PART I Origins and the Formative Period A. Malamat 1. Introduction
This ambitious history by six Hebrew University scholars seeks to
encompass the full range of the Jewish experience in nationhood and
exile. It is an impressive work…considering the necessary
compression—5,000 years and a scattering of settings virtually
worldwide covered in just over 1,100 pages—the work is an
achievement of consequence.
*Los Angeles Times*
Here is a work that triumphantly makes available the fruits of a
wealth of learning and scholarship that will surely establish new
standards for the presentation of research.
*Times Literary Supplement*
This huge collection of essays by ‘leading scholars at the Hebrew
University, Jerusalem’ brings to ultimate expression the
‘peoplehood-and-history’ theory of Jewish historiography.
*American Historical Review*
Offering a full panorama of Jewish existence from the dim origins
of the 2nd millennium B.C.E. to the hard politics of modern Israel,
this work breaks new ground for a one-volume history, both in its
range and in its authority… The book as a whole is a monument to
scholarship and feeling, immersing the reader on every page in the
rich texture of the Jewish heritage.
*Commentary*
Represents one of the finest compendia on the topic published to
date.
*Jewish Week*
This work is marked throughout by sound judgment, judicious
scholarship, disdain for irrelevant trivia, and avoidance of
ideology… A remarkable achievement—all in one volume.
*Worldview*
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