This is a description of the hardcover editionJudaism Discovered represents painstaking research based on rigorous examination of all available exegetical sources. Deconstructing the rabbinic texts line by line, Michael Hoffman has discovered a terra incognita: Orthodox Judaism as the ideological survival of the most ossified traditions of Babylonian paganism, concealed beneath a complex system of dissimulation and misdirection. His unsparing thesis is a radical challenge to Judaism's claims to Biblical provenance and probity. Hoffman brings to this difficult task...a commitment to long years of personal study and research that will commend this work to all serious readers...I have found his scholarship to be a highly accurate reflection of both the spirit and the content of Talmudic writings... Robert Countess, PhD., Professor Emeritus of New Testament, Tennessee State University PARTIAL LIST OF CONTENTS: Rabbinic hatred for the am ha-aretz - 29 Hatred for heretics - 49 Censorship - 74 Judaism and America - 86 Decoy texts - 124 The Principal Sources of the Divine Law of the Religion of Orthodox Judaism - 126 The Rabbinic Eras - 134 Deceit Mechanism - 136 Hermeneutic of Concealment - 149 Power Over the Court System - 153 Non-negotiable Rabbinic Dogma - 161 The Tarnish on Hillel's Golden Rule - 163 Self-Perpetuating Legal and Textual Arcana - 168 Falsifying Scripture with Gezara Shava - 169 A Hedge Around the Law - 172 Permissible Dissimulation throug