Jews, God and History Quotes

“These laws permitted them to identify themselves with the cultures of peoples in every land in which they resided without having to lose their identity The Jews had learned the art of separation of church and state.”
― Max I. Dimont, Jews, God, and History

“The Jews devised, four centuries before Christ, a legal system based on the dignity of man and individual equality before the law, while Europe still had trial by ordeal as late as the fifteenth century. The rabbis viewed law as a vehicle for justice; laws without justice were regarded as immoral. Even though the Jews in those days had no jury system,16 the procedures for the indictment and trial of an accused person were similar to the procedures in American courts today.”
― Max I. Dimont, Jews, God, and History

“In the year 458 B.C., with the permission of the Persian king, Ezra headed the second mass exodus of eighteen hundred Jews from Babylonia to Jerusalem.”
― Max I. Dimont, Jews, God, and History