[no more apples]

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me.

[devane617]

they got it from a book...

[americanophile]

A good alternative source:
http://www.amazon.com/Jews-Reason-Antisemitism-Dennis-Prager/dp/067155624X

[PC99]

PBS just showed a fantastic documentary on this very subject (The Bible’s Buried Secrets) - you should check it out if you can find a copy or stream it:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bible/about.html

[SkyDancer]

Good book to read is "Customs And Courtesies Of The Bible".

Great overview on Jewish history - how their lives were lived and why they do what they do ....

[MindBender26]

Three tenants of every Jewish Holy Day

1: They tried to kill us
2: We won
3: Let's eat

Mazel tov.

[Bob017]

Howard Metzenberg provides an extensive historical record here. http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/004083.html

If you emailed him, he may be willing to assist.

metzenberg[nospam]@yahoo.com

[MindBender26]

Seriously, never forget that we and and our Jewish brethern are all People of The Book.

That sets us aside from everyone else.

[PAR35]

Folks would have an easier time helping you if you could articulate your questions.

You should probably start by reading at least the first 3 books of the Christian Old Testament. Better still would be to read the whole thing - and then formulate your questions and post them on the Religion board rather than Chat.

[pabianice]

How tragic that the endless war against Jews has removed almost every book on true Jewish history from public view. Instead we have CAIR and its viciously corrupted version of history.

[wendy1946]

The single biggest question in Jewish history involves AD times and not BC and involves the nature of the Khazar kingdom and related Jewish groups in Russia since most Jews ultimately are descended from these groups and many muslims claim and a few scholars claim that these groups converted to Judaism in AD times; that would invalidate the basic historical claim which a majority of Jews have to the land of Israel if it were true. Nonetheless there is an alternate view on the subject involving a famous (or infamous) name.

[Alberta's Child]

I think Jewish history can be summed up pretty well as follows:

1. Jewish history goes back nearly 5,000 years.
2. Chinese history is about 4,000 years old.

Which means, of course, that the Jews wandered in the desert for 1,000 years without any Chinese restaurants.

:-P

[amom]

Good question and I was hoping for some great Q&A on this thread.

I went online and found this website called The Virtual Israel Experience which I hope will help us both better understand.

They say about themselves:
The Virtual Israel Experience is designed for anyone who plans a trip to Israel, hopes to visit in the future or just wants to learn more about the history of the Jewish state.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/index.html

Happy reading.

[Diego1618]

The best place to learn about Jewish history is the Bible. The first place the word Jew is mentioned in the Bible is [II Kings 16:1-6]. This is 1400 years after Abraham (not a Jew); 800 years after Moses (not a Jew) and they (the Jews) are at war against Israel.

1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign. 2 Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father. 3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel. 4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. 5 Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him. 6 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day. Rezin (King of Syria) and Pekah (King of Israel) are allied against Ahaz (King of the Jews)

Most folks just gloss over this not realizing that that all Israelites were not called Jews.....only the tribe of Judah and then Benjamin and Levi were included after the split because of Solomon's sin [I Kings chapter 11].

So....you perhaps should make the distinction whether you are looking at the beginnings of Jewish history, Israelite history.....or just plain old Biblical history.

[Nachum]

There is so much written on the beginnings of Jewish history. You can get very in depth, or basic. It is a lifetime persuit.

Just came back from the Holy Land and toured around the holy sites. The most interesting thing for me was the "tunnel tour" which takes you through the tunnel dig that goes down to the base of Herod's wall (18 cities deep).

[bert]

For a great fictional account, read “The Covenant” by James Mitchner.

It covers pretty much all from the very early years to present

[DallasMike]

You will eventually run into descriptions of Ashkenazi (European) and Sephardi (essentially Middle Eastern) Jews. It turns out that both Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews show a very high degree of similarity regarding the Y (male) chromosome. However, it appears that Ashkenazi males intermarried with European women. Another good article here.

Historically, it has been assumed that Ashkenazi Jews originated near the Caspian and were converts to Judaism. However, genetic studies show that that a large population of Jews (the 10 lost tribes?) migrated to portions of Russia and eastern Europe and spread from there.

[Robwin]

No one can understand the modern history of the Jews without having read The Thirteen Tribe by Arthur Koestler, an excellent writer, a Jew, and a reformed Communist (also read his very moving The God That Failed.

Then after you have read that book also read Ezekiel and at least those chapters with the messages given to the Churches in The Book of The Revelation.

Good luck

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[Pharmboy]

This book, written by a non-Jew, is what I would recommend.

The Jews tend to be less objective.

[rmlew]

What are the questions?