindler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-03-25
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 1107311217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKColin Shindler's remarkable history begins in 1948, as waves of immigrants arrived in Israel from war-torn Europe to establish new cities, new institutions, and a new culture founded on the Hebrew language. Optimistic beginnings were soon replaced with the sobering reality of wars with Arab neighbours, internal ideological differences, and ongoing confrontation with the Palestinians. In this updated edition, Shindler covers the significant developments of the last decade, including the rise of the Israeli far right, Hamas's takeover and the political rivalry between Gaza and the West Bank, Israel's uneasy dealings with the new administration in the United States, political Islam and the potential impact of the Arab Spring on the region as a whole. This sympathetic yet candid portrayal asks how a nation that emerged out of the ashes of the Holocaust and was the admiration of the world is now perceived by many Western governments in a less than benevolent light.