All Formats & Editions

Edersheim was born in Vienna of Jewish parents of culture and wealth. English was spoken in their home, and he became fluent at an early age. He was educated at a local gymnasium and also in the Talmud and Torah at a Hebrew school, and in 1841 he entered the University of Vienna... Read Full Overview

Alfred Edersheim's well-researched account of everyday Jewish life at the time the New Testament Gospels took place remains one of the best texts on the subject ever authored. This edition includes the author's appendixes. The reader is taken back to Israel and the surrounding... Read Full Overview

What was the Middle East like at the time of Jesus' life? Who inhabited this area? Where did people work? How did they travel? What did people live in? Drawing upon Jewish, Roman, Greek and Christian texts Alfred Edersheim reconstructs a vivid image of life in Galilee, Jerusalem... Read Full Overview

Edersheim's classic work, invaluable to ministers, scholars, and writers of historical ficiton, is now available in an easy-to-read format with modernized spellings and illustrations. Foreword by editor Angela Hunt.

For the first time since it originally appeared, this classic work has been newly typeset in an easy-to-read modern typeface, making reading, studying, and consulting easier than ever before. The most relevant citations of Scripture, rabbinic sources, and the works of Philo and... Read Full Overview

A CHRISTIAN HISTORICAL INVESTIGATION
Sketches of Jewish Social Life is an historical overview of Jewish life. It is an must read for anyone studying Jewish and Christian history.
DETAILS:
Includes Christian Illustrations

In this classic work, Alfred Edersheim (1825 -1889) provides a glimpse into the life, customs and traditions of everyday Jewish life of the first century. Edersheim himself was a Messianic Jew and gives great insights from historical sources, Jewish tradition and teaching. He... Read Full Overview

Alfred Edersheim's well-researched account of everyday Jewish life at the time the New Testament Gospels took place remains one of the best texts on the subject ever authored. This edition includes the author's appendixes. The reader is taken back to Israel and the surrounding... Read Full Overview

Excerpt from Sketches of Jewish Social Life in the Days of Christ

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... Read Full Overview

*** This Premium Edition includes An Easy to Read Layout making reading comfortable ***

"In my book on The Temple, its Ministry and Services, I endeavoured to carry the reader with me into the Sanctuary, and to make him witness... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

Sketches of Jewish Social Life in the days of Christ is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1881. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and... Read Full Overview