The second of four volumes covering the history of Judaism from 540 BCE to 250 CE, this book deals with the encounter of Judaism with the Hellenistic culture spread throughout the Mediterranean world and beyond by Alexander the Great and his successors. Drawing upon recent scholarship in archaeology, history and scriptures, the contributors describe the religious, social and cultural rejection and adoption of Hellenism by Judaism. Illustrated with plates and diagrams, the text will prove an invaluable resource to scholars and general readers interested in Jewish or Mediterranean history.

The classic statement of the ideas which form the religious consciousness of the Jewish people at large, by one of the great minds of Jewish scholarship of our century. His creative scholarship, compelling English style, and warm personality have given this book lasting influence on Jew and non-Jew alike. Includes the original preface of 1909 and the introduction by Louis Finkelstein.

This present volume is a modest effort to analyze some of the moral dilemmas of our time, and to indicate elements of hope for the futur. The essays refer to a variety of complex situations, each of which seems to threaten our generation, but which, appraoched creatively, may turn out to be a stage in the improvement of the human condition. The volume is based on the premise that consideration of man's ethical life should be given the same attention now directed to scientific and technological achievemnt, and indeed that this achievemnet be utilized, when possible, for the better...