The Jews from Ancient Canaan to a Global Culture

4th Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-041-00780-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 386 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 280 mm, Gewicht: 870 g

This accessibly written volume examines the major periods of Jewish history around the world, from the Jews' distant origins in antiquity through the beginnings of the modern period and the emergence of secular culture.

Although Jews are a small minority, they have settled in almost every part of the world, developing many different subcultures. They have had an outsized impact on global religion even as they have faced prejudice and persecution, and their history makes for a fascinating story of cultural change, adaptation, and survival that is continuing to unfold in the present. Now in a new edition as a split volume, this first volume of a comprehensive history of the Jews draws on up-to-date research to recount the story of the Jews from their beginnings in the ancient Near East through to the dawn of the modern period and the emergence of secular culture. Enhanced by images, limelight given to various historical mysteries, recommendations for how to learn more, as well as other features, the book moves chapter by chapter through the major periods of Jewish history, balancing introductions for those unfamiliar with that history with discussion of new approaches and recent discoveries that have reshaped understanding of the Jewish past.

The book is useful not just for those interested in the Jews themselves but also for readers open to learning about global history from the vantage point of a people whose experiences attest both to the resilience of human culture and to the impact of hate and violence.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lehmann, Matthias

Weitzman, Steven

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. ANCIENT ISRAEL AND OTHER ANCESTORS 2. BECOMING THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK 3. JEWS AND GREEKS 4. BETWEEN CAESAR AND GOD 5. TALMUDIC TRANSFORMATIONS 6. UNDER THE CRESCENT 7. UNDER THE CROSS 8. A JEWISH RENAISSANCE 9. NEW WORLDS, EAST AND WEST

Über Autor(innen)

Matthias B. Lehmann is Professor of Jewish History at the University of Cologne, where he directs the Martin Buber Institute for Jewish Studies. His publications include The Baron: Maurice de Hirsch and the Jewish Nineteenth Century (2022), Emissaries from the Holy Land (2014), and the coedited volume Jews and the Mediterranean (2020).

Steven Weitzman is a scholar of ancient Judaism and serves at the University of Pennsylvania as Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures and as Ella Darivoff Director of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. His publications include The Origin of the Jews: The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age (2017), awarded the National Jewish Book Award, and the soon-to-appear Disasters of Biblical Proportions: The Ten Plagues Then, Now and at the End of the World (2026).