The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels

The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels
ISBN: 0385482493 | 238 pages | PDF | 15.74 MB

The originator of the runaway bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization has granted it again. In The Gifts of the Jews Thomas Cahill takes us in c~tinuance another enchanting journey into history, once again recreating a time which time the >actions of a small band of people had repercussions that are motionless felt today.

The Gifts of the Jews reveals the critical vary that made western civilization possible. Within the matrix of ancient religions and philosophies, life was seen in the same proportion that part of an endless cycle of birth and death; time was like a wheel, spinning ceaselessly. Yet in some way, the ancient Jews began to see time differently. For them, time had a beginning and an end; it was a narrative, whose triumphant conclusion would tend hitherward in the future. From this insight came a new conception of men and women for the re~on that individuals with unique destinies--a conception that would inform the Declaration of Independence--and our hopeful believing in progress and the sense that tomorrow can be better than today. As Thomas Cahill narrates this of importance shift, he also explains the real significance of such Biblical figures for the re~on that Abraham and Sarah, Moses and the Pharaoh, Joshua, Isaiah, and Jeremiah.

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