Introduction To Jewish History

Introduction To Jewish History by Seymour Rossel. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780874413359.

Contents are divided into two units. UNIT ONE: IN THE WAYS OF THE BIBLE, Jewish History Begins, God Remembers Israel, The Great Covenant, The Promised Land, Israel Against the Philistines, The Kingdom and the Temple, The Northern Kingdom, The Kingdom of Judah, The End of Judah and the Temple, The Return to Jerusalem. UNIT TWO: IN THE DAYS OF THE RABBIS: Hellenism and Hasidism, Danger, Revolt and Rome, Pharisees and Sadducees, Herod, King of the Jews, The Last Day of Judea, Old Ways and New, The Work of the Rabbis, Bar Kochbas Rebellion, Defeat and Victory, The Jews of Babylonia, Talmud: The Crowning Glory, Index.