This work reveals the critical change that made western civilization possible. Within the matrix of ancient religions and philosophies, life was seen as an endless cycle of birth and death; time was like a wheel, spinning irrevocably until ancient Jews began to see time differently, as a narrative whose triumphant conclusion would come in the future. From this insight came a new concept of men and women as individuals with unique destinies, and our hopeful belief in progress and the sense that tomorrow can be better than today.
- ISBN10 074595040X
- ISBN13 9780745950402
- Publish Date 22 September 2000 (first published 16 March 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 January 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Lion Books
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 304
- Language English