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Martin Goodman
A vivid account of the political triumphs and domestic tragedies of the Jewish king Herod the Great during the turmoil of the Roman revolution
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For readers of Barry Lopez and Wade Davis comes a remarkable journey among India's Bishnoi people, passionate defenders of nature whose ecological wisdom carries a powerful message for the world…
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Weaving together the stories of three generations of women from both sides of Germany's 20th century horror story, The Cellist of Dachau explores the ongoing impact of war, and the…
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A coming of age story, set in the English Midlands in the 1960s, and Berlin of 1975.
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Joyful, wild, gay stories from award winning Martin Goodman.
Meet his cast of characters:
New York designer Arnold, whose lovely life blossoms from age 7. We watch him grow famous…
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These collected studies, previously published in diverse places between 1990 and 2006, discuss important and controversial issues in the study of the development of Judaism in the Roman world from…
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A dystopian novel set in London. For sixteen years the Earth has baked and no girls have been born. Karen is the last girl and Steven her gay twin. Dad…
Goodman presents a lucid and balanced picture of the Roman world examining the Roman empire from a variety of perspectives; cultural, political, civic, social and religious.
Bullying is a social phenomenon that defines the contemporary workplace. In France, workplace bullying has emerged as a subject of intense interest and controversy. This study contextualises and analyses a…
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This is an examination of Jewish society and administration in Galilee in the time between the Bar Kokhba war and the proclamation of universal Roman citizenship in CE 212. It…
J SS Bach is the story of three generations of women from either side of Germany's 20th Century horror story - one side, a Jewish family from Vienna, the other…
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This text tackles a central problem of Jewish and comparative religious history: proselytization and the origins of mission in the Early Church. The author offers a controversial theory that mission…
Studies of the social, cultural, and religious history of the Jews in the Graeco-Roman world. Contributors tackle from different angles the extent to which Jews in this period differed from…
A study of the social, cultural, and religious history of the Jews in the Graeco-Roman world. It examines the extent to which Jews in this period differed from other peoples…
This book examines why in AD 66 a revolt against Rome broke out in Judaea, seeking to show that the ultimate cause of the Revolt was a misunderstanding by Rome…
In 70CE, after four years of Jewish rebellion, Roman legions devastated the great city of Jerusalem. Sixty years later, its ruin was completed when Emperor Hadrian built a new city…
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An essential introduction to Josephus’s momentous war narrative The Jewish War is Josephus’s superbly evocative account of the Jewish revolt against Rome, which was crushed in 70 CE with the…
Originally published … in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2007 –T.p. verso.
A comprehensive, illustrated reference combining a concise history of the Soviet Union with a study of its symbolism. Subjects covered include political, communist party, Aeroflot, Soviet space programs, and others…
Martin Goodman MD
Any man-from 27 to 97-can regain their sex life, rebuild their self-confidence and self-esteem in the bedroom and in all areas of their lives…that men should not have to suffer…
Blake Bell,Michael J. Vassallo
Rare pieces of comic art, pulp and magazine history that open the door to Marvel’s unseen past.
Josephus
In AD 70 the city of Jerusalem was destroyed by Roman forces after a 6 month siege, the world-famous temple burnt to the ground. This was the disastrous outcome of…
James Thornton,Martin Goodman
Environmentally, our planet lacks the laws to keep it safe and those laws we do have are feebly enforced. Every new year is the hottest in human history, while forest…
This volume explains to ancient historians the value of the surviving rabbinic material from late-antiquity as evidence for the history of late-Roman Palestine, the nature of that material, and the…
Martin I Goodman
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Martin E Goodman
At first glance, Stuart Ashley looks like any other down-on-his-luck 50-something. His family has grown up, his seemingly happy marriage with Zoe is starting to fall apart, and he has…
The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies is part of a major series of Oxford Handbooks. This substantial volume of c.400,000 words reflects the current state of scholarship as analysed by…
Part of the Oxford Handbooks series, this volume on Jewish Studies aims to produce surveys of modern interests in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Examining Jewish Studies as an academic…
Newly issued in a series of part volumes, the OBC is now available in an affordable and portable format for the books comprising the Apocrypha. Includes a general introduction to…
Johann Reuchlin
A dialogue that focuses on messianism, on the relation of the Pythagorean system to the Kabbalah, and on the ‘practical Kabbalah’.
Jane Martin,Joyce Goodman
Jane Martin and Joyce Goodman explore and celebrate the aims, visions and actions of six little-recognised British women educational activists within nineteenth- and twentieth-century history: Sarah Austin, Jane Chessar, Margaret…
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Jews, Christians and Muslims describe elements of their origins with close reference to the narrative of Abraham, including the complex story of Abraham’s relations with Hagar. This volume sketches the…
This text is a survey of the dialogue between pagans, Jews, and Christians in the Roman empire up to the time when Constantine declared himself a Christian. Each chapter is…
Martin Casado
A series of events developed a year after my declaration of Following my bliss, and the universe had some significant lessons to show me. You can read all the self-improvement…
If a primary objective of feminism is to expose and challenge the social relations of power embedded in all spheres of life, then an exploration of the issues attached to…
James Thornton, REV,Professor of Jewish Studies Martin Goodman (Professor of Jewish Studies University of Oxford Fellow of the British Academy)
Planet Earth needs its own lawyer. James Thornton is that lawyer.
Features essays that cover the whole of the period in which Rome dominated the Mediterranean world. This volume reflects the immense complexity of the political and cultural history of the…
