Sicker sheds new light on the political circumstances surrounding the emergence of Rabbinic Judaism and Christianity. He places the 300-year history of Judaea from the Hasmoneans to Bar Kokhba, 167 B.
Many people have heard the term "Talmud" but have little or no idea what it is, what it contains, and why it was written; moreover, few have ever actually looked into one of its works, and even fewer
Although there are numerous diverse aspects to Daniel, eschatological, theological, historical, and philological that have long engaged scholars of the work, this study of the text reads it as having
Sicker views a century of Middle East history from a perspective that illustrates the interaction of global and regional geopolitics and the effects of Great Power involvement on regional stability. H
Sicker explores the political history of the Middle East from antiquity to the Arab conquest from a geopolitical perspective. He provides ample evidence that geographical and religious factors conditi
Sicker, a private consultant and lecturer who has written extensively on political science and international affairs, considers the essential features of the properly ordered or orthocratic state. He
