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Teaching Comparative Religion Through Art and Architecture Center for Middle Eastern Studies - University of California - Berkeley Three Monotheistic Religions: Judaism, Christianity, Islam Objectives: This exercise is intended in part to communicate information about the three major monotheistic religions of the Middle East--Judaism, Christianity and Islam--about beliefs, events, symbols, institutions and practices important to the three religions.

Images and translations of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

The scrolls and scroll fragments recovered in the Qumran environs represent a voluminous body of Jewish documents, a veritable "library", dating from the third century B.C.E. to 68 C.E. Unquestionably, the "library," which is the greatest manuscript find of the twentieth century, demonstrates the rich literary activity of Second Temple Period Jewry and sheds insight into centuries pivotal to both Judaism and Christianity.

I begin this very concise history of Christianity with a concise history of Judaism. Its only a few pages, kind of a primer. http://www.textbooksfree.org/Editorial%20A%20Concise%20History%20of%20Christianity.htm

"Echoes and Reflections Student/Teacher Resource Center. On this section of the site, you will have an opportunity to learn more about the Holocaust as well as gain access to additional primary sources, such as photographs, artifacts, documents, and online exhibitions."

A no-doubt perfectly impartial, disinterested version of Israel's ancient, medieval and modern history. 'The Iranian Threat' gets its own link...

A useful resource for the Crusades.

How good are the History Sourcebooks? Mr Paul Halsall, you are a legend. Here is another fine offering.

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust offers an overview of the people and events of the Holocaust. Extensive teacher resources are included."> This is a cached version of http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/default.htm. Diigo.com has no relation to the site.x


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Another of the excellent sourcebooks run by those Jesuits at Fordham Uni. This is the best online primary source research for the ancient world I've found.