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Jewish History and Thought: An Introduction (1991) is a book by Menahem Mansoor.

Abstract

"Classic and comprehensive history of Jewish history and thought from the Bible to Israel by the renowned scholar Menachem Mansoor ... This survey of Jewish history and thought spans biblical times through the twentieth century and the establishment of the State of Israel, covering developments that have shaped Judaism, Jewish learning, Jewish experience, and the Jewish people. Based on the author's experience teaching Jewish history, this survey is presented in an outline form and contains charts and other learning aids.

Editions

Published in Hoboken, NJ: Ktav Publishing House, 1991.

Contents

Biblical age I : patriarchs through the conquest ; biblical age ii : the united monarchy -- Biblical age III: the divided kingdom and the prophetic period -- Exile and return -- Hellenism, Rome and Jerusalem -- The Bible as literature, the making of the Bible -- Ancient versions of the Hebrew Bible -- Development of religious thought in the second temple period -- Apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, apocryphal literature -- Jewish sects during the second temple period -- The dead sea scrolls -- The rise of Christianity -- Philo (c. 30 B.C.E.-45 C.E.) -- Josephus (c. 38-100 C.E.) -- Masada -- Discoveries pertaining to the Bar Kokhba revolt -- Jews in Palestine and Babylonia : the great rabbinical schools, oral law -- The Talmud, the Midrash -- Jewish liturgy : background of the prayer book, religious festivals -- Jews under Christian rule : fourth to tenth centuries -- Encounter with Islam -- The golden age of Spain (c. 900-1200), Hebrew poetry in Spain -- Medieval Jewish philosophy, Saadyah Gaon (882-942) -- Medieval Jewish travelogues and chronicles -- Samuel Ibn Nagdela : Ha-Nagid (993-1056), Solomon Ibn Gabirol (c. 1021-1056) -- Rashi (1040-1105), Abraham Ibn Ezra (1089-1164) -- Moses Ibn Ezra (c. 1055-1138), Judah Halevi (1075-1141) -- Maimonides (1035-1204) -- Bahya Ibn Pakuda (c. 1050-1120), Four medieval Jewish writers -- Ethical wills (Tsavaot), Responsa literature -- Jewish communities in medieval France, Germany, and Italy -- The expulsion from Spain -- Joseph Nasi and Manasseh Ben Israel -- Joseph Caro (1488-1575) --Kabbalah, Zohar --Great Kabbalists - Isaac Luria and Hayyim Vital, false messiahs - Shabbetai Tzevi and Jacob Frank -- Baruch Spinoza -- Hasidism -- Haskalah -- Jews in America -- Jewish nightmares in France and Russia -- The Zionist dream, the revival of the Hebrew language and literature -- Yiddish culture -- Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Saul Tschernichowsky, Shmuel Yosef Agnon -- Palestine : Turkey and Great Britain -- Mmodern thought : Rosenzweig, Buber, and Heschel -- The holocaust -- American Jewry in the twentieth century -- The emergence of Israel, modern Hebrew literature -- History of the Jews / (Ellis Rivkin)

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