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Pierre Vidal-naquet, Internationally Celebrated Author Of Assassins Of Memory: Essays On The Denial Of The Holocaust, Here Takes Readers On A Fascinating Journey Through Key Phases Of Jewish History Over More Than Two Millennia. Drawing On A Vast Reservoir Of Historical Knowledge, Vidal-naquet Unravels A Series Of Myths And Ideologies That Have Become Entangled With Jewish History Over The Centuries. The Jews Covers Subjects As Deep In The Past As The Jewish Encounter With Hellenization In The Second Century B.c.e., And As Current As Modern-day Israeli-palestinian Relations. The Jews Opens In The Classical Period, Looking In Particular At The Work Of Flavius Josephus, Who Wrote The Original Account Of The Events At Masada. Resisting The Powerful Currents Of Ideological Orthodoxy, Vidal-naquet Examines What He Views As Israeli Nationalist Distortions Of The Historical And Archaeological Record At Masada.^ In The Promotion Of An Ideal Of Jewish Unity In The Ancient World, He Contends, Some Have Chosen To Ignore Evidence Of Pluralism, Civil Strife, And The Power Of The Diaspora Experience In The Jewish Past. The Book Continues With An Engaging Discussion Of The Era Of Jewish Emancipat

Author

Pierre Vidal-Naquet

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231102094

Subjects

History, Humanities