Martin Sicker: 15 books
The Book of Daniel
A Study in the Biblical Philosophy of History
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Although there are numerous diverse aspects to Daniel, eschatological, theological, historical, and philological that have long engaged scholars of the work, this study of the text reads it as having a single overarching theme, an exposition of the implicit biblical philosophy of history, which posits...
Geography and Politics Among Nations
An Introduction to Geopolitics
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Geography and Politics Among Nations is intended to assist the general reader to grasp the significance of geopolitical awareness in the conduct of foreign relations. Toward this end, the book begins with a cursory review of selected examples of geopolitical thought from antiquity to the present,...
The Book of the Covenant
A Study in Biblical Interpretation and Exegesis
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
According to the biblical narrative, in addition to the Ten Commandments, Moses received a series of supplementary instructions to guide the people as they set about establishing a society in conformity with the covenant that are to be found in the so-called the Book of the Covenant. The book, which...
The Book of Joshua
A Study in Prophetic History
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
The subject of this study is the prophetic history of Joshua and the first stages of the conquest of the Promised Land, as presented in the Masoretic text of the biblical Book of Joshua. The term prophetic history is employed to describe the subject because prophecy in biblical thought is not fatalistic...
The Moral Philosophy of Judaism
A Study of Fundamentals
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2010
The concern of The Moral Philosophy of Judaism is with the first principles that underlie the approach of Judaic ethics to the manifold issues confronting mankind generally and adherents of Judaism in particular in the contemporary world. The book explores the fundamental biblical concept of mans...
Pondering the Imponderable
Jewish Reflections on God, Revelation, and the Afterlife
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
Pondering the Imponderable explores the philosophical and theological problems of God and their implications from a Judaic perspective including the attempts at knowing the unknowable and naming the unnamable that have been articulated over the course of some two millennia, as well as how the chasm...
The Second Book of Kings
A Study in Prophetic History
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
The subject of this study is the continuing story of the transition of the ancient Israelites from a loose confederation of ethnically related tribes into a territorially based nation and state and its subsequent transition to a monarchy, as depicted in the biblical books of Samuel. The work that...
The First Book of Kings
A Study in Prophetic History
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
The subject of this study is the prophetic history of the succession of Solomon to the throne of the dual monarchy established by David over the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, the centralization of Israelite religion in the Temple of Jerusalem, the collapse of the dual monarchy after the death of Solomon,...
The Second Book of Samuel
A Study in Prophetic History
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
The subject of this study is the story of the rise of David to become the king of Judah and subsequently king of all Israel, and the anything but smooth transition from a tribal confederacy to a centralized state, from the ethnic kingdom of the Israelites to the territorial kingdom of Israel that...
by Martin Sicker
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
The theme that unifies the diverse contents of this biblical work is that of holiness, as the text asserts: Ye shall be holy; for I the Lord your God am holy (Lev. 19:2). The burden of the work is set forth guidelines as to how the children of Israel were to attain that goal. One of the great practical...
The Evolution of Judaism from Ezra to the Present
Part One: Pharisaic Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
The story of the evolution of Judaism from its origins in the remote past into the complex and various forms by which it is known in the present day does not lend itself to a straightforward historical narrative. The following study attempts to understand how the Second Hebrew Commonwealth came into...
The Book of Judges
A Study in Prophetic History
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
The subject of this book is the prophetic history of the political-military leaders, called judges, that succeeded Joshua and led the tribes of Israel during the tumultuous anarchic period between the death of Joshua and the transformation of the Israelite confederation of tribes into a nation-state...
by Martin Sicker
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Perusing this biblical book through a theopolitical prism, it may be seen that another unifying theme that courses through the diverse contents of this biblical work is that of molding the diverse tribes of the children of Israel into a functioning confederacy presided over by an increasingly strong...
The First Book of Samuel
A Study in Prophetic History
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
The subject of this study is the story of Samuel and Saul and the anything but smooth transition of Israel from a tribal confederacy to a centralized state, as presented in the Masoretic text of the First Book of Samuel. The term story rather than history of the transition is employed to describe...
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