Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan Essays on a variety of topics, from biography to Kabbalah, contemporary movements to cosmic speculation. Publisher: ArtscrollYear: 1983

JF Bierlein "Unusually accessible and useful . . . An eye-opener to readers into the universality and importance of myth in human history and culture."--William E. Paden, Chair, Department of...

Graham Phillips The excavation of a mysterious Egyptian tomb in the early twentieth century holds the key to one of the greatest disasters to strike humankind. Strangely sealed, this was...

Em Richter The Secret of the Storyteller follows the magical journey of Selena Silver, a naive, young flight attendant, as she finds herself embroiled in a Jerusalem uprising. Seeking refuge...

Christopher Hill The translation of the Bible into English in the 16th century was one of the most important events in English history. Hill explores the influence the Bible had...

Martin Goodman A magisterial history of the titanic struggle between the Roman and Jewish worlds that led to the destruction of Jerusalem.Martin Goodman—equally renowned in Jewish and in Roman studies—examines...

David Pryce-Jones As the violence of the Middle East has come to America, many Westerners are stunned and confounded by this new form of mayhem that appears to be a...

Bat Ye'or Indispensable to the Western observer for a full understanding of the complexities of the conflicts in the Middle East, this study analyzes and documents the historical, social, and...

Karen Armstrong Venerated for millennia by three faiths, torn by irreconcilable conflict, conquered, rebuilt, and mourned for again and again, Jerusalem is a sacred city whose very sacredness has engendered...

Bat Ye'or In this study of the legal and social condition of Jews and Christians subjected to Islamic rule (the dhimmis), Bat Ye’or examines various religious and historical sources, using...

Dawkins, Dennett, Harris, Hitchens Forward by Stephen Fry At the dawn of the new atheist movement, the thinkers who became known as “the four horsemen,” the heralds of religion's unraveling—Christopher...

Adina Hoffman A biographical excavation of one of the world’s great, troubled citiesA remarkable view of one of the world’s most beloved and troubled cities, Adina Hoffman’s Till We Have...