Introduction to Judaism

Informationen zum Autor Nicholas de Lange is Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies in the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. A distinguished scholar and translator, he is author of The Penguin Dictionary of Judaism (2008), Modern Judaism: An Oxford Guide (2005) edited with Miri Freud-Kandel, and of an edited translation of Colette Sirat's Hebrew Manuscripts of the Middle Ages (2002, 2008). Klappentext Studies the unique concept of Jewish peoplehood and its survival over the centuries in the face of many challenges. Zusammenfassung In this book contemporary Judaism is presented in all its rich diversity. While the focus of the book is on developments that have taken place in the past two hundred years! they are set against a historical background! going back to the Bible. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables; List of illustrations; Preface; Chronology; Map of the Jewish world in 1930; Map of the Jewish world in the 2000s; 1. The Jews in the world; 2. The Jewish people and its past; 3. Jewish books; 4. The Jewish religion; 5. The family; 6. The community; 7. God and the Jewish people; 8. Objectives; 9. Judaism and the future; Glossary; Further reading; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: N. R. M. De Lange, Nicholas de Lange, Nicholas (University of Cambridge) De Lange, Nicholas de Lange
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 03.12.2009
• EAN: 9780521513500
• ISBN: 978-0-521-51350-0
• Seiten: 272
• Serien: Introduction to Religion; Introduction to Religion
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie > Judentum; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Religion: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; RELIGION / Judaism / General, Religion: general, Judaism