In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Mesopotamia. By 1492 the Jewish people had become a small group of literate urbanites specializing in crafts, trade, moneylending, and medicine in hundreds of places across the Old World, from Seville to Mangalore What caused this radical change? The


Format Häftad Omfång 344 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Princeton University Press Utgivningsdatum 2014-10-12 ISBN 9780691163512