Bøker av Carlos Ripoll

Although there are no words in the Hebrew scriptures for "human rights", the values this concept represents were inherent in the earliest Jewish texts. These essays explore themes such as man's being born in the image of God, conscience, democracy and personal liberty in the texts.

Areligion or a culture like Judaism, at least three thousand years old, cannot be expected to be all of one piece, homogeneous, self-contained, consistent, a neatly constructed system of ideas. If Judaism were that, it would have died centuries ago and would be a subject of interest only to the historian and archaeologist.

This brief volume is an eloquent statement on the meaning of Jose Marti's thought as well as on how his thought has been harnessed to the needs of ideology in present-day Cuba

This brief volume is an eloquent statement on the meaning of Jose Marti's thought as well as on how his thought has been harnessed to the needs of ideology in present-day Cuba