List of Maps
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Additional Notes on Biblical Texts
1. Imagining the Beginning: The Call to Abraham, ~1500 BCE?
2. Liberation from Slavery: The Exodus from Egypt, ~1200 BCE?
3. The Covenant: Revelation at Sinai, ~1200 BCE?
4. Entering the Promised Land: Crossing the Jordan, ~1200 BCE?
5. Establishing a State: “Give Us a King!” ~1000 BCE
6. The Fall of Israel: Exile of the Ten Tribes, 722 BCE
7. The Babylonian Exile: The Destruction of the First Temple, 586 BCE
8. The Second Temple: Return to Zion, 538 BCE
9. Confronting the Challenge of Hellenism: The Hasmonean Revolt, 167 BCE
10. Roman Rule: The Great Revolt and Destruction of the Second Temple, 70
CE
11. Finding a Messianic Equilibrium: The Bar Kokhba Revolt, 132–135 CE
12. The Oral Law Becomes Literature: The Mishnah, ~200 CE
13. The Golden Age of Iberian Jewry: Maimonides, 700–1100 CE
14. The Rise of Eastern European Jewry: The Crusades, 1100–1300 CE
15. Kabbalah Enters the Mainstream: Nahmanides, ~1300 CE
16. The End of Iberian Jewry: Conversion, Expulsion, Diaspora, 1300–1600 CE
17. The Rise and Collapse of Polish Jewry: The Cossack Revolt, 1648 CE
18. The Rise of Hasidism: The Baal Shem Tov and His Disciples, ~1750 CE
19. The Challenge of Emancipation: The Napoleonic Sanhedrin, ~1780–1880 CE
20. Reform and Reaction: The Hamburg Temple, 1818 CE
21. The Rise of North American Jewry: The Great Migration, 1881–1924 CE
22. Jewish Nationalism: Theodor Herzl, 1896 CE
23. The Secular Zionist Revolution: Ahad Ha’am, ~1900 CE
24. Zionist Settlement of the Land of Israel: First and Second Aliyot,
1882–1914 CE
25. The Destruction of European Jewry: The Holocaust, 1933–45 CE
26. The Jewish State: Proclaiming and Defending Independence, 1948 CE
27. East Meets West: The Mass Aliyah from North Africa and the Mideast,
1949–64 CE
28. Benefits and Costs of Military Power: The Six-Day War, 1967 CE
29. The Feminist Revolution: The Ordination of Women, 1972 CE
30. The Fall of the Iron Curtain: The Liberation of Soviet Jewry, 1989 CE
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
