Martin Goodman

A vivid account of the political triumphs and domestic tragedies of the Jewish king Herod the Great during the turmoil of the Roman revolution

Sensitive and engaging I hope everybody reads it Brian EnoA SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024With a foreword by Peter WohllebenHow much can one love a tree Rajasthan in northern India is home to the Bishnoi a community renowned for the extreme lengths they go to in order to protect nature Bishnoi men and women have died to defend trees from loggers and wildlife from poachers Writer and conservationist Martin Goodman one of few trusted outsiders relates the history of the Bishnoi and asks what a world facing climate change and natural disaster can learn from a 600 year old sustainable community leading an existence in delicate balance with nature and under threat from rapacious modernity My Head for a Tree offers a timely reflection on indigenous community based activism and how we might adjust our lives to fight for the natural world

This superb book, by one of the world's leading scholars of the ancient Roman and Jewish worlds, narrates and explains this titanic struggle, showing why Rome's interests were served by this policy of brutal hostility, and how the first generation of Christians first distanced themselves from its Jewish origins and then became increasingly hostile to Jews as their influence spread within the empire. The book thus also provides an exceptional and original account of the origins of anti-Semitism, whose history has had often cataclysmic reverberations down to our own time.

J SS Bach is the story of three generations of women from either side of Germanys 20th Century horror story - one side, a Jewish family from Vienna, the other linked to a ranking Nazi official at Dachau concentration camp - who suffer the consequences of what men do. Fast forward to 1990s California, and two survivors from the families meet. Rosa is a young Australian musicologist; Otto is a world-famous composer and cellist. Music and history link them. A novel of music, the Holocaust, love, and a dog. The authors writing is a wonderland, captivating and drawing the reader in to the presented world. Time becomes no object as a literary universe unfolds and carries the reader through eighty years, where emotions are real and raw and beautifully given.

A panoramic history of Judaism from its origins to the presentJudaism is by some distance the oldest of the three Abrahamic religions. Despite the extraordinarily diverse forms it has taken, the Jewish people have believed themselves bound to God by the same covenant for more than three thousand years. This book explains how Judaism came to be and how it has developed from one age to the next, as well as the ways in which its varieties have related to each other.A History of Judaism ranges from Judaisms inception amidst polytheistic societies in the second and fi rst millennia, through the Jerusalem Temple cult in the centuries preceding its destruction, to the rabbis, mystics and messiahs of medieval and early modern times and, finally, the many expressions of the modern and contemporary Jewish worlds. Throughout, Martin Goodman shows how Judaism has been made and remade over the millennia by individuals as well as communities, and shaped by the cultures and philosophies in which Jews have been immersed. It becomes a truly global story, spanning not only the Middle East, Europe and North Africa, but also China, India and America, andone that untangles the threads of doctrinal and philosophical debate running through Judaisms history. Goodman demonstrates that its numerous strains have often adopted incompatible practices and ideas - about the authority of ancestral traditions, the meaning of scripture, the nature of God, the afterlife and the End of Days - but that disagreement has almost always been tolerated without schism.There have been many histories of the Jewish people but remarkably few attempts to describe the history and evolution of Judaism itself. This panoramic book, the fi rst of its kind in almost seventy years, does glorious justice to the inexhaustible variety of one the worlds great religions.

In AD 70, after a war that had flared sporadically for four years, three Roman legions under the future Emperors Vespasian and his son Titus surrounded, laid siege to, and eventually devastated the city of Jerusalem, destroying completely the magnificent Temple which had been built by Herod only eighty years earlier. What brought about this extraordinary conflict, with its extraordinary consequences? This superb book, by one of the worlds leading scholars of the ancient Roman and Jewish worlds, narrates and explains this titanic struggle, showing why Romes interests were served by this policy of brutal hostility, and how the first generation of Christians first distanced themselves from its Jewish origins and then became increasingly hostile to Jews as their influence spread within the empire. The book thus also provides an exceptional and original account of the origins of anti-Semitism, whose history has had often cataclysmic reverberations down to our own time.

De Polonia a Ghana y de Alaska a China, Client Earth nos embarca en un viaje sobre cómo la ciudadanía puede recurrir al derecho de interés público para proteger el planeta. En estas páginas descubriras el poder del derecho como un arma implacable y con poder de cambio, que todos respetan y reconocen. Esta excepcional e inspiradora organizacion y los testimonios de sus miembros nos devolveran la esperanza.

De Polonia a Ghana y de Alaska a China, Client Earth nos embarca en un viaje sobre cómo la ciudadanía puede recurrir al derecho de interes público para proteger el planeta. En estas páginas descubriras el poder del derecho como un arma implacable y con poder de cambio, que todos respetan y reconocen. Esta excepcional e inspiradora organizacion y los testimonios de sus miembros nos devolveran la esperanza.