Papers from the EAA Third Annual Meeting at Ravenna 1997: Classical and medieval

Este libro revive los principales sucesos de los últimos tres milenios de la historia económica, política, religiosa y cultural judía, a partir del hilo conductor de la Biblia. Los cinco primeros libros del Antiguo Testamento obran como metáforas premonitorias de las etapas de la historia del pueblo judío. Así, el autor sigue la trayectoria y las epopeyas individuales y colectivas de los descubridores del monoteísmo que, obligados a financiar el nacimiento del capitalismo, se convirtieron en su principal agente, su primer banquero y su adversario más implacable.

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10 palabras clave sobre Jesús de Nazaret El protagonista de este libro es Jesús de Nazaret, una de las personalidades decisivas de la historia de la humanidad, junto con Confucio, Buda y Sócrates, al decir de Karl Jaspers. Es un personaje de permanente actualidad como incitador de conductas alternativas, despertador de conciencias adormecidas... Es, a su vez, objeto de estudio desde las más plurales disciplinas.

Augusto Pinochet was the most important Third World dictator of the Cold War, and perhaps the most ruthless. In The Dictator's Shadow, United Nations Ambassador Heraldo Munoz takes advantage of his unmatched set of perspectives -- as a former revolutionary who fought the Pinochet regime, as a respected scholar, and as a diplomat -- to tell what this extraordinary figure meant to Chile, the United States, and the world. Pinochet's American backers saw his regime as a bulwark against Communism; his nation was a testing ground for U.S.-inspired economic theories. Countries desiring World Bank...