Anyone know of a reliable book on the history of Judaism

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Not from a Catholic perspective, but the standard work I use is A History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ by Emil Schurer (5 vol., Hendrickson).

It’s as comprehensive as a single work gets.
 
A very good book that is a great introduction Thomas Cahil’s The Gift of the Jews.

I have read it numerous times and it enlightens me each read.
 
Khalid said:
Not from a Catholic perspective, but the standard work I use is A History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ by Emil Schurer (5 vol., Hendrickson).

It’s as comprehensive as a single work gets.
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Thank you for the reply my friend. I found it on Amazon for $40. 🙂
 
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Thank you for the reply my friend. I found it on Amazon for $40. 🙂
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It’s new on CBD (Christian Books dot com) for $30 and probably $9 for shipping, at least as of the time of the after-Christmas sale.

CBD has much faster shipping than Amazon, and between quite a bit and very much faster shipping than independent sellers on Amazon, depending on who they are and where they ship from - CBD ships from Massachusetts, so it gets to the Ohio-West Virgina area in a few days even with the cheapest shipping option, and ships the same day always - compare to Amazon’s often four or five days to ship and independent sellers’ extremely slow shipping methods, especially if you order from across the country (California, Washington).

One can find all sorts of comparisons of materials and links to all the sites using the Invisible Hand price-check add-on for Firefox, but it’s lacking on info for lots of Christian materials (focuses mainly on fiction and textbooks for books), or, for commentaries and related stuff (like a history of the Jews, a background commentary) on bestcommentaries.com - it divides the categories nicely, but the rankings can be highly inaccurate, as they’re collected from averaging all of the reviews on review sites, Amazon, etc., and are highly Protestant-biased (they’re also somewhat conservative-biased, with the critical commentaries getting marked down), due to it being based on popular feedback. Not to say that some Protestant commentaries aren’t far better than anything Catholics have by the distance between Earth and Moon (e.g. DA Carson and Kostenberger on John, Darrell Bock on Luke and Acts - he’s nearly as orthodox as the liberal, dogma-denying Catholic Luke Timothy Johnson, a specialist in Luke-Acts-Hebrews and author of virtually all Catholic commentaries on them, although LTJ is still a pretty good moderately conservative exegete - and one of the most vocal critics of the diabolical Jesus Seminar: his volume on Hebrews in the New Testament Library is excellent).
 
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