The Jews of Egypt: From Rameses II to Emperor Hadrian

by Joseph Meleze Modrzejewski (Author), Robert Cornman (Translator), Shaye J.D. Cohen (Contributor)

• New

  Paperback
  1997

  $54.43

  Presents the story of the adventures and misadventures of the people of Israel in the land of Egypt the years shrouded in the mists of biblical history under the Pharaohs; the strange intermezzo of the Jewish mercenary detachment on the island of Elephantine on the upper Nile. This title probes a turning point in Western civilization.