Jewish History and Thought : An Introduction

Name: Jewish History and Thought : An Introduction
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ISBN: 9780881254044

ISBN-10: 0881254045

ISBN-13: 9780881254044

Edition: 1st 1991

Authors: Menahem Mansoor

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List price: $19.95
Edition: 1st
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Ktav Publishing House, Incorporated
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 591
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.090
Language: English

Menahem Mansoor is an archaeologist and Professor Emeritus of Hebrew and Semitic Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Mansoor is the former president and co-founder of the Madison Biblical Archaeological Society. Mansoor has written Jewish History and Thought: An Introduction, which covers the 3,500 years of Jewish history. He also wrote and directed the video, Signs, Symbols, and Scripts: Origins of Written Communication and the Birth of the Alphabet, which outlines the development of written communication from its most early origins to modern times.

A Word of Thanks
Introduction
Biblical Age I: Patriarchs Through the Conquest	p. 1
Biblical Age II: The United Monarchy	p. 3
Biblical Age III: The Divided Kingdom and the Prophetic Period	p. 9
Exile and Return	p. 17
Hellenism	p. 25
Rome and Jerusalem	p. 30
The Bible as literature	p. 33
The Making of the Bible	p. 40
Ancient Versions of the Hebrew Bible	p. 51
Development of Religious Thought in the Second Temple Period	p. 63
Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha	p. 69
Apocryphal Literature	p. 77
Jewish Sects during the Second Temple Period	p. 87
The Dead Sea Scrolls	p. 95
The Rise of Christianity	p. 105
Philo (c. 30 B.C.E.-45 C.E.)	p. 115
Josephus (c. 38-100 C.E.)	p. 119
Masada	p. 123
Discoveries Pertaining to the Bar Kokhba Revolt	p. 129
Jews in Palestine and Babylonia: The Great Rabbinical Schools	p. 137
Oral Law	p. 141
The Talmud	p. 147
The Midrash	p. 152
Jewish Liturgy: Background of the Prayerbook	p. 157
Religious Festivals	p. 163
Jews under Christian Rule: Fourth to Tenth Centuries	p. 171
Encounter with Islam	p. 179
The Golden Age of Spain (c. 900-1200)	p. 183
Hebrew Poetry in Spain	p. 189
Medieval Jewish Philosophy	p. 197
Saadyah Gaon (882-942)	p. 200
Medieval Jewish Travelogues and Chronicles	p. 209
Samuel Ibn Nagdela: Ha-Nagid (993-1056)	p. 223
Solomon Ibn Gabirol (c. 1021-1056)	p. 225
Rashi (1040-1105)	p. 231
Abraham Ibn Ezra(1089-1164)	p. 234
Moses Ibn Ezra (c. 1055-1138)	p. 243
Judah Halevi (1075-1141)	p. 246
Maimonides (1035-1204)	p. 251
Bahya Ibn Pakuda (c. 1050-1120)	p. 261
Four Medieval Jewish Writers	p. 266
Ethical Wills (Tsavaot)	p. 275
Responsa Literature	p. 280
Jewish Communities in Medieval France, Germany, and Italy	p. 287
The Expulsion from Spain	p. 293
Joseph Nasi and Manasseh ben Israel	p. 297
Joseph Caro (1488-1575)	p. 303
Kabbalah	p. 309
Zohar	p. 314
Great Kabbalists - Isaac Luria and Hayyim Vital	p. 323
False Messiahs - Shabbetai Tzevi and Jacob Frank	p. 328
Baruch Spinoza	p. 335
Hasidism	p. 339
Haskalah	p. 347
Jews in America	p. 357
Jewish Nightmares in France and Russia	p. 365
The Zionist Dream	p. 373
The Revival of the Hebrew Language and Literature	p. 382
Yiddish Culture	p. 389
Hayyim Nahman Bialik	p. 403
Saul Tschernichowsky	p. 412
Shmuel Yosef Agnon	p. 420
Palestine: Turkey and Great Britain	p. 427
Modern Thought: Rosenzweig, Buber, and Heschel	p. 439
The Holocaust	p. 449
American Jewry in the Twentieth Century	p. 459
The Emergence of Israel	p. 467
Modern Hebrew Literature	p. 473
Appendix A: History of the Jews	p. 485
Appendix B: Chronological Chart	p. 499
Appendix C: General Bibliography	p. 507
Appendix D: Glossary	p. 529
General Index	p. 563
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