Jews — A History Of The

Unlike a dry textbook, it reads like a biography of a people. It is fast-paced but dense with names and dates. 4. Why Read It?

The Babylonian exile and the transition from a cult-based religion to a book-based one. A History of the Jews

Johnson argues that the Jews survived because they were "the people of the book." When they lost their land, they carried their nationhood within their laws and literature. Unlike a dry textbook, it reads like a biography of a people