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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.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
NF NF Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction 909 POT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34517000205826

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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