A collection of writings of the past 5000 years that are part of the rich cultural heritage of the Hebrew people and of the world-taken from the Old Testament, the Apocrypha, the Twelve Testaments, the Confessions of Josephus, the New Testament, the Talmudic writers, Spinoza through to the modern period of Moses Mendelssohn, Heinrich Heine, Sholom Asch. Huntting.