Judaism for Beginners (Beginners Series)

Rating:
Summary: Very poorly written book....
Review: I have several of the Beginner's Guide books so I'm familiar with the format, but found this one to be very poorly written and structured.

The author leaves several key points unexplained:

1) Conflict of Heritage is claimed as being important, but is not explained.
2) The writing down of the Oral Law was forbidden, yet it was done anyway. Why is this ok? Why was it forbidden in the first place? These points are not addressed
3) The history starts with Abraham...but surely he had parents, and they were probably important. The story of Jesus has his parents in it!

With these, and other key points missing, as well as some difficulty in getting the whole idea of the bits and peices of the Torah straight, I had REAL PROBLEMS with this book.

Rating:
Summary: Great 'beginners series'
Review: These books are designed like a comic book or 'for dummies' book, but the detail and explanation is excellent.

A must for people who want to learn about the Jewish culture.