Nicholas de Lange (University of Cambridge)

An Introduction to Judaism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Introduction to Religion
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9780521735049
• ISBN-10: 0521735041
• Artikelnr.: 27077609

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.