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Zionist Israel and Apartheid South Africa
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 138.00This book is a comparison of two ethnic-national "apartheid" states ? South Africa and Israel ? which have been in conflict, and how internal dissent has developed. In particular it examines the evolution of effective white protest in South Africa and explores the reasons why comparably powerful movements have not emerged in Israel. The book... more...
Modern Judaism and Historical Consciousness
BRILL 2007; US$ 216.00Draws on the relationship between modern Judaism and historical thinking in Europe, the United States and Israel from the Enlightenment to the present. This work interprets the interaction and the tensions between Jewish historiography and other disciplines such as literature, theology, sociology and philosophy. more...
Making History
BRILL 2006; US$ 212.00The encounter between interpretation and history in the writings of Josephus provides the conceptual framework for this collection of essays. In particular, the question of historical method, both ancient and modern, is explored from a variety of perspectives. more...
Studies in Josephus and the Varieties of Ancient Judaism
BRILL 2006; US$ 166.00Includes articles that relate to the fields studies by Prof Feldman such as biblical interpretation, Judaism and Hellenism, Jews and Gentiles, Josephus, Jewish Literatures of the Second Temple, Mishnah and Talmud periods History of the Mishnah and Talmud periods, Jerusalem, and more. more...
History Upside Down
Encounter Books 2007; US$ 17.95In the United Nations, on university campuses, and among a growing number of our most prestigious Western newspapers, the historical record has been rewritten so thoroughly that Israel is seen as the worst of the oppressive Western occupiers of the Third World. So successful has this propaganda campaign been that Palestinian spinmeisters and their... more...
The Arab-Israeli Conflict
Reaktion Books 2009; US$ 28.95Though more than sixty years have passed since the signing of the proclamation of the State of Israel, the impact of that epochal event continues to shape the political policies and public opinion of not only the Middle East but much of the world. The con more...
Jerusalem's Traitor
Da Capo Press 2009; US$ 28.00From a leading historian, the life and works of Josephus in first-century Jerusalem, during the war against Rome, the siege of Masada, and early Christianity more...
Palestinian Politics after Arafat
Indiana University Press 2010; US$ 21.20The Palestinian national movement reached a dead-end and came close to disintegration at the beginning of the present century. The struggle for power after the death of Yasser Arafat in 2004 signaled the end of a path toward statehood prepared by the Oslo Accords a decade before. The reasons for the... more...
Just Past?
Equinox Publishing Ltd 2005; US$ 45.00During the last decade substantive changes have occurred in the way that archaeology is conducted in the 'Holy Land' as indeed throughout the Near East but one thing never seems to change: archaeology in Israel/Palestine always takes on a political dimension. This book tells the story of the creation of Israeli Archaeology in the 1950s and... more...
Shepherd's Notes: Manners & Customs of Bible Times
B&H Publishing Group 1999; US$ 5.95You grew up using the well known black and yellow striped Cliff's Notes to help you grasp everything from great literary works to algebra. Unfortunately, what ""Cliff"" forgot was the greatest literary work in history: the complete Holy Bible. Enjoy the ease of understanding the Bible like never before, book by book. Shepherd's... more...









