Reviews for Soncino Books of the Bible

The average rating for Soncino Books of the Bible based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-02-27 00:00:00 Alison Mateus Da Bernardo A "Biblical and Talmudic Botanist" takes on some of the specific problems or issues concerning nature and agriculture in the bible. I LOVED his illustration on the genetics of Jacob's spotted-sheep breeding project. But why, oh, why doesn't he deal with Jonah's qiqayon??

Review # 2 was written on 2019-10-02 00:00:00 Rahul Gumare This book took me a long time to finish but was worth reading to be sure. For one its one of the few books in English on contemporay Portugese history and probably the ONLY one on the social revolution and its recuperation that occurred there between 1974-1976. This case study is a flurry of facts, figures, accronyms and names. Honestly these are only important in terms of his thorough scholarship. i think that the lessons drawn from the whole experience are much much more important. Mailer details how the Left parties served as the "midwives of State capitalism," feeding the Portugese people's desires for change and autonomy into channels which the parties could control. Ultimately this led to a strengthening of capitalism. This book is quite a chronicle of a massive social/political and economic upheaval in Portugal.