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قراءة كتاب A Thousand Years of Jewish History From the days of Alexander the Great to the Moslem Conquest of Spain

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A Thousand Years of Jewish History
From the days of Alexander the Great to the Moslem Conquest of Spain

A Thousand Years of Jewish History From the days of Alexander the Great to the Moslem Conquest of Spain

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دار النشر: Project Gutenberg
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Brass Coin struck in Rome during reign of Vespasian, indicating Judea's overthrow 189 Brass Coin of Nerva, marking the withdrawal of certain abuses in connection with the Jewish Tax 205 Coin of the Second Revolt of Bar Cochba 216 ———— Map, Palestine Before the War, 66 B.C.E. Front Map, The Diaspora Back

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLES.

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Under Persian Sway 17
Greek and Jew 26
Greco-Syria and the Maccabees 33, 45
The Hasmonean House 73
Emperors and Procurators 120, 152
Rome and Jewry after Judea's overthrow 201
Emperors and Rabbis 229
The Talmud's compilation and Rome's fall 250
In Christian Europe and Moslem Arabia 281

Themes for Discussion

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I. Discuss the relations between Judaism as law and Mendelssohn's statement that "Judaism is not a revealed religion but a revealed legislation." 25
II. What was the significance of the defeat of Persia by Greece for civilization in general and for the Jew in particular? 30
IV. Had the Hasmoneans the right to assume the office of High Priest? 51
V. Compare the treatment of wisdom in Proverbs (viii) and in Ecclesiasticus. 66
VI. Are there traces of Greek philosophy in the Septuagint? 71
VII. Compare modern with ancient parties in Israel. 84
VIII. Contrast the Wood Festival of ancient Judea with Arbor Day in modern America. 90
X. Single out great events in Israel influenced by, and influencing the Jews. 101
XI. Did Herod succeed or did he fail? 110
XII. Is it possible, as Hillel said, to evolve the whole law from the Golden Rule? 116
XIV. Does official Judaism discourage conversion? Why did the Jews oppose a census on religious grounds? 126
XV. Why cannot Jesus be accepted by the synagogue to-day? 135
XVI. Why did most heathen converts to Judaism ultimately become Christians?

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