The History of Ancient Israel by Michael Grant

The History of Ancient Israel by Michael Grant

This is the epic story of Jewish civilization from its beginnings to the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in AD 70. The book deals with Israel's relations with the great empires which shaped its development and with the changing internal structure of the Jewish state. Part of the tale is told by excavations, which reveal many aspects of the material culture and everyday life of those times. However, the major source is the Hebrew Bible, the Christian Old Testament, which is an unparalleled, massively varied compendium that includes a great deal of the world's earliest historical writing and has inspired the literature, art and ethics of half the world.

Michael Grant is a highly successful and renowned historian of the ancient world. He has held many academic posts including those of Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; Professor of Humanity at Edinburgh University; Vice Chancellor of The Queen's University, Belfast and Vice Chancellor of the University of Khartoum. He is a Doctor of Letters at Dublin and a Doctor of Laws at Belfast. He has also been President of the Classical Association of England, the Virgil Society and the Royal Numismatic Society, and is a Medallist of the Ame

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ISBN 13	9780753801802
ISBN 10	0753801809
Titel	The History of Ancient Israel
Autor	Michael Grant
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Orion Publishing Co
Erscheinungsjahr	1997-10-06
Seitenanzahl	320
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