From Mesopotamia To Modernity

This book is a one-volume introduction to both Jewish history and literature from its earliest times up to the present, covering many major aspects of Jewish studies from the Bible through modern Judaism. It is designed to serve undergraduate and graduate courses in Judaism.

Burton Visotzky holds the Nathan and Janet Appleman Chair in Midrash and Interreligious Studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He has served as the Associate and Acting Dean of the Graduate School (1991-96), as the founding Rabbi of the egalitarian worship service of the Seminary Synagogue and as the director of the Louis Finkelstein Institute for Religious and Social Studies at JTS. David Fishman.