Israel Book Reviews Samples For Students

The dictionary is a very useful book in any area of study; it provides the definition needed by students or any person who has an interest in any field of study. It provides the right reference now only to words but also some issues that need clarification. There are very few bible dictionaries; however, most of them are not detailed and just give a highlight and simple definitions without t making in-depth explanation.
The Bible Dictionary is written by John .Davis and who is a professor of Semitic Philology and the Old Testament History. The Bible Dictionary is very useful for ...

Anti-Semitism and the American Far is written by Left by Stephen H. Norwood. It is a systematic study reflecting over the American’s the role in combating and propagating anti-Semitism which is far forgotten. This book summarizes the communists as early as 1920 onwards and the Trotskyites. It also covers the New Left together with the allies who were black nationalists, the New Left’s present-day remnants. It analyzes the opposition which was shown to the Jewish culture by the far left’s and the occasional efforts which were employed to promote the same Jewish culture. It traces the far ...

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Palestine: Peace not Apartheid is a strong and general forceful book written by former President Jimmy Carter which attempts to portray the issue of Palestine and Israel in a more clear and factful light. Some writers and especially Jewish scholars have contested several of Carter’s theories in the book where he espouses the dictum that Israel’s hostile control and semi dictatorship in the occupied Palestinian territories are principal obstacles in the peace process. Carter also focuses at length on the talks he had hosted between President Begim of Israel and Anwar Sadat that led to the famous Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty ...

The narration given by Joe Sacco is an eye opening narration. Joe has used his vast knowledge of narration to express the suffering Palestine undergoes in the hand of Israel. Joe has used fiction character to portray the political scene in Palestine. Joe has depicted how the political activities affect the Palestine people in their very day life. Joe is also an audience in the book. This mean he gives the first hand information about the Palestine life. In his participation part, he seems to take sides with the Palestine. For instance, there is a place he reported having participated ...

Brooks’ book ‘World War Z’ is a masterpiece in recollections on what went on in another life. The Zombies which permeate the narrative and the ten year war which went on for a decade are apt comparisons to the Frankenstein story although Brooks is more concerned with inefficiency and government ineptitude faced by the American nation.
Brooks also uses the oral interview extensively to create situations where the reader is made to understand the zombies better since the war is being waged against them. The reactions of several governments to the pandemic created by the zombies as well as the ...

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The book explores the tragedy which struck the family of Israel-American Miko Peled. The scene is believed to have occurred in the year 1997. The book examines the thirteen years old nice by the name Smadar of Miko Peled had been killed by the suicidal bombers in Jerusalem. Peled had been born into a prominent family. The family was described as the Zionist military.
The father to Peled was a very prominent general in the military. However, after the Israel aggression war that took place in the year 1967, his father turned to be an advocate of peace. The tragic ...

The authors of the book seek to identify the reasons that can be attributed to Israel’s economic success despite the nation’s small size both geographically and by population. Israel as a nation is faced by the some of the most formidable challenges in its pursuit of economic development. The country exists in a neighborhood of hostility, and many of its Arabic neighbors do not have any economic ties with the country. This economic isolation has meant that the country does not enjoy the economic benefits of regional integration. However, despite this challenge, the country has experienced tremendous economic growth ...

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The main idea of this reading is the assertion that there is currently a gap in Jewish scholarship about the religion’s teachings concerning the avoidance of conflict. While there have been some scholars who have managed to identify passages that establish the idea of a “just” war, dating back to Maimonides, and there have been other scholars who have noted that rabbinic literature establishes peace as a “supreme ethical principle” (Gopin, p. 111). Because the country of Israel faces many threats to its continued political existence, there has been significant discussion among rabbinical scholars about how to find a way to ...

PART ONE

THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS
EXODUS
This is a law book, the second book in the Hebrew bible and is also one of the Torah books that are believed to have been authored by Moses himself. The book simply means the act of going out.
The main theme addressed in the book is all about the suffering of the Israelites and their departure from the land of Egypt to their promised land. The theme of salvation and theophany are manifested in this book whereby the meaning of God’s salvation history through actions that give identity to the ...

BOOK REVIEW OF THE NEW ARAB REVOLT: WHAT HAPPENED, WHAT IT MEANS, AND WHAT COMES NEXT

The New Arab Revolt: What Happened, What It Means, and What Comes Next perfectly illuminates the settings and the happenings associated with the revolutions that have been taking place in the Middle East. This book is a collection of about sixty articles that have been compiled into a single volume.

It has endeavored to provide even illustrations of interview proceedings, various testimonies of congressional parties, op-eds (articles expressing a personal viewpoint written for the op-ed section of a newspaper) from various experts and other think-tanks in the field including Lewis Bernard, Anderson Lisa, Taleb Nicholas, Benn Aluf among several other experts.

It has ...

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In this seminal book which is around 400 pages long, the author manages to cram a detailed history of the Middle eastern problem from the early years of the 1800’s to the present day. He succinctly manages to combine what occurred in the Colonial period where the Arab peoples were consistently exploited for their rich natural resources while he also manages to keep an open mind on other issues such as the traditions of Islam as well as several intrinsic problems which permeate the area and which have continued to this day.
Essentially Mansfield offers a study of the ...

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This book review examines the book Criminals in the Bible by Professor Mark Jones. It examines the bases and features of criminal justice and the criminalizing process across different timelines and eras. The review examines the constitutional elements of different criminal justice systems and generations and how it relates to specific aspects of society.
The book review assesses and evaluates some of the elements of society including chapter analysis and how serious crimes occur. The main discovery of this book review is that crime and criminalizing is done within the context and framework of dominant constitutional processes and generally ...

(Task #1) Introduction
This paper will look at Treasure Island a young adult, coming of age, adventure fiction novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. The story was first published as a book on November 14, 1883 by Cassell and Co., after originating in as a serial in the children’s magazine Young Folk from 1881-1882. The original title of work was Treasure Island, or the Mutiny of the Hispaniola and Stevenson was credited under the pseudonym of Captain George North. However, the first title that Stevenson had wanted to bestow on his story was the Sea Cook which was a ...

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Britain played a crucial role in shaping the economic and political history through the way it colonized various countries in the Middle East and North Africa. The aspects of European imperialism are shown clearly how it influenced the economic and political activities in the countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Several forms of European imperialism were reflected between the period of 1750 to 1914 in countries like Algeria, Egypt and Tunisia. Napoleon brought a great influence and impact in Egypt while French colonization in Algeria contributed to the way various economic and political forces were shaped in such countries. ...

Yahya Hakki’s The Lamp of Umm Hashim is a tale embedded in colonialism where the Egyptian protagonist Ismail goes to Europe for higher studies. It is a quintessential tale of ‘colonized meets colonizer.’ Egypt was under colonial rule and throughout the text, there are strong current of stereotypical representations f differences that had come to characterize the dichotomy of East vs. West. While in Europe, Ismail is exposed to the scientific way of thinking as he goes about learning ophthalmology. As scientific enlightenment piles on, his traditional and religious beliefs begin to wean away. Alienation in a foreign country notwithstanding, when Ismail ...

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In this excellent book, David Aikman focuses on the importance of China as a rising power in world religion and raises some intriguing points especially with regard to China also being an ally against radical Islam. Interestingly enough it appears that global politics is also changing in the way religion seems to be the driving force behind everything these days and this is reflected in the book by Aikman.

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The book starts out by pointing out that at least one third of China’s huge 1.4 billion population will be Christian. This brings several factors into account. For many years, ...

Book Review

Book Review 2: ‘Children of Dust’ by Ali Eteraz
Background Introduction
The book ‘Children of Dust’ by Ali Eteraz focuses on his narrative regarding his religion centered childhood. He grew up in a deeply religious Islamic family, and like most children, he follows in the same religion pathway as his parents. However, Abir Eteraz’s relationship with the religion identity is far way complex than his peers and age mates in his neighborhood in America. With time, the young boy becomes fanatical and obsessed with Islamic faith with the limited comprehension of a child. Largely, his parents are a ...

This is the only book that has comprehensively analyzed the globalization of the American Apparel industry. Allen Israel Rosen spent almost 10 years investigating the US domestic apparel workers’ problems. She is now probing for the changes in the trade policies and the global economics which have been responsible for changes in the global textile industry. In her book, “Making Sweatshops” she probes the possibility of promoting globalization in a way that blends both economic development and globalization in both developed and developing countries, (Rosen, 3). Rosen bases her concern on economic and social justice. She focuses mostly on ...

Revolution, Revival and Religious Conflict in Sandinista Nicaragua by Calvin L. Smith

In his book, Smith brings out the rise of the Sandinistas. The course of their rise is along the emblements of social, economic and political spheres. In this regard, the rise was envisaged in the year nineteen seventy nine. It is significant to denote that, the war was facilitated by religion on a great extent. The protestant believers are believed to have significantly supported ambitions of the Sandinistas. In essence, this followed a schism along religious lines in the United States of America. Proactively, the Sandinistas were anti-Christian. In the same cordial relationship between the Protestants and the Evangelicals, it was ...

In "Confessions of an Economic Hitman," John Perkins tells the story about how he and others like him were able to have a huge impact on the world today in ways that many of the elite in society would rather keep secret. The story involves a lot of deceit, murderers, and traitors who are motivated by greed and power. Perkins gives details on how strong countries have the power to exploit another and even goes so far as to influence their politics. He explains how some countries are willing to go to extremes such as robbing another country of their natural resources, ...

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CHAPTER 2: THE LOST WORD (p.17- 43)

God dropped his bombshell in the form of Amos. He came as a prophet of doom for Church and nation. He said that God was going to judge His people, the retribution wheel is already spinning and it would spin faster. Recent disaster like earthquake, drought, and famine, epidemic showed God’s displeasure clearly, but this was just the beginning. As in verse Amos 8:11, because of the many sins of Israel and Judah, and the ‘falling away’ of Church, God sent a famine in the land. Not famine of bread or thirst, but of hearing the words ...

Shaul Magid’s (2013) idea of Jewish identity is very different from the views of the past. Instead of looking at the people who make up the community as a whole, he took the elements outside Judaism and helped those factors shape the overall identity of Jews or what it means to be a Jew. Unlike the stereotypical images of the past, Magid (2013) fuses these different elements and separates Jewishness in a way that it makes sense in a post-modern world. His post-ethnic idea of Judaism is groundbreaking because he defines culture in such a multifaceted way. Instead of taking a look at Jews ...