Jehuda Reinharz and Yaacov Shavit This volume offers a fascinating look at the complex relationship between Jews and Europe during the past two hundred years, and how the European Jewish...

Erwin W Lutzer This excellent book is so important. It clearly and powerfully explains what the parallels are between Germany's fall from grace and the beginning of our own fall. -...

Robert T Trotter II and Juan Antonio Chavira The practice of curanderismo, or Mexican American folk medicine, is part of a historically and culturally important health care system deeply rooted...

Robert Chazan One of the unanticipated results of the First Crusade in 1095 was a series of violent assaults on major Jewish communities in the Rhineland. Robert Chazan offers the...

Richard Kieckhefer This textbook deals with magic, both natural and demonic, within the broad context of medieval culture. Covering the years c. 500 to 1500, with a chapter on antiquity,...

Peter Richardson In Peter Richardson''s acclaimed study, Herod is seen as a talented, vigorous, lusty, skilful, charismatic, attractive, decisive and influential ruler; however, his personal life was a disaster.' January...

Louise Bruit Zaidman and Pauline Schmitt Pantel This book considers how religious beliefs & cultic rituals were given expression in ancient Greece. The chapters cover ritual, then myth, rooting the...

EW Heaton Ancient Israel emerged as a centralized nation state. The background and significance of this transformation. The role played by Egypt, plus the art and styles that flourished during...

Kenneth R Stow Generations of tourists visiting Rome have ventured into the small section between the Tiber River and the Capitoline Hill whose narrow, dark streets lead to the charming...

Avigdor Shinan and Yair Zakovitch The ancient Israelites believed things that the writers of the Bible wanted them to forget: myths and legends from a pre-biblical world that the new monotheist...

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern A major history of the shtetl's golden ageThe shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been...

Michael E Stone Ancient Judaism questions a broad range of basic assumptions made by students of Second Temple Judaism and calls for a radical rethinking of approaches to Jewish history...