TY - BOOK AU - Cahill, Thomas TI - The gifts of the Jews : how a tribe of desert nomads changed the way everyone feels and thinks SN - 074595040X U1 - 909.04924 PY - 2000/// CY - Lion Publishing PB - Oxford KW - Bible. O.T.--History of Biblical events KW - Judaism--History--To 70 A.D KW - Jews--History--To 70 A.D N1 - Includes indexes N2 - An explanation of the origins of some of the world's oldest and most closely-held beliefs. Within the matrix of ancient religions and philosophies, life was seen as an endless cycle of birth and death, until the ancient Jews began to see time differently ER -