Memoirs of Jews and Catholics in Wartime Italy. Margherita Marchione, Ph.D. Paulist Press, 1997. Hard cover with dust jacket. 259pp. A member of the Religious Teachers Filippini who have a house on via Bottega Oscure, a few blocks from the Jewish Ghetto and from which they had sheltered 114 Jews from 1943-44. Sister Marchione had made it her personal quest…
Born in Warsaw, Poland and the youngest child of a cultured, Zionist family of Ashkenazi Jews, he is a survivor of Bergen-Belsen. He arrived in Palestine in 1945 and passed there in 2001. He was an Israeli professor of organic chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a Holocaust survivor, an intellectual of liberal political bent, and a civil-rights advocate…
Grammar (hardcover, 476pp.) and Workbook (softcover, 303pp) Gary D. Pratico & Miles V. Van Pelt. Zondervan, 2001. Poor student price: €20. – condition: usual student notes, gives up about 1/2 way through …
Io Solo Il Tuo Dio. Il monoteismo nel Pentateuco. Sebastiano Pinto. Cittadella, 2016. Softcover, 160 pagine. student notes and underlining throughout. €5. Come nasce la fede in YHWH? Quando è diventato il solo Dio d’Israele? Perché esige la guerra o il sacrificio umano? Muovendo dalla lettura di alcuni testi del Pentateuco, si prende atto che monoteismo e coscienza dell’elezione procedono…
A Sociology of the Religion of Liberated Israel, 1250-1050 BCE (Biblical Seminar). 916 pages, paperback. This important and substantial study may well prove to represent a breakthrough in the study of the people of Israel during the formative period which preceded the monarchy. Fully aware of the current decline of comprehensive vision in favour of isolated specialisms, Professor Gottwald describes…