The Jewish Experience: An Introduction to Jewish History and Jewish Life

ISBN-13: 9780800696634 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 208 str.

Steven Leonard Jacobs

Opis

This is a story of the Jewish experience through history, which introduces and explains the many dimensions of Jewish life as cycles through which Jewish history, thought, writing, and practices have evolved and continue to mature. Steven Jacobs writes a clear and straightforward introduction which explains the basics of Jewish history; the tradition of texts; key philosophical and theological issues and thinkers; the Judaic calendar; and contemporary global concerns and what the future may portend for Judaism