The History of the People of Israel in Pre-Christian Times
Author: Mary Sarson
Publisher:
Published: 1912
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13:
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From Time Immemorial
Author: Joan Peters
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 652
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDispels the myth that Arabs and Jews lived together peacefully in former days in the Arab countries and examines Jewish and Arab immigration patterns.
A History of Ancient Israel and Judah
Author: James Maxwell Miller
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 1986-01-01
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13: 9780664212629
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA significant achievement, this book moves our understanding of the history of Israel forward as dramatically as John Bright's A History of Israel, Martin Noth's History of Israel, and William F. Albright's From the Stone Age ot Cristianity did at an earlier period.
The Rise of Christianity
Author: Rodney Stark
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 1997-05-09
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0060677015
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis "fresh, blunt, and highly persuasive account of how the West was won—for Jesus" (Newsweek) is now available in paperback. Stark's provocative report challenges conventional wisdom and finds that Christianity's astounding dominance of the Western world arose from its offer of a better, more secure way of life. "Compelling reading" (Library Journal) that is sure to "generate spirited argument" (Publishers Weekly), this account of Christianity's remarkable growth within the Roman Empire is the subject of much fanfare. "Anyone who has puzzled over Christianity's rise to dominance...must read it." says Yale University's Wayne A. Meeks, for The Rise of Christianity makes a compelling case for startling conclusions. Combining his expertise in social science with historical evidence, and his insight into contemporary religion's appeal, Stark finds that early Christianity attracted the privileged rather than the poor, that most early converts were women or marginalized Jews—and ultimately "that Christianity was a success because it proved those who joined it with a more appealing, more assuring, happier, and perhaps longer life" (Andrew M. Greeley, University of Chicago).
The Origin of the Jews
Author: Steven Weitzman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2019-04-02
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 0691191654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe scholarly quest to answer the question of Jewish origins The Jews have one of the longest continuously recorded histories of any people in the world, but what do we actually know about their origins? While many think the answer to this question can be found in the Bible, others look to archaeology or genetics. Some skeptics have even sought to debunk the very idea that the Jews have a common origin. Steven Weitzman takes a learned and lively look at what we know—or think we know—about where the Jews came from, when they arose, and how they came to be. He sheds new light on the assumptions and biases of those seeking answers—and the religious and political agendas that have made finding answers so elusive. Introducing many approaches and theories, The Origin of the Jews brings needed clarity and historical context to this enduring and divisive topic.
The Politics of Ancient Israel
Author: Norman Karol Gottwald
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780664219772
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work offers a reconstruction of the politics of ancient Israel within the wider political environment of the ancient Near East. Gottwald begins by questioning the view of some biblical scholars that the primary factor influencing Israel's political evolution was its religion.
A Biblical History of Israel
Author: 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.
Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From?
Author: William G. Dever
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2006-03-31
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780802844163
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA respected archaeologist's engaging, revealing take on ancient Israel. A thorough yet readable examination of a much-debated subject -- of relevance also to the current Israeli-Palestinian situation -- this book is sure to reinvigorate discussion of the origins of ancient Israel.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author: Hugh Chisholm
Publisher:
Published: 1910
Total Pages: 1090
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
When Christians Were Jews
Author: Paula Fredriksen
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2018-10-23
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0300240740
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA compelling account of Christianity’s Jewish beginnings, from one of the world’s leading scholars of ancient religion How did a group of charismatic, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries, working to prepare their world for the impending realization of God's promises to Israel, end up inaugurating a movement that would grow into the gentile church? Committed to Jesus’s prophecy—“The Kingdom of God is at hand!”—they were, in their own eyes, history's last generation. But in history's eyes, they became the first Christians. In this electrifying social and intellectual history, Paula Fredriksen answers this question by reconstructing the life of the earliest Jerusalem community. As her account arcs from this group’s hopeful celebration of Passover with Jesus, through their bitter controversies that fragmented the movement’s midcentury missions, to the city’s fiery end in the Roman destruction of Jerusalem, she brings this vibrant apostolic community to life. Fredriksen offers a vivid portrait both of this temple-centered messianic movement and of the bedrock convictions that animated and sustained it.
