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doi:10.1017/S0009640711000084 Vines Intertwined: A History of Jews and Christians from the Babylonian Exile to the Advent of Islam. By Leo Duprée Sandgren. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2010. xxv + 838 pp. $34.99 paper.
This magisterial tome surveys 1,280 years of Jewish and Christian history from 640 B.c.E. from a "maximalist stance" (695). Appropriate to a broad collegelevel readership, the views represent scholarly consensus rather than new scholarship. The chapters are divided by period into chronological...