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　　The author of the runaway bestseller How the Irish Saved

Civilization has done it again. In The Gifts of the Jews Thomas

Cahill takes us on another enchanting journey into history, once

again recreating a time when the actions of a small band of people

had repercussions that are still felt today.

The Gifts of the Jews reveals the critical change that made

western civilization possible. Within the matrix of ancient

religions and philosophies, life was seen as part of an endless

cycle of birth and death; time was like a wheel, spinning

ceaselessly. Yet somehow, the ancient Jews began to see time

differently. For them, time had a beginning and an end; it was a

narrative, whose triumphant conclusion would come in the future.

From this insight came a new conception of men and women as

individuals with unique destinies--a conception that would inform

the Declaration of Independence--and our hopeful belief in progress

and the sense that tomorrow can be better than today. As Thomas

Cahill narrates this momentous shift, he also explains the real

significance of such Biblical figures as Abraham and Sarah, Moses

and the Pharaoh, , Isaiah, and Jeremiah.

Full of compelling stories, insights and humor, The Gifts of the

Jews is an irresistible exploration of history as fascinating and

fun as How the Irish Saved Civilization.

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　　xTHOMAS CAHILL is the author of the best-selling books, How

the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland 's Heroic

Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe, The

Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way

Everyone Thinks and Feels, and Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The

World Before and After Jesus.  These books comprise the first

three volumes of a prospective seven-volume series entitled "The

Hinges of History," in which Cahill recounts formative moments in

Western civilization. In "The Hinges of History," Thomas Cahill

endeavors to retell the story of the Western World through

little-known stories of the great gift-givers, people who

contributed immensely to Western, culture and the evolution of

Western sensibility, thus revealing how we have become the people

we are and why we think and feel the way we do today.

　　Thomas Cahill is best known, in his books and lectures, for

taking on a broad scope of complex history and distilling it into

accessible, instructive, and entertaining narrative. His lively,

engaging writing animates cultures that existed up to five

millennia ago, revealing the lives of his principal characters with

refreshing insight and joy. He writes history, not in its usual

terms of war and catastrophe, but as "narratives of grace, the

recountings of those blessed and inexplicable moments when someone

did something for someone else, saved a life, bestowed a gift, gave

something beyond what was required by circumstance." Unlike all too

many history lessons, a Thomas Cahill history book or speech is

impossible to forget.

　　He has taught at Queens College, Fordham University and Seton

Hall University, served as the North American education

correspondent for the Times of London, and was for many years a

regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times Book Review. Prior to

retiring recently to write full-time, he was director of religious

publishing at Doubleday for six years. He and his wife, Susan, also

an author, founded the now legendary Cahill & Company

Catalogue, much beloved by readers. They divide their time between

New York and Rome.

　　From the Hardcover edition.

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　　Thomas Cahill, author of the bestselling How the

Irish Saved Civilization, continues his

Hinges of History series with The Gifts of the Jews, a

light-handed, popular account of ancient Jewish culture, the

culture of the Bible. The book is written from a decidedly modern

point of view. Cahill notes, for instance, that Abraham moved the

Jews from Ur to the land of Canaan "to improve their prospects,"

and that the leering inhabitants of Sodom surrounded Lot's lodging

"like the ghouls in Night of the Living Dead." The Gifts

of the Jews nonetheless encourages us to see the Old Testament

through ancient eyes--to see its characters not as our

contemporaries but as those of Gilgamesh and Amenhotep. Cahill also

lingers on often-overlooked books of the Bible, such as Ruth, to

discuss changes in ancient sensibility. The result is a fine,

speculative, eminently readable work of history.

媒体评论

　　Persuasive as well as entertaining...Mr. Cahill's book [is] a

gift.--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times

　　"An outstanding and very readable book...highly

recommended."--Library Journal

　　"A very good read, a dramatically effective, often compelling

retelling of the Hebrew Bible."--Charles Gold, Chicago Sun

Times

　　"This is a valuable book, of interest to everyone, religious or

not."

　　--Washington Times

　　"A highly readable, entrancing journey."

　　--San Francisco Chronicle -- Review

书籍介绍

The author of the runaway bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization has done it again. In The Gifts of the Jews Thomas Cahill takes us on another enchanting journey into history, once again recreating a time when the actions of a small band of people had repercussions that are still felt today.

The Gifts of the Jews reveals the critical change that made western civilization possible. Within the matrix of ancient religions and philosophies, life was seen as part of an endless cycle of birth and death; time was like a wheel, spinning ceaselessly. Yet somehow, the ancient Jews began to see time differently. For them, time had a beginning and an end; it was a narrative, whose triumphant conclusion would come in the future. From this insight came a new conception of men and women as individuals with unique destinies--a conception that would inform the Declaration of Independence--and our hopeful belief in progress and the sense that tomorrow can be better than today. As Thomas Cahill narrates this momentous shift, he also explains the real significance of such Biblical figures as Abraham and Sarah, Moses and the Pharaoh, Joshua, Isaiah, and Jeremiah.

Full of compelling stories, insights and humor, The Gifts of the Jews is an irresistible exploration of history as fascinating and fun as How the Irish Saved Civilization.