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  • The Book of the Covenant

    A Study in Biblical Interpretation and Exegesis

    by Martin Sicker ...
    According to the biblical narrative, in addition to the Ten Commandments, Moses received a series of supplementary instructions to guide the people as they set about establishing a society in conformity with the covenant that are to be found in the so-called the Book of the Covenant. The book, which is imbedded in the biblical book of Exodus essentially contains addenda or amendments to ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Pondering the Imponderable

    Jewish Reflections on God, Revelation, and the Afterlife

    by Martin Sicker ...
    Pondering the Imponderable explores the philosophical and theological problems of God and their implications from a Judaic perspective including the attempts at knowing the unknowable and naming the unnamable that have been articulated over the course of some two millennia, as well as how the chasm between man and God is bridged through revelation and the implications of these ideas for the ... Read more

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  • A Political History of Judea from 609 Bce to 135 Ce

    by Martin Sicker ...
    The geopolitical history of the Middle East in antiquity is principally the story of the continuing struggle for domination of the trade routes of the eastern littoral of the Mediterranean Sea, some of the most valued of which passed through the relatively narrow strip of territory stretching from the Egyptian frontier in the Sinai desert to southern Syria, and from there to Mesopotamia. That ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Evolution of Judaism from Ezra to the Present

    Part Two: Rabbinic Judaism

    by Martin Sicker ...
    Pharisaic Judaism, discussed in part 1 of this study, was an inseparable element in the political history of the Second Hebrew Commonwealth. With the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, along with the skeleton of what was once a Jewish state, Judaism entered a period of crisis far more severe than experienced with the destruction of the First Temple, along with the First Hebrew ... Read more

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  • The Evolution of Judaism from Ezra to the Present

    Part One: Pharisaic Judaism

    by Martin Sicker ...
    The story of the evolution of Judaism from its origins in the remote past into the complex and various forms by which it is known in the present day does not lend itself to a straightforward historical narrative. The following study attempts to understand how the Second Hebrew Commonwealth came into being and the critical role that Mosaic religion played in the process, which resulted in what may ... Read more

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  • War and Peace in Judaic Thought

    by Martin Sicker ...
    Judaic thought on the role of war in the history of the children of Israel begins with the biblical narratives that record a variety of belligerencies in which God is often depicted as the one who leads the Hebrews in battle, protects them from their enemies, and makes them victorious over other armies. Thus, during the initial phase of the exodus from Egypt, when the people were terrified by the ... Read more

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  • The Book of Judges

    A Study in Prophetic History

    by Martin Sicker ...
    The subject of this book is the prophetic history of the political-military leaders, called judges, that succeeded Joshua and led the tribes of Israel during the tumultuous anarchic period between the death of Joshua and the transformation of the Israelite confederation of tribes into a nation-state (as subsequently described in the biblical book of Samuel, presented in the Masoretic text of the ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Geography and Politics Among Nations

    An Introduction to Geopolitics

    by Martin Sicker ...
    Geography and Politics Among Nations is intended to assist the general reader to grasp the significance of geopolitical awareness in the conduct of foreign relations. Toward this end, the book begins with a cursory review of selected examples of geopolitical thought from antiquity to the present, which illustrates some of the main tendencies in geopolitical thinking throughout history. This survey ... Read more

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  • The Book of Joshua

    A Study in Prophetic History

    by Martin Sicker ...
    The subject of this study is the prophetic history of Joshua and the first stages of the conquest of the Promised Land, as presented in the Masoretic text of the biblical Book of Joshua. The term prophetic history is employed to describe the subject because prophecy in biblical thought is not fatalistic and does not predict future events. What it does do is assert that the moral course that a ... Read more

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  • The Moral Philosophy of Judaism

    A Study of Fundamentals

    by Martin Sicker ...
    The concern of The Moral Philosophy of Judaism is with the first principles that underlie the approach of Judaic ethics to the manifold issues confronting mankind generally and adherents of Judaism in particular in the contemporary world. The book explores the fundamental biblical concept of mans moral autonomy and its implications, the meaning and significance of the fundamental biblical doctrine ... Read more

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  • The Book of Daniel

    A Study in the Biblical Philosophy of History

    by Martin Sicker ...
    Although there are numerous diverse aspects to Daniel, eschatological, theological, historical, and philological that have long engaged scholars of the work, this study of the text reads it as having a single overarching theme, an exposition of the implicit biblical philosophy of history, which posits the divine role in history as understood from a prophetic perspective. The prophetic idea of ... Read more

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  • Judaism, Nationalism, and the Land of Israel

    by Martin Sicker ...
    This book provides unique insights into the profound religious and cultural issues underlying the increasingly ideological divisions within Israeli society over the questions of territorial concessions and the future character of the state. It explores the significant distinctions between modern Zionism, a primarily secular nationalist movement modeled after the European movements of the ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD