A select list of recipients of Yad Vashem's "Righteous Among the Nations" title and their stories of courage and humanity.

The first full-length presentation of Jewish life, history, and culture in California from the Gold Rush to the twenty-first century.

A collection of essays which have appeared over a period of two decades in various journals and anthologies are brought together in this volume. From his unique position as a Jewish scholar of the New Testament, Dr. Sandmel has written A Jewish Understanding of the New Testament, We Jews and Jesus, The First Christian Century, The Genius of Paul and The Hebrew Scriptures, among his many previous books. This collection brings together an important body of his work that has been all but inaccessible to the general reader and often difficult for the scholar to locate. The essays reflect not only the author's particular bent in scholarship, but a viewpoint toward both academic matters and matters touching on Jewish-Christian relations. They show both the growth of his career in biblical scholarship and some measure of its influence on other scholars. Some selections have been often cited in scholarly writings (such as "Parallelomania") and others ("The Haggada Within Scripture") demonstrate new approaches to interpretation. Primarily, the volume demonstrates the fresh and vital approach to many questions of interest to the specialist and layman alike from a scholar who has become, through his writings, a pivotal figure in Jewish-Christian understanding.

In the midst of the remarkable revival of interest and belief in angels comes this handsomely illustrated reference work--the fruit of 16 years of research in Talmudic, gnostic, cabalistic, apocalyptic, patristic, and legendary texts. "A wacky and wonderful compendium of angelic lore".--Time. Illustrations.

In this book, Samuel Sandmel traces the history, institutions and ideas of Judaism from 200 B.C. to 175 A.D. Drawing on sources ranging from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, the Rabbinic literature, the histories of Josephus, and the Qumran scrolls to the Epistles of Paul, the Gospels and, the Acts of the Apostles, he documents the growth of Synagogue Judaism and its influence on the early Christian Church.

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.