| Turning Points in Jewish Intellectual History Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Aberbach, D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1349513563 ISBN-13: 9781349513567 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2003 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Jewish - General - Religion | History - Religion | Judaism - General |
| Dewey: 909.049 |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.68 lbs) 220 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Religious Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book analyzes major transformations in Jewish life and thought: from idolatry to exclusive monotheism in the biblical age, from state-based identity to cultural nationalism in the Roman empire; and, in the European Diaspora, from theology to secularism and revived political nationalism in the modern period. Fundamental questions are asked about Jewish survival in a variety of topics including prophecy, Jewish law, Midrash, the Roman-Jewish wars, Stoicism, secular poetry in Muslim Spain, Marx and Freud, and Hebrew literature through the ages. |