雷蒙德•P.谢德林，美国犹太神学院中世纪希伯来语文学教授，文化史学家、著名作家兼拉比。著有《葡萄酒、女人和死亡：中世纪希伯来语诗歌论美好生活》（犹太出版社1986年版）等多部专著，并译有多种中世纪希伯来语诗集和《约伯记》。2004年荣获美国国家犹太文化基金会所颁发的文化成就奖。

A Short History of the Jewish People fills a gap in the literature by providing a concise, popularly written narrative account that introduces readers to all of the major political events, wanderings, cultural environments, and individuals to contribute to the shaping of the Jewish people into who they are today. Organized chronologically, the book covers the entire sweep of th...(展开全部)

Bestselling new analysis of Jewish history by a leading Israeli historian. A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand argues that most modern Jews descend from co...(展开全部)

施罗默·桑德 Shlomo Sand ，以色列特拉维夫大学历史学教授，曾任教于法国社会科学高等研究院。1946年出生于奥地利林茨，是大屠杀中幸存下来的波兰裔犹太人，幼年时生活在难民收容所，1948年举家迁往雅法。1982年获得法国社会科学高等研究院博士学 位，致力于民族 与民族主义、法国知识分子历史、电影史等研究领域。其著作《虚构的犹太民族》《虚构的以色列地》《我为何放弃做犹太人》被称为“虚构三部曲”，在以色列和西方学界引起轰动与争议。 另著有《知识分子、真相和权力：从德雷福斯事件到海湾战争》（Intellectuals, Truth and Power: From the Dreyfus Affair to the Gulf War）、《词语和土地：以色列知识分子和民族主义神话》（The Words and the Land: Israeli In...(展开全部)

施罗默·桑德 Shlomo Sand ，以色列特拉维夫大学历史学教授，曾任教于法国社会科学高等研究院。1946年出生于奥地利林茨，是大屠杀中幸存下来的波兰裔犹太人，幼年时生活在难民收容所，1948年举家迁往雅法。1982年获得法国社会科学高等研究院博士学 位，致力于民族 与民族主义、法国知识分子历史、电影史等研究领域。其著作《虚构的犹太民族》《虚构的以色列地》《我为何放弃做犹太人》被称为“虚构三部曲”，在以色列和西方学界引起轰动与争议。 另著有《知识分子、真相和权力：从德雷福斯事件到海湾战争》（Intellectuals, Truth and Power: From the Dreyfus Affair to the Gulf War）、《词语和土地：以色列知识分子和民族主义神话》（The Words and the Land: Israeli In...(展开全部)

Bestselling new analysis of Jewish history by a leading Israeli historian. A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand argues that most modern Jews descend from co...(展开全部)

Great conquerors appear in the dim light of that distant time and pass, Tushratta, King of Mitanni, who captured Nineveh, Tiglath Pileser I of Assyria who conquered Babylon. At last the Assyrians became the greatest military power of the time. Tiglath Pileser III conquered Babylon in 745 B.C. and founded what historians call the New Assyrian Empire. Iron had also come now into ...(展开全部)

In this investigative tour de force, Victor I. Stoichita untangles the history of one of the most enduring technical and symbolic challenges to beset Western artists - the depiction and meanings of shadows. The representation of shadow, and especially of cast shadow, is as old as art itself, for according to classical writers art was born when the outline of a human shadow thro...(展开全部)

The Battle of Hastings in 1066 is the one date forever seared on the British national psyche. It enabled the Norman Conquest that marked the end of Anglo-Saxon England. But there was much more to the Normans than the invading army Duke William shipped over from Normandy to the shores of Sussex. How a band of marauding warriors established some of the most powerful kingdoms in E...(展开全部)