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"an Admirable And Impressive Work Of Synthesis That Will Give Insight And Satisfaction To Thousands Of Lay Readers."the Washington Post Book World In This...

While Imprisoned In A Nazi Concentration Camp, Simon Wiesenthal Was Taken One Day From His Work Detail To The Bedside Of A Dying Member Of The S.s. Haunted ...

The story of how and why up to three-quarters of the eight hundred ancient Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts, hidden for some nineteen centuries, have, until v...

#1 New York Times Bestseller Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. ...

ONE BIBLE, MANY ANSWERS In God's Problem the New York Times bestselling author of Misquoting Jesus challenges the contradictory biblical explanations for ...

The author of the runaway bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization has done it again. In The Gifts of the Jews Thomas Cahill takes us on another enchant...

Drawing on the timeless wisdom of the torah.Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis reminds us of the principlesnecessary for living a better and more committed life.Insp...

Some People Seek. Jews Question. And To Answer Their Questions Comes The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia, A Bible Of Judaism That, In Its Deeply Knowing And High...

The Spanish Inquisition Was Responsible For One Of The Fiercest Repressions In Human History. It Fused The Triple Evil Of A Police State, A Totalitarian Ide...

Inspired by the Pope's call for a Holy War, Scandinavian rulers and German military monks conquered and settled Finland, Estonia and Prussia, before turning...

A thousand years ago, the most perfect copy of the Hebrew Bible was written. It was kept safe through one upheaval after another in the Middle East, and by...

It is not easy to overestimate the significance of the Bar Kokhba Revolt. Because of its long-term consequences, it may well be considered the greatest trag...

Huston Smith, The Author Of The Classic Bestseller The World's Religions, Delivers A Passionate, Timely Message: The Human Spirit Is Being Suffocated By The...

The Gifts Of The Jews Reveals The Critical Change That Made Western Civilization Possible. Within The Matrix Of Ancient Religions And Philosophies, Life Was...

judging By Today's Bestseller Lists, One Would Think That Religion Is Either Irrational Or Extreme. What's Missing Is A Genuine Debate Between The Atheists...

The Headlines Are Clear: Religion Is On The Decline In America As Many People Leave Behind Traditional Religious Practices. Diana Butler Bass, Leading Comme...

This lively chronicle of the years 1847–1947—the century when the Jewish people changed how we see the world—is “[a] thrilling and tragic historyâ€...

"[The Book of] Revelation has served as a "language arsenal" in a great many of the social, cultural, and political conflicts in Western history. Again ...

In 2002, an ancient limestone box called the James Ossuary was trumpeted on the world's front pages as the first material evidence of the existence of Jesus...

This is the first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism. The book's unique blend of intellectual, religious, and social...

Lawgiver and liberator. Seer and prophet. The only human permitted to converse with God "face-to-face." Moses is the most commanding presence in the Old Te...

The true story behind Anne Frank's days in hiding from the Nazis during World War II brings a fresh perspective and deeper poignancy to The Diary of a Young...

Arguing that fundamentalism is complex and innovative, and yet a failure in religious terms, Armstrong, a commentator and author on religious affairs, exam...

Unraveling the Mystery of Jesus's Last Days A world-renowned scholar reveals how archaeology has a major role to play not only in how the gospels should ...

the Shocking Secrets Of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Artwork the Recent Cleaning Of The Sistine Chapel Frescoes Removed Layer After Layer Of Centuries Of...

For years, New York's great Jewish banking families have been aloof, mysterious, clannish and arrogant. Considering themselves an elite One Hundred, the fa...

The Cradle Of Civilization Rocked First In India -- Aum And Uma: The Foundational Deities Of Pagan And Non-pagan Religions -- Aryan Orthodoxies And Sind -- ...

Give Me Liberty! is the leading book in the market because it works in the classroom. A single-author book, Give Me Liberty! offers students a consistent a...

Letters To My Palestinian Neighbor Is One Israeli's Powerful Attempt To Reach Beyond The Wall That Separates Israelis And Palestinians And Into The Hearts O...

Why, during the Holocaust, did some ordinary people risk their lives and the lives of their families to help others--even total strangers--while others sto...

A groundbreaking and accessible history of heaven—from the earliest biblical conceptions of the afterlife to the theologians who frame our understandings ...

For thirty years the director of the Wiener Library in London—the leading institute for the study of anti-Semitism—Walter Laqueur here offers both a compr...

"When it's not attached to your head, your very own hair takes on a disconcerting quality. Suddenly, it is strange. And yet hair finds its way into all mann...

In Racing Toward Armageddon, Michael Baigent, the New York Times bestselling author of The Jesus Papers and Holy Blood, Holy Grail, exposes the conspiracy o...

The Exacerbation Of Arab-israeli Conflict At The Time Of The Six-day War In 1967 Gave Birth In Some Quarters To A Radical Revision Of Jewish-arab History. A...

Thou Shalt Innovate Profiles Wondrous Israeli Innovations That Are Collectively Changing The Lives Of Billions Of People Around The World And Explores Why I...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Also on the USA Today, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Globe and Mail, Publishers Weekly, and Indie bestseller lists.On...

James Carroll’s urgent, masterly Jerusalem, Jerusalem uncovers the ways in which the ancient city became a transcendent fantasy that ignites religious fe...

Exploring the subtle political philosophy within the Biblical narrative, this book presents enduring insights that complement Ancient Greek philosophy for ...