Illustrierte Geschichte des Judentums.

by Nicholas DeLange, Christian Rochow (Übersetzer)

By most accounts Jewish history begins with the Babylonians' destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. This well-made compendium, written by many hands, is in agreement. However, The Illustrated History of the Jewish People departs from traditional history in many ways, most notably in its attempts to understand figures who have been reduced to symbols. Herod, for example, "deserved his reputation for ruthlessness, cruelty and paranoia," but was also a product of his time, caught in a complex web of politics only partly of his own making. Editor Nicholas De Lange and the volume's contributors do a fine job of gathering the many strains of Jewish history into a single narrative, which ends with a discussion of the ongoing search for peace in the Middle East.

Genres: History, Jewish, Judaism

464 pages, Hardcover

First published October 15, 1997

Reviews

[Ramón S. · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love to know more and more of the chosen people. This is a highly interesting book which covers a lot of issues and problems. I am catholic and I feel embarrassed of how badly we have treated in the past our older brothers. I recognize it and I know we have to grow in our relationships.
I put three stars because although it is a very good book I found a wound that it is not healed and the author indirectly blame Christians of most of the sufferings of the Jews and that is not totally fair