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Readers with knowledge of the Bible's political, historical, and social context understand it in a way that most modern readers do not. With detailed explanations of the customs, politics, education, and commerce of the era, Sketches of Jewish Social Life in the Time of Christ brings the Bible to life.
Alfred Edersheim's classic, first published in 1876, not only fills a gaping void but does so in a clear and inviting way that will enrich the general reader's Biblical experience. Beginning with scripture and breaking it down, Edersheim describes the geography and climate of Palestine, and explains such things as how much a laborer could expect to earn for a day's work.
Other topics include:
* traveling in Palestine
* Jewish homes
* upbringing of Jewish children
* mothers, daughters, and wives in Israel
* Jewish views on trade, tradesmen, and trades' guilds
* synagogues: their origin, structure and outward arrangements
* ancient Jewish theological literature.
About the Author
Alfred Edersheim (1825-1889) nacido en Austria, en el seno de una familia judia acomodada, curso estudios sobre la Thora y el Talmud en escuelas rabinicas y de lenguas en la Universidad de Viena. Al emigrar a Hungria, se convirtio al cristianismo por la influencia del presbiteriano escoces John Duncan, marcho a Escocia, donde curso estudios de teologia en el New College de Edimburgo y fue ordenado ministro de la Iglesia presbiteriana en 1846. En 1875 se unio a la Iglesia Anglicana, dedicandose a dar conferencias sobre judaismo y cristianismo en la Universidad de Oxford, que finalmente se convertirian en gruesas obras literarias. Desde entonces, Edersheim ha sido mundialmente reconocido y apreciado, como el hombre que mejor ha sabido analizar y explicar al mundo cristiano el contexto de usos y costumbres judaicas que forman el contexto historico del Antiguo Testamento y Nuevo Testamento. Sus dos obras fundamentales y mundialmente conocidas, reeditadas en ingles hasta el dia de hoy son: Old Testament Bible History y The Life and Times of Jesus de Mesiah.
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