Jack Miles

The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Judaism Jack Miles

Publisher Marketing: Edited by world-renowned scholars under the direction of Pulitzer Prize winner Jack Miles, The Norton Anthology of World Religions provides a flexible library of more than 1,000 primary texts from the world s major religions Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in six portable paperbacks. This anthology unites foundational works the Bhagavad Gita, the Daode jing, the Bible, the Qur an with the writings of scholars, seekers, believers, and skeptics whose voices have kept these religions vital for centuries, allowing instructors to shape a variety of courses. The selections are supported by the meticulously prepared apparatus introductions, explanatory annotations, bibliographies, maps, and glossaries for which Norton Anthologies have set the standard for fifty years. Unprecedented in scope and approach, The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Judaism brings together over 300 texts from pre-Israelite Mesopotamia to post-Holocaust Israel and America. The volume features Jack Miles s illuminating General Introduction How the West Learned to Compare Religions as well as David Biale s Israel among the Nations, a lively primer on Jewish history and the core teachings of Judaism. " Review Citations:

Library Journal 12/01/2014 pg. 130 (EAN 9780393062533, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

New York Times Book Review 12/21/2014 pg. 8 (EAN 9780393062533, Hardcover)

New York Times Book Review 12/28/2014 pg. 22 (EAN 9780393062533, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Miles, Jack Jack Miles (Ph. D. Harvard) is Distinguished Professor of English and Religious Studies with the University of California at Irvine and Senior Fellow for Religious Affairs with the Pacific Council on International Policy. He spent 1960 70 as a Jesuit seminarian, studying at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem before enrolling at Harvard University, where he completed a Ph. D. in Near Eastern languages in 1971. His book GOD: A Biography won a Pulitzer Prize in 1996, and Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God led to his being named a MacArthur Fellow for 2003-07. Contributor Bio:  Biale, David David Biale is the Emanuel Ringelblum Professor of Jewish History at the University of California, Davis. His books include "Blood and Belief: The Circulation of a Symbol between Jews and Christians" and "Eros and the Jews: From Biblical Israel to Contemporary America".