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Author
Series
Great courses volume no. 6457
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
(THIS IS A SET. Book and DVDs must be checkout together)
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"[This] is the important story of how Judaism enhanced America and how America inspired Judaism. Steven R. Weisman tells the dramatic history of how Judaism redefined itself in America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries--the personalities that fought each other and shaped its evolution and, crucially, the force of the American dynamic that transformed an ancient religion. The struggles that produced a redefinition of Judaism illuminate the...
Author
Series
Great courses volume no. 6457
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
(THIS IS A SET. Book and CDs must be checkout together)
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In The Crucible of Faith, Philip Jenkins argues that much of the Judeo-Christian tradition we know today was born between 250-50 BCE, during a turbulent "Crucible Era." It was during these years that Judaism grappled with Hellenizing forces and produced new religious ideas that reflected and responded to their changing world. By the time of the fall of the Temple in 70 CE, concepts that might once have seemed bizarre became normalized-and thus passed...
6) Echoes
Author
Language
English
Description
ON the shores of Lake Geneva in 1915, the Jewish beauty Beata Wittgenstein falls in love with a Catholic French officer and marries him despite the wishes of her family, but when Hitler's terror arrives, Beata has to undertake a harrowing journey of survival.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Explores the founding of the city, its centrality for Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities, major events in the city's history as recorded in sacred texts, and visits locations including Mount Moriah, the site of the First and Second Temples; the Church of the Holy Sepulcher; the Dome of the Rock; and the Western Wall.
Series
Great courses volume no. 653
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
These twenty-four lectures offer an introduction to the history, literature, and religion of ancient Israel and early Judaism as it is presented in the collection of texts called the Old Testament, the Hebrew Bible, and the Tanakh. Attention is given not only to the content of the biblical books but also to the debates over their meaning and the critical methods through which they have been interpreted. (THIS IS A SET. Book and DVDs must be checkout...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In Washington, D.C., during the Great Depression, Muriel and her family have no money to prepare the seder meal until a mysterious stranger performs a Passover miracle. Includes notes on the Passover holiday, the Great Depression, and the history of the D.C. Jewish community.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When Pope Pius XII died in 1958, his papers were sealed in the Vatican Secret Archives, leaving unanswered questions about what he knew and did during World War II. Those questions have only grown and festered, making Pius XII one of the most controversial popes in Church history, especially now as the Vatican prepares to canonize him. In 2020, Pius XII's archives were finally opened, and David I. Kertzer--widely recognized as one of the world's leading...
Author
Publisher
Image
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Takes readers step-by-step from the Garden of Eden to the Book of Revelation to reveal where Catholic beliefs about Mary really come from. Dr. Pitre uses the Old Testament and ancient Judaism to show how the Bible itself teaches that Mary is the new Eve, the Mother of God, the Queen of Heaven and Earth, and the new Ark of the Covenant"--
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