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We all know about King David and King Solomon, but what about the kings Omri and Uzziah? Of the more than fifty monarchs who sat on the throne of the Jews for over 1000 years, most of us can recall only a few. What we do remember about them has been colored by legend and embellishment. In Kings of the Jews, Norman Gelb tells us the real stories of them all. And in doing so, he reveals how a...

recite the Shema declaration of faith in their daily prayers: “Hear O Israel! The Lord is our God. The Lord is one.” The experiences in Babylonia shaped much of the pattern of subsequent Jewish life. Isadore Epstein, editor of an English translation of the Babylonian Talmud, said the people of Judah shared the fate of “captivity” suffered by the ten tribes of the long-vanished northern kingdom of Israel. But, “whilst the other tribes vanished and merged with their conquerors, Judah alone survived.
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