Heritage: civilization and the Jews

Traces the history of the Jewish people from biblical times to the present, telling their story as part of the broader history of Western civilisation
Part 1.Focuses on Jewish and Near Eastern life and culture from prehistory down to the sixth century B.C. Discusses the Exodus, the birth of Israel, and the Babylonian exile

Part 2 Chronicles the emergence of a Jewish identity based on ideas, not territory, and the intellectual interaction between the Jewish world and classical Greece and Rome.