Download or read book Major Turning Points in Jewish Intellectual History written by D. Aberbach and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-11-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes major transformations in Jewish life and thought: from idolatry to exclusive monotheism in the biblical age, from state-based identity to cultural nationalism in the Roman empire; and, in the European Diaspora, from theology to secularism and revived political nationalism in the modern period. Fundamental questions are asked about Jewish survival in a variety of topics including prophecy, Jewish law, Midrash, the Roman-Jewish wars, Stoicism, secular poetry in Muslim Spain, Marx and Freud, and Hebrew literature through the ages.