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Wanderings : Chaim Potok's history of the Jews.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Knopf, 1978.Edition: 1st edDescription: xv, 431 pages : illustrations ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 0394501101
  • 9780394501109
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Wanderings.DDC classification:
  • 909/.04/924
LOC classification:
  • DS117 .P65
Contents:
Sumer : the wandering Mesopotamians -- Egypt : the silent Nile -- Canaan : the rival covenants -- Babylonia : the new Mesopotamians -- Greece : war on the margin of the map -- Rome : legions from Rome -- Palestine : rabbis from Yavneh -- Islam : nightingales in a sandstorm -- Christianity : lost in the enchanted land -- Secularism : messiahs for a broken world.
Summary: Surveys the 4,000-year history of the Jewish people from the time of Abraham to the present.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-408) and index.

Sumer : the wandering Mesopotamians -- Egypt : the silent Nile -- Canaan : the rival covenants -- Babylonia : the new Mesopotamians -- Greece : war on the margin of the map -- Rome : legions from Rome -- Palestine : rabbis from Yavneh -- Islam : nightingales in a sandstorm -- Christianity : lost in the enchanted land -- Secularism : messiahs for a broken world.

Surveys the 4,000-year history of the Jewish people from the time of Abraham to the present.

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