ADOLPHE LODS - The Prophets and the Rise of Judaism

London England, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1950. 2nd Impession, Binding: Cloth, Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Harback Hardback. Underlining in pencil to a couple of pages. Previous owners name and date to inside cover. Wear and a couple of small tears to D/J. Price clipped to D/J. Translated by S. H. Hooke. In the first part of this book Professor Lods deals exhaustively with the historic features which were largely responsible for the development and transformation of Judaism. He discusses the characteristics of the great Asiatic empires of Assyria and Babylonia which brough about the downfall of the two Israelite kingdoms; and describes the appearance, in these two little states, of a line of prophets who, in open opposition to the narrow nationalistic religion of their contemporaries, evolved a purer and wider monotheistic ideal. The second part traces the development of Judaism as a new politico-religious growth based on a compromise between the old order and the new tenets of the prophets, and follows its destiny up to the time of the Maccabees. Illustrated. 378 pp.