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David
Aberbach
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Imperialism and Biblical Prophecy, 750-500 BCE
- the Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold
Ariel
Bloch
, Chana
Bloch
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The Song of Songs
*
- a compelling translation of the great Hebrew love poem
Marc Zvi
Brettler
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The Creation of History in Ancient Israel
**
- the biblical authors and their presentations of the past
György
Dalos
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The Circumcision
- a Jewish orphan in post-war Hungary faces a choice
S.D.
Goitein
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A Mediterranean Society
- the Jewish community in medieval Cairo
Leonard
Gross
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The Last Jews in Berlin
- the gripping stories of seven Holocaust survivors
Stefan
Heym
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The King David Report
**
- a very funny novel about the politics of history in the 10th century BC
Primo
Levi
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If Not Now, When?
*
- a novel of Jewish partisans in Russia and Poland in WWII
Torgny
Lindgren
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Bathsheba
- an earthy, mytho-poetic novel about the later days of King David
Nur
Masalha
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Catastrophe Remembered
Palestine, Israel and the Internal Refugees
Ilan
Pappe
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A History of Modern Palestine
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One Land, Two Peoples
Donald B.
Redford
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Egypt, Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times
- from prehistory to the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC
William H.
Stiebing Jr
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Out of the Desert?
Archaeology and the Exodus/Conquest Narratives
Thomas L.
Thompson
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The Bible in History
How Writers Create a Past
Béla
Zsolt
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Nine Suitcases
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- a novel of the Holocaust in Hungary
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