The Great Courses - Beginnings of Judaism 24 Lessons on 12 Audio CDs

Includes 24 Lectures on 12 Audio CDs - Lecture CDs Only - No Book For thousands of years, Jews have looked to the Hebrew Bible for their origins, and have located in them the tenets of their faith. However, much of what is recognized today as Judaism does not appear in the Bible. In this series of 24 spirited and provocative lectures, Professor Gafni investigates how the Jewish faith struggled to continually redefine itself during the first thousand years after the completion of the last books of the Hebrew Bible. The two landmark events that altered Jewish history forever were the two destructions of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. This sacred place was first destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 B.C.E., and, after having been rebuilt 70 years later, was razed once again by the Romans in 70 C.E., after the Jews waged a fierce uprising against Roman rule in the province of Judea. --- LOCHOMETBD