Judaism

5784 Jahre Denkgeschichte für die ZukunftShitstorms, Sex, Selbstbestimmung – ein ungewöhnlicher Blick auf aktuelle Themen:Wenn es heute um jüdisches Leben geht, dreht sich die Diskussion – insbesondere in Deutschland – meist um den Holocaust, den arabisch-israelischen Konflikt oder Antisemitismus.

Architectural design can play a role in helping make the past present in meaningful ways when applied to preexisting buildings and places that carry notable and troubling pasts.

This book examines Jewish life in Vienna just after the Nazi-takeover in 1938.

An inspiring how-to guide to help you understand and participate in a Jewish spiritual life.

Die Bibel ist mehr als ein religiöser Text – sie ist ein Fenster in die Vergangenheit, durch das wir die Geschichte der Menschheit und ihre kulturellen Wurzeln betrachten können.

2019 National Jewish Book Award Finalist"e;[A] fascinating biography .

Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) was one of the twentieth century’s most influential Jewish thinkers, a respected theologian and enthusiastic civil rights activist who marched to Selma with Martin Luther King, Jr.

The rate of interfaith marriage in the United States has risen so radically since the sixties that it is difficult to recall how taboo the practice once was.

The first comprehensive, down-to-earth introduction to explain the primary message of Kabbalah-that we are to become like God.

This book surveys the Jewish Law of testimony as presented in the Talmud and its boundaries on loyalty in non-Jewish courts.

Judaism and Jewish life reflect a diversity of identity after the past two centuries of modernization.

Focusing on the concepts of time and the life cycle, this collection of articles examines Jewish life in the Talmudic period through the lens of Jewish law and custom of the time.

In Remembering Genocide an international group of scholars draw on current research from a range of disciplines to explore how communities throughout the world remember genocide.

The first state-of-the-art, comprehensive resource to encompass the wide breadth of the rapidly growing field of Judaism and health.

Negative theology is the attempt to describe God by speaking in terms of what God is not.

Steroid Biochemistry, Volume 688 in the Methods of Enzymology series, highlights new advances in the field, containing chapters on a variety of timely topics, including Cytochrome P450 Enzyme, Steroidogenic P450s (CYP11A1, 17A1, 21A2, 11B1, and 11B5), Steroid 17 alpha-hydroxylase/17,20-lyase (Cytochrome P450 17A1), Enzymes of Estrogen Biosynthesis, Aromatase and Steroid Sulfatase, Estrogenic 17b-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase, Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenases (HSD), 3a-Hydroxyssteroid Dehydrogenase, Approaches to Measuring 3b-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase Type 1, 3b-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase Type 2, and much more.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

This book includes an analysis of the Jehoash Inscription Tablet, which describes renovations made to the First Temple and is considered the only written evidence of its existence.

Codes of Jewish law may look similar, but they represent very different ways of thinking about the law.

First published in 1982, The Triangular Connection explores the relationship between two countries, the USA and Israel, and Jews resident in America.

This book challenges the widely held view which condemns as weak and half-hearted Anglo-Jewish efforts on behalf of European Jews during the Nazi period.

Provides a detailed exegetically based study of Biblical theology, showing the canonical basis for later historical, systematic, and dogmatic theologies.

A Winner of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa 2023 Bernard Lewis PrizeLandes, a medievalist and historian of apocalyptic movements, takes us through the first years of the third millennium (2000-2003), documenting how a radical inability of Westerners to understand the medieval mentality that drove Global Jihad prompted a series of disastrous misinterpretations and misguided reactions that have shaped our so-far unhappy century.

The life and times of this iconic and enduring biblical bookThe Book of Job raises stark questions about the nature and meaning of innocent suffering and the relationship of the human to the divine, yet it is also one of the Bible's most obscure and paradoxical books, one that defies interpretation even today.

Interfaith as a Faith-A Way to Move Past Preaching about Love and Compassion to Actually Practicing Them"e;A commitment to Interfaith is no small commitment.

Jeremiah in History and Tradition examines aspects of the Book of Jeremiah from a variety of perspectives including historical, textual, redaction, and feminist criticism, as well as the history of its reception.

In der Reformationszeit spielt die Auseinandersetzung über den Zins und den Wucher eine bedeutsame Rolle.

This book offers a new way for biblical scholars and archaeologists to envision how the Bible''s story relates to history.

A new look at Rashi''s innovative commentary that sheds unique light on medieval Jewish and Christian learning and Bible interpretation.

Written by the most prominent scholars in American Jewish history, this encyclopedia illuminates the varied experiences of America's Jews and their impact on American society and culture over three and a half centuries.

Heresy is a central concept in the formation of Orthodox Christianity.

Versteht man Entscheiden als einen sozialen Akt, bei dem bestimmte Entscheidungsalternativen gegenübergestellt werden und sich diese Alternativen ausschließen, erkennt man, dass eine Entscheidung immer kontingent ist, sie somit immer anders ausfallen könnte.

An in-depth look at the Christian scripturesfrom a Jewish perspective.

Endlessly cunning, elusive, and playful--the Bible consistently unsettles even as it assures.