Judaism Today

by Dan Cohn-Sherbok

Book Overview

For nearly four millennia Judaism was essentially a unified religious system based on shared traditions. Despite the emergence of various sub-groups through the centuries such as the Sadducees, Pharisees, Essenes, Karaites, Shabbateans and Hasadim, Jewry was united in the belief in a providential God who had chosen the Jews as his special people and given them a code of law.

In the modern period, however, the Jewish religion has fragmented...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826422314
• ISBN13: 9780826422316
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"