Turning Points in Jewish Intellectual History
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 17, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781403917669
Subjects: History of specific racial & ethnic groups; Jewish studies; Judaism - General; History: World; History - General History; Eastern Europe; Middle East; History; Jewish - General; Religion / Judaism / General; Civilization; Jews
First sentence: Hebrew prophecy and much else in the Bible was a product of the two and a half centuries from 750 to 500 BCE, the historical juncture when the center of civilization was about to be wrenched from the Near East to Europe.