History of Religion Books


Survival In Auschwitz Best Price: $4.95 Mr. Levi's ability to recount his experience with such emotional clarity allowed me to take in a...	The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (Hinges of History) Best Price: $5.29 Look around his occasional skepticism and viewpoint of higher criticism. This is a classic...	The Works of Josephus: Complete and Unabridged, New Updated Edition Best Price: $8.99 Josephus is an important proof for the Biblical Account, and an important read for scholars...	Jewish Backgrounds of the New Testament Best Price: $19.54 Jewish Backgrounds of the New Testament is not light reading, but for the reader seeking a good...	Our Father Abraham: Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith Best Price: $12.00 As a researcher, I use this book often, even when I am discussing non-religious topics. Wilson...



The Feasts Of The Lord God's Prophetic Calendar From Calvary To The Kingdom Best Price: $14.31 This book was recommended by Beth Moore in several of her Women's Bible studies. It gives...	The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus Best Price: $7.25 If you love Jesus, you should read this book. If you keep these type of books around to refer...	Understanding the Old Testament (5th Edition) Best Price: $61.55 I ordered a new Hardcover copy of the 4th Edition of Understanding the Old Testament, by Bernard...	A Short History of the Jewish People: From Legendary Times to Modern Statehood Best Price: $11.75 This book is packed with information that is offered in a very readable manner. The author did...	Jews, God, and History: 2nd Edition Best Price: $4.89 This fact-filled book [review based on the 1962 edition] offers so much! One might be surprised...



The Parables: Jewish Tradition and Christian Interpretation Best Price: $16.21 Dr. Brad Young was a professor of mine at ORU. He is a must read if you are going to be a...	Jewish Literacy Revised Ed: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History Best Price: $20.55 What does it mean to be a Jew? How does one begin to answer so extensive a question? In...	The Thirteenth Tribe Best Price: $7.93 Koestler, and other Khazars, who have the courage to come forward and expose the fraud...	Yeshua: A Guide to the Real Jesus and the Original Church Best Price: $7.67 This book comes with glowing endorsements from a number of serious, heavyweight scholars. Apart...	Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations Best Price: $19.50 This book is really two separate books. The first 2/3 of the book contrasts Roman and Judean...

Understanding Genesis (The Heritage of Biblical Israel) Best Price: $8.83 Sarna brings a wealth of historical and current knowledge into the reading of Genesis. He...	Rabbinic Stories (Classics of Western Spirituality) Best Price: $16.47 What is the Talmud? Who put it together, and why? If you are curious about those questions,...	An Introduction to Early Judaism Best Price: $11.60 This book is very useful as a history of Judaism as it markedly evolved from the Biblical to the...	Settings of Silver: An Introduction to Judaism Best Price: $12.00 Reading this book give so much information, you get closer to judaism as its possible. I was...	Israelite Religions: An Archaeological and Biblical Survey Best Price: $22.10 I am a "minimalist" in analyzing the archaeology and Near Eastern references to the...

American Judaism: A History Best Price: $12.74 Thorough and entertaining at once. The author's argument that American Judaism has primarily...	Studies in Maimonides and His Interpreters Best Price: $8.00 More than 800 years after his death, the figure of Moses Maimonides—rabbi,...	A History of Israel Best Price: $23.97 I prefer: A History of Israel, Walter C. Kaiser; Kingdom of Priests, Eugene H. Merrill, and The...	What is a Jew? Best Price: $4.79 This is a neat little book. It explains not only the major rituals and holidays in Judaism,...	From the Maccabees to the Mishnah, Second Edition Best Price: $19.83 If a history of the Jewish polity from about 167 BCE to 70 CE is part of what you are looking...

Peace Be Upon You: Fourteen Centuries of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Conflict and Cooperation (Vintage) Best Price: $8.58 The usual bias of history writers is to focus on violent conflicts, while glossing over many...	Ancient Israel: From Abraham to the Roman Destruction of the Temple (2nd Edition) Best Price: $43.70 If you are looking for a history of ancient Israel. This is probably as good as you can get.	Jews and Power (Jewish Encounters) Best Price: $11.25 Gave me an unexpected and refreshing perspective on the history of the Jewish people. They have...	"Our Crowd": The Great Jewish Families of New York (Modern Jewish History) Best Price: $11.45 This was a very interesting account of the German-Jewish experience in the United States from...	A History of Ancient Israel and Judah, Second Edition Best Price: $34.76 Wow, this book is a nearly worthless except for that at least the authors acknowledge that the...

The Children of Abraham: Judaism, Christianity, Islam: A New Edition (Princeton Classic Editions) Best Price: $10.99 I had to read this book for a course I'm taking, and I surprisingly found this book very...	Harlot by the Side of the Road Best Price: $5.99 This book gathers an intriguing selection of little known Biblical tales, each rewritten in...	Basic Judaism (Harvest Book.) Best Price: $3.75 I am using this book in an Intro to Judaism class, so have a certain amount of required reading...	From Text to Tradition, a History of Judaism in Second Temple and Rabbinic Times: A History of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism Best Price: $19.99 Although no single book exists that covers everything one would want to know about the second...	The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-hatred, and the Jews (Jewish Encounters) Best Price: $10.88 were I more intelligent I would give this book 5 stars but alas I am not and found it somewhat...

Jewish People, Jewish Thought Best Price: $95.00 This is an amazing treatise for those who need to understand biblical context or the some of the...	Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses Best Price: $5.98 I started the book with enthusiasm and debated whether I'd give it four or five stars. ...	The Beginnings of Jewishness: Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties (Hellenistic Culture and Society) Best Price: $19.75 Unfortunately, this book did not achieve attention and respect as it appropriately deserves. ...	Religions of Ancient Israel: A Synthesis of Parallactic Approaches Best Price: $25.47 Recently taking a biblical archaeology course with Dr. Zevit, and referring frequenlty to this...	Secrets of the Exodus: The Egyptian Origins of the Hebrew People Best Price: $12.06 I've always thought it totally implausible that a tribe would be allowed to go around ransacking...

The Origins of Judaism: From Canaan to the Rise of Islam Best Price: $10.00 The Origins of Judaism provides a clear, straightforward account of the development of ancient...	On the Kabbalah and its Symbolism (Mysticism & Kabbalah) Best Price: $5.76 Many years ago, knowing that Jesus cannot be claimed by any subset of religions, I saw the...	Josephus: The Essential Works Best Price: $14.51 I have long owned a translation by Thackeray of the complete works of Josephus in nine volumes...	Heart of Hebrew History: A Study of the Old Testament. Reprint of the 1949 Ed Best Price: $21.76 Hester's book is fortunately back in print. It was written for college students and is an...	Exploring Exodus: The Origins of Biblical Israel Best Price: $5.09 Sarna's book guides the reader through Exodus, and tries to place it in the context of other...

Jewish Literature Between The Bible And The Mishnah, with CD-ROM, Second Edition Best Price: $18.18 I got this book because Nickelsburg is one of the leading scholars in intertestimental...	The Life of David Best Price: $0.29 A challenge to digest perhaps for the intellectual lazy,but well worth the effort. As some one...	Entering the High Holy Days: A Guide to Origins, Themes, and Prayers Best Price: $11.35 I brought this book with me to High Holyday services this year and used it as a reference. I...	1 Enoch: A New Translation; Based on the Hermeneia Commentary Best Price: $10.15 As a Christian since 83' I wanted more explanation to some of the most recent phenomena that has...	Texts and Traditions: A Source Reader for the Study of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism Best Price: $24.94 I am using this book for a class on the History of the Second Temple Period in Israel. It is a...

Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America Best Price: $2.00 Ruth Gruber describes her journey accompanying 1,000 Jewish and Christian refugees who are...	Why the Jews Rejected Jesus: The Turning Point in Western History Best Price: $8.01 The premise of this book, the Jewish rejection of Jesus is of course from a Jewish viewpoint. It...	The Way Into the Varieties of Jewishness Best Price: $12.91 Just when you were wondering what would be the book to send friends and family alike for the...	A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity (Contraversions, 1) Best Price: $22.00 I have just finished reading this work and I have to say that I am not sure if there was a...	The Templeless Age: An Introduction to the History, Literature, and Theology of the Exile Best Price: $16.47

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