Books by Donald Harman Akenson and Complete Book Reviews

God's Peoples: Covenant and Land in South Africa
God's Peoples: Covenant and Land in South Africa, Israel, and Ulster
Donald Harman Akenson, Author Cornell University Press $68.5 (404p) ISBN 978-0-8014-2755-8
In Akenson's unorthodox view, the ruling Afrikaners of South Africa, the Jews of modern Israel and the Protestant Ulster-Scots of Northern Ireland share a ``covenantal mindset.'' Inspired by the ancient Hebrews' covenant with their God Yahweh, he...
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Conor: A Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien
Conor: A Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien
Donald Harman Akenson, Author Cornell University Press $69.95 (573p) ISBN 978-0-8014-3086-2
Born in Dublin in 1917 to parents with strong social and political pedigrees, Cruise O'Brien was stunned by his father's death in 1927. With the help of his parents' friends (among them James Joyce), he was able to continue his education through to...
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Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds
Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds
Donald Harman Akenson, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $35 (672p) ISBN 978-0-15-100418-8
Akenson describes his book as a long love letter to the Tanakh, the ""New Testament"" and the Talmuds. Akenson focuses his study on the formation of four sets of texts that lie behind rabbinic Judaism and Christianity. He argues that the first nine...
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