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Jewish History and Thought: An Introduction » (1st Edition)
Authors: Menahem Mansoor
ISBN-13: 9780881254044, ISBN-10: 0881254045
Format: Paperback
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Date Published: January 1991
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: Menahem Mansoor
Book Synopsis
Table of Contents
| A Word of Thanks | ||
| Introduction | ||
| I | Biblical Age I: Patriarchs Through the Conquest | 1 |
| Biblical Age II: The United Monarchy | 3 | |
| II | Biblical Age III: The Divided Kingdom and the Prophetic Period | 9 |
| III | Exile and Return | 17 |
| IV | Hellenism | 25 |
| Rome and Jerusalem | 30 | |
| V | The Bible as literature | 33 |
| The Making of the Bible | 40 | |
| VI | Ancient Versions of the Hebrew Bible | 51 |
| VII | Development of Religious Thought in the Second Temple Period | 63 |
| VIII | Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha | 69 |
| Apocryphal Literature | 77 | |
| IX | Jewish Sects during the Second Temple Period | 87 |
| X | The Dead Sea Scrolls | 95 |
| XI | The Rise of Christianity | 105 |
| XII | Philo (c. 30 B.C.E.-45 C.E.) | 115 |
| XIII | Josephus (c. 38-100 C.E.) | 119 |
| XIV | Masada | 123 |
| XV | Discoveries Pertaining to the Bar Kokhba Revolt | 129 |
| XVI | Jews in Palestine and Babylonia: The Great Rabbinical Schools | 137 |
| Oral Law | 141 | |
| XVII | The Talmud | 147 |
| The Midrash | 152 | |
| XVIII | Jewish Liturgy: Background of the Prayerbook | 157 |
| Religious Festivals | 163 | |
| XIX | Jews under Christian Rule: Fourth to Tenth Centuries | 171 |
| XX | Encounter with Islam | 179 |
| XXI | The Golden Age of Spain (c. 900-1200) | 183 |
| Hebrew Poetry in Spain | 189 | |
| XXII | Medieval Jewish Philosophy | 197 |
| Saadyah Gaon (882-942) | 200 | |
| XXIII | Medieval Jewish Travelogues and Chronicles | 209 |
| XXIV | Samuel Ibn Nagdela: Ha-Nagid (993-1056) | 223 |
| Solomon Ibn Gabirol (c. 1021-1056) | 225 | |
| XXV | Rashi (1040-1105) | 231 |
| Abraham Ibn Ezra(1089-1164) | 234 | |
| XXVI | Moses Ibn Ezra (c. 1055-1138) | 243 |
| Judah Halevi (1075-1141) | 246 | |
| XXVII | Maimonides (1035-1204) | 251 |
| XXVIII | Bahya Ibn Pakuda (c. 1050-1120) | 261 |
| Four Medieval Jewish Writers | 266 | |
| XXIX | Ethical Wills (Tsavaot) | 275 |
| Responsa Literature | 280 | |
| XXX | Jewish Communities in Medieval France, Germany, and Italy | 287 |
| XXXI | The Expulsion from Spain | 293 |
| XXXII | Joseph Nasi and Manasseh ben Israel | 297 |
| XXXIII | Joseph Caro (1488-1575) | 303 |
| XXXIV | Kabbalah | 309 |
| Zohar | 314 | |
| XXXV | Great Kabbalists - Isaac Luria and Hayyim Vital | 323 |
| False Messiahs - Shabbetai Tzevi and Jacob Frank | 328 | |
| XXXVI | Baruch Spinoza | 335 |
| XXXVII | Hasidism | 339 |
| XXXVIII | Haskalah | 347 |
| XXXIX | Jews in America | 357 |
| XL | Jewish Nightmares in France and Russia | 365 |
| XLI | The Zionist Dream | 373 |
| The Revival of the Hebrew Language and Literature | 382 | |
| XLII | Yiddish Culture | 389 |
| XLIII | Hayyim Nahman Bialik | 403 |
| Saul Tschernichowsky | 412 | |
| Shmuel Yosef Agnon | 420 | |
| XLIV | Palestine: Turkey and Great Britain | 427 |
| XLV | Modern Thought: Rosenzweig, Buber, and Heschel | 439 |
| XLVI | The Holocaust | 449 |
| XLVII | American Jewry in the Twentieth Century | 459 |
| XLVIII | The Emergence of Israel | 467 |
| Modern Hebrew Literature | 473 | |
| Appendix A: History of the Jews | 485 | |
| Appendix B: Chronological Chart | 499 | |
| Appendix C: General Bibliography | 507 | |
| Appendix D: Glossary | 529 | |
| General Index | 563 |
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