Yahweh before Israel: Glimpses of History in a Divine Name 1108835074, 9781108835077

Yahweh Before Israel: Glimpses of History in a Divine Name 1108835074, 9781108835077

Yahweh is the proper name of the biblical God. His early character is central to understanding the foundations of Jewish

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A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America 9781479887194

Winner, 2019 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society A groundbreaking history of the pr

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The Splintered Divine: A Study of Istar, Baal, and Yahweh Divine Names and Divine Multiplicity in the Ancient Near East 9781614512363, 9781614512936, 9781501515750

This book investigates the issue of the singularity versus the multiplicity of ancient Near Eastern deities who are know

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Abraham Abulafia: Meditations on the Divine Name

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In the Name of History 9633863481, 9789633863480

In this book Joan Wallach Scott discusses the role history has played as an arbiter of right and wrong and of those who

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In the Name of History 9789633863497

In this book Joan Wallach Scott discusses the role history has played as an arbiter of right and wrong and of those who

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Israel: A History 9780795337406

“The most comprehensive account of Israeli history yet published” (Efraim Karsh, The Sunday Telegraph). Fleeing persecut

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Ancient Israel: A New History of Israel 9780567662781, 9780567662811, 9780567662798

When this provocative text was first published, Lemche presented a new model of how we should understand Israelite socie

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In the Shadow of Zion: Promised Lands Before Israel 9781479804573

From the late nineteenth century through the post-Holocaust era, the world was divided between countries that tried to e

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Jewish City or Inferno of Russian Israel?: A History of the Jews in Kiev before February 1917 9781618114778

This book describes the history of Jews in Kiev from the tenth century to the February 1917 Revolution. At the turn of t

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