Jewish History: A 12-Volume Anthology
Essays on Ancient Judea, Diaspora, Emancipation, Faith, and Modern Historical ConsciousnessBy Maurice H. Harris, Simon Dubnow, Max Radin, Flavius Josephus, Alfred Edersheim, Joseph Krauskopf, David Baron, Peter Wiernik, G. K. Chesterton, Lady Katie Magnus
Length193h 51m
About this audiobook
Jewish History: A 12-Volume Anthology assembles a capacious archive of historical narrative, religious interpretation, legal reflection, biography, and cultural criticism. Spanning antiquity to modernity, its selections place accounts of Judea under Roman rule beside studies of rabbinic tradition, medieval endurance, emancipation, nationalism, and Jewish-Christian encounter. Classical testimony, scholarly historiography, devotional prose, and polemical essay coexist, making the set valuable not merely as a chronology but as a record of changing ways of narrating Jewish life. Its contributors bring markedly different intellectual inheritances to the subject. Ancient historiography is joined by nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Jewish scholarship, Anglo-American religious writing, legal history, and literary commentary. Voices associated with Wissenschaft des Judentums, modern Jewish historical consciousness, Zionist-era debates, and Christian efforts to interpret Jewish tradition collectively reveal the contested conditions under which Jewish history has been preserved and explained. Their divergences—especially in matters of faith, diaspora, nationhood, and relations with surrounding societies—are themselves instructive. Recommended for students, general readers, and researchers, this anthology offers the rare opportunity to compare sources and interpretations across genres and centuries in one extended collection. Readers will find a broad educational foundation, but also an ongoing dialogue: between memory and evidence, religious inheritance and modern criticism, and Jewish self-representation and external observation.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length193 hrs 51 mins
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Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Annotated)
2A Thousand Years of Jewish History: From the days of Alexander the Great to the Moslem Conquest of Spain
3Introduction
4BOOK I.
5CHAPTER IV.
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6BOOK II.
7CHAPTER XII.
8BOOK III.
9CHAPTER XIX.
10BOOK IV.
11CHAPTER XXX.
12Chronological Table.
13BOOK V.
14Outlines of Jewish History from B.C. 586 to C.E. 1885
15PREFACE.
16BOOK I. 500 B.C. TO 70 A.C. IN THE SHADOW OF THE SWORD.
17BOOK II. 70 TO 1600. DARKNESS. (pt. 1)
18BOOK II. 70 TO 1600. DARKNESS. (pt. 2)
19BOOK III. 100–1500. STARLIGHT.
20BOOK IV. 1591–1885. DAWN. (pt. 1)
21BOOK IV. 1591–1885. DAWN. (pt. 2)
22GENERAL LISTS OF WORKS
23A SELECTION OF EDUCATIONAL WORKS.
24INTRODUCTORY NOTE
25I. THE RANGE OF JEWISH HISTORY
26IV. THE HISTORICAL SYNTHESIS
27VIII. THE GAONIC PERIOD, OR THE HEGEMONY OF THE ORIENTAL JEWS (500-980)
28XII. THE TEACHINGS OF JEWISH HISTORY
29The Jews among the Greeks and Romans
30Preface
31Introduction (pt. 1)
32Introduction (pt. 2)
33Introduction (pt. 3)
34Introduction (pt. 4)
35Introduction (pt. 5)
36The Jewish Wars: History of the Jewish War and Resistance against the Romans
37Preface
38Book I
39Chapter 1
40Chapter 2
41Chapter 3
42Chapter 4
43Chapter 5
44Chapter 6
45Chapter 7
46Chapter 8
47Chapter 9
48Chapter 10
49Chapter 11
50Chapter 12
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