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Even if one has never read any Judaic literature, he or she will have some notion of what it is after reading this book.

This book is written for the vast majority of adults who either attend synagogue or have a general interest in Judaism, whether Jewish or not.

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The author presnets a personal attempt to answer the question: "Where was God at Auschwitz" and to discuss the central issues of Jewish thought. The text discusses early thinkers and argues that modern radical theologians have little to add to our understanding of God and the Judaic perspective.

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A fresh look at ancient Middle Eastern and Roman history that will be invaluable for students and scholars of ancient history, post-biblical Jewish history and of Christian origins.

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This work argues that much of the historical writing on modern Israel is apologetic and editorially filtered in conformity with a traditional Zionist historiography. This work aims to present an unromanticized recapitulation of the events and personalities that led to the birth of modern Israel.

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Sicker asserts that the Mosaic canon, the Pentateuch, is first and foremost a library of essentially political teachings and documents, and that the first eleven chapters of the book of Genesis set forth in essence a general Mosaic political philosophy.

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Sicker examines the early stages of the process by which Palestine, an obscure and relatively miniscule backwater of the Ottoman Empire, became a critical factor in the history and convoluted politics of the modern Middle East.

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In his provocative analysis of Soviet goals in Southwest Asia, particularly Iran, Sicker argues that Soviet imperialism in this area exhibits a remarkable consistency from tsarist times to the present.

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Its existence is a reality of everyday life, yet the notion of the state is not well understood. Sicker does not consider this as just another academic question: The citizen's moral obligation to obey the state is intimately related to the legitimacy of the state's authority and the latter depends largely on its sources.

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Sicker examines the role of the United States within the Western Hemisphere and the geopolitical and geostrategic factors that have helped shape its policies in the region.

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In the view of Dr. Martin Sicker, it was with the emergence of Islam that the combination of geopolitics and religion reached its most volatile form and provided the ideological context for war and peace in the Middle East for more than a millennium.

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This volume examines the geopolitical forces and other factors that brought about the political decline of the Islamic world. It traces the long era of Muslim ascendency that reached its pinnacle with the siege of Vienna in 1529 and the subsequent decline of Ottoman power.

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In providing a rare systematic study of rabbinic political thinking -- as well as a basis for study of how its underlying theory might apply to contemporary political areanas -- The Judaic State proves to be valuable material to scholars of political philosophy, religion and society, and Jewish studies.

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The Making of a Pariah State takes the reader behind the flamboyance and apparent irrationality of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi to expose his attempt to impose national cohesion on the Arab, Muslim, and Third World elements under his leadership.

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The geopolitical history of the Middle East in the twentieth century, which falls into three relatively distinct phases, is best understood when approached simultaneously from the global and the regional perspectives.

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Sicker examines the fundamental issues of the relationship of the individual to society and state, the implications for public policy of the Judaic focus on social justice, and the rabbinic approach to the problems of national security, from the perspective of a distinctive Judaic political culture

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An examination of the fundamental norms of civic conduct considered essential to the emergence and moral viability of the "good society" envisioned in the source documents and traditions of Judaism. It covers the tensions in Jewish thought regarding the concept of democracy.

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When Congress enacted Social Secuirty in 1935, with the age of retirement set at age 65, average life expectancy was 62 years. Since the enactment of Medicare, life expectancy has risen to age 76 today and may be expected to increase further in the decades to come.

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Sicker shows that the political history of the pre-Islamic Middle East provides ample evidence that the geopolitical and religious factors conditioning political decision-making tended to promote military solutions to political problems, making conflict resolution through war the norm, with the peaceful settlement of disputes quite rare.

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By subjecting biblical writings to a political analysis, Sicker constructs a plausible political history of the ancient Israelite states that dealt with virtually every issue faced by governments throughout subsequent history.

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The USSR's different spheres of influence each present their own special problems. Part II addresses current problems in Soviet geostrategic politics and includes discussions on their evolution and the necessity of their solution in order to preserve the viability of the USSR's spheres of influence.