Religion - Judaism - History

Synopsis of Jewish History - From the Return of the Jews from the Babylonish Captivity, to the Days of Herod the GreatGiving an account of the different Sects of those days; the introduction and use of Synagogues and Schools; the origin and introduction of...

Collected here in one unabridged edition are all 20 books of Flavius Josephus' The Antiquities of the Jews. Antiquities of the Jews was first published in 94 AD, it is history of the Jewish people, written in Greek for Josephus' gentile patrons. It begins...

W. D. Mahan investigates Roman, Greek and Jewish writings corresponding to the time of the death of Jesus Christ, including letters apparently written by Pontius Pilate; the Roman governor who sentenced the Son of God to death.This book combines translations to English of various...

While some churches today include Enoch as part of the biblical canon (for example, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church), other Christian denominations and scholars accept it only as having historical or theological noncanonical interest and frequently use or assigned...

The Bible, as we hold it today, is esteemed by many religious institutions and especially Conservative Christians to be the inspired, inerrant Word of God. This doctrinal position affirms that the Bible is unlike all other books or collections of works in that it...

One of the most important Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha works of the Second Temple Period is Enoch.According to the biblical narrative (Genesis 5:21-24), Enoch lived only 365 years (far less than the other patriarchs in the period before the Flood).Enoch "walked with GOD."Enoch is a...

The early Christian Fathers and the Essenes of Qumran respected 'The Book of Enoch' but by the 4th century AD the text was deemed heretical and all extant copies were destroyed. Then in the 18th century, a surviving Ethiopic version was found. It tells...

The early Christian Fathers such as Jude respected The Book of Enoch, as did the Essenes of Qumran. However, by the fourth century AD the text was considered heretical and all extant copies were destroyed. It was not until the 18th century that a...

List over 5,000 Hebrew names with their derivations and meanings, with advice on choosing names and nicknames, and honoring relatives.Author: Smadar S. SidiPublisher: HarperOnePublished: 05/01/1989Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize: 8.02h x 5.35w x 0.50dISBN: 9780062548504

The Covenanters of Damascus; A Hitherto Unknown Jewish Sect Among the Hebrew manuscripts recovered in 1896 from the Genizah of an old synagogue at Fostat, near Cairo, and now in the Cambridge University Library, England, were found eight leaves of a Hebrew manuscript which...

A fully revised and updated edition of our translation of the complete Dead Sea Scrolls, making it the definitive translation of the Scrolls in English. With new texts, updated introductions, a glossary of terms, and other new additions, this will become the definitive translation...

The complete, authoritative study guide to one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of all time--the Dead Sea Scrolls. This indispensable two-volume compendium of the Dead Sea Scrolls contains newly edited English translations and summaries of all the biblical and nonbiblical scrolls found at Qumran....

Foreword by Patrick D. Miller In this remarkable, acclaimed history of the development of monotheism, Mark S. Smith explains how Israel's religion evolved from a cult of Yahweh as a primary deity among many to a fully defined monotheistic faith with Yahweh as sole...

⚠️ PLEASE NOTE: This book is not a direct English translation of the full Ethiopian Bible.Instead, it is a comprehensive guide and historical overview of the 88-book canon used by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church - a tradition unlike any other in Christianity.The Ethiopian Bible...

The Evolution of Old Testament ReligionIt is a matter of common knowledge that within the last few decades a tremendous change has come over our estimate of the value of the Old Testament, and that this change is of the gravest importance for our...

The Exodus has become a core tradition of Western civilization. Millions read it, retell it, and celebrate it. But did it happen?Biblical scholars, Egyptologists, archaeologists, historians, literary scholars, anthropologists, and filmmakers are drawn to it. Unable to find physical evidence until now, many archaeologists...

From three-time National Jewish Book Award winner Dara Horn, a masterful new work of nonfiction that boldly confronts and dismantles the myths and lies that have spread antisemitism from ancient times until today--and then offers an audacious but achievable vision for the future. After...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The author of the runaway bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization takes us on another "captivating...persuasive as well as entertaining" journey into history (The New York Times), recreating a time when the actions of a small band of people had repercussions...

It has been barely 40 years since rabbinical seminaries began ordaining women as rabbis. But women have played a role in Jewish religious leadership from the days of the Bible and even before. Miriam the Prophetess and Deborah the Judge are just the two...

2011 Reprint of Abridged Edition. This is an abridged Edition of Ford's infamous work, first published in 1920. This book is the first and most important volume of "The International Jew". "The International Jew" is a four volume set of booklets or pamphlets originally...