Judaism: sacred texts and revered writings

Jewish Ethics: The Basics demonstrates how ancient and contemporary ideas have shaped and reshaped Jewish traditions about how to act toward others.

A modern reader studying biblical narratives encounters various literary approaches and ways of understanding interpretive concepts.

What does it mean to read the Bible 'literally'?

A new commentary for today's world, The Story of God Bible Commentary explains and illuminates each passage of Scripture in light of the Bible's grand story.

This survey textbook by two respected Old Testament scholars is designed to meet the needs of contemporary undergraduate students.

Erich S.

Plundering the Egyptians focuses on the study of the Old Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary from 1929 to 1998.

Hasidism is an influential spiritual revival movement within Judaism that began in the eighteenth century and continues to thrive today.

In diesem Buch gelingt es erstmals, die literarischen Probleme von II Sam 9 - I Reg 1f zu erklären.

The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible brings together 37 essential essays written by leading international scholars, examining crucial points of analysis within the field of feminist Hebrew Bible studies.

A novel account of pollution in the Hebrew Bible, from its embodied origins, to its metaphorical expression in moral discourse.

Offering a reading of the intermarriage debate and expulsion of the foreign women in Ezra 9-10, this book engages with the production and performance of masculinities in this biblical text, shifting the focus away from the 'foreign women' to the men who are the primary actors in this work.

This volume discusses the Hebrew term 'eres' which is prominently used in Creation and Land theologies in the Bible.

The Pentateuch is the heart of the Hebrew Bible and the foundational document of Judaism.

David Weiss Halivni's The Formation of the Babylonian Talmud, originally published in Hebrew and here translated by Jeffrey L.

A companion series to the acclaimed Word Biblical CommentaryFinding the great themes of the books of the Bible is essential to the study of God's Word and to the preaching and teaching of its truths.

This volume examines Apuleius' comic donkey novel, The Golden Ass, within the context of the popular beliefs and Jewish and Christian writings that were part of the intellectual culture of his own day in 2nd century C.

This book is an exercise in the systematic recourse to anachronism as a theological-exegetical mode of apologetics.

This booklet is a fresh consideration of German-speaking scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls; it divides the scholarship into two phases corresponding with pre- and post 1989 Germany.

Offering a reading of the intermarriage debate and expulsion of the foreign women in Ezra 9-10, this book engages with the production and performance of masculinities in this biblical text, shifting the focus away from the 'foreign women' to the men who are the primary actors in this work.

This volume presents a collection of studies by international experts on various aspects of ancient Israel's society, economy, religion, language, culture, and history, synthesizing archaeological remains and integrating them with discussions of ancient Near Eastern and biblical texts.

Today's professionals need reliable models to teach them how to become better leaders.

In the light of dramatic new interpretative approaches to the Bible this guide to Job follows not only a range of new approaches to the text but also addresses the traditional historical questions and other topical issues.

The concepts of purity and pollution are fundamental to the worldview reflected in the Hebrew Bible, yet the ways biblical texts apply these concepts to sexual relationships remain largely overlooked.

The few popular Bible stories about women are often presented in black and white-the women were good or bad, Ruth or Jezebel.

In this unprecedented masterwork, The Scholar's Haggadah: Ashkenazic, Sephardic, and Oriental Versions, Heinrich Guggenheimer presents the first Haggadah to treat the texts of all Jewish groups on an equal footing and to use their divergences and concurrences as a key to the history of the text and an understanding of its development.

The Midrash: An Introduction sets forth the way in which Judaism reads the Hebrew Bible.

Self-restraint or self-mastery may appear to be the opposite of erotic desire.

Over 2 million copies sold in The Word Biblical Commentary series.

Explore the contemporary significance of the Old Testament and hear the Word of God afreshThis substantive and useful commentary on the book of Numbers is both critically engaged and sensitive to the theological contributions of the text.

Long neglected by scholars, the Dead Sea scrolls rewriting Samuel-Kings shed precious light on the ancient Jewish interpretation of these books.

The book examines the history of the genesis of all the Old Testament texts where there is talk of "Jehovah's Ark" or "The Ark of the Covenant", i.

Der Kommentar umfasst den zweiten Teil des Exodusbuches, Ex 15,22-40,38.

Studying Paul's Letters provides a survey of the most relevant current methods in Paul scholarship.

This guide to Ezra and Nehemiah showcases the latest developments and most up-to-date scholarship on these important texts.

Der koptische Psalmencodex aus al-Mudil ist auf Grund seines hohen Alters (spätes 4.

Pollock argues that Rosenzweig''s The Star of Redemption is devoted to the philosophical task of grasping ''the All'' - the whole of what is - as a system.