Modern World Religions: Judaism Pupil Book Core

This magisterial Norton Anthology, edited by world-renowned scholars, offers a portable library of more than 1,000 primary texts from the world’s major religions. To help readers encounter strikingly unfamiliar texts with pleasure; accessible introductions, headnotes, annotations, pronouncing glossaries, maps, illustrations and chronologies are provided. For readers of any religion or none, The Norton Anthology of World Religions opens new worlds that, as Miles writes, invite us \"to see others with a measure of openness, empathy, and good will...\" Unprecedented in scope and approach, The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Judaism brings together over 300 texts from pre-Israelite Mesopotamia to post-Holocaust Israel and America. The volume features Jack Miles’s illuminating General Introduction—“How the West Learned to Compare Religions”—as well as David Biale’s “Israel among the Nations,” a lively primer on Jewish history and the core teachings of Judaism. Σελίδες: 800, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0219, Διαστάσεις: 15.2x15.2cm