Judaism: sacred texts and revered writings

This book situates the book of Esther in the intellectual history of Ancient Judaism and provides a new understanding of its purpose.

Written BY Preachers and Teachers FOR Preachers and TeachersCombining fresh insights with readable exposition and relatable examples, The Preacher's Commentary will help you minister to others and see their lives transformed through the power of God's Word.

This book examines community identity in the post-exilic temple community in Ezra-Nehemiah, and explores the possible influences that the Achaemenids, the ruling Persian dynasty, might have had on its construction.

The most powerful Hasidic teachings made accessible-from some of the world's preeminent authorities on Jewish thought and spirituality.

The central proposition of God's Prescription for Mental Health and Religion is that the highway to mental health of individuals and of society is God's prescription of selfless devotion and service to others.

Not every lie sounds untrue.

Im biblischen Buch der Klagelieder werden nicht nur fünf Klagetexte nebeneinandergestellt.

First published in 2004, The Jewish Study Bible is a landmark, one-volume resource tailored especially for the needs of students of the Hebrew Bible.

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

Every generation seeks to apply the Bible's timeless truth about God to its context.

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

Unlock the mysteries of one of the most profound works of Jewish mysticism in The Light of Kabbalah: Discovering the Secrets of the Zohar.

This volume (in French) contains the editio princeps of the second part (4Q550-583) of the Aramaic texts from Cave 4 at Qumran which were originally assigned to Pere Jean Starcky (4Q521-578).

This collection of papers arrives from the eighth annual symposium between the Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies of Tel Aviv University and the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the University of Ruhr, Bochum held in Bochum, June 2007.

Rabbinical literature forms the second canon of Judaism: Mishnah and Talmud, which were written in Palestine and Mesopotamia between 200 and 800 CE.

Leading figures at the dawn of the sixteenth-century Reformation commonly faced the charge of "e;judaizing"e;: 72 In His Name concerns the changing views of four such men starting with their kabbalistic treatment of the 72 divine names of angels.

Enter into the mystery of the Sabbath, into the wonder and light of the seventh day.

In diesem Band wird eine philologisch exakte wort- und strukturgetreue deutsche Neuübersetzung des zweiten Teils (Kapitel 25-52) des hebräischen Jeremiabuches und gleichzeitig eine Neuübersetzung des griechischen Jeremiabuches vorgelegt; beide antike Textfassungen unterscheiden sich in Bezug auf Struktur und Umfang signifikant.

Although they ministered for more than three centuries during some of Israel's most tumultuous days, the Minor Prophets remain a mystery to many Christians in the 21st century.

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Hiob, der leidende Gerechte, wurde in der Weltliteratur zum Symbol für das Rätsel des Bösen.

In Halakhic Positions of Rabbi Joseph B.

When Maimonides' Mishneh Torah (Code of Jewish Law) reached Lunel, France, a group of scholars composed twenty-four objections to his positions.

One in a series of twenty Old Testament verse-by-verse commentary books edited by Max Anders.

The Book of Sirach raises many questions: philological, exegetical, literary, historical, theological.

Winner of the 2016 Goldstein-Goren Award for the best book in Jewish Thought At once a study of biblical theology and modern Jewish thought, this volume describes a “participatory theory of revelation” as it addresses the ways biblical authors and contemporary theologians alike understand the process of revelation and hence the authority of the law.

Narrative and Document in the Rabbinic Canon, Volume I is a study of the inclusion of biographical narratives about sages in components of the unfolding canon of Rabbinic Judaism in the formative age.

When over 900 followers of the Peoples Temple religious group committed suicide in 1978, they left a legacy of suspicion and fear.

Sometimes it is easy to view the Old Testament as difficult to apply to our day-to-day lives.

Die Gestalt des Mose ist eng mit dem Glauben an den einen und einzigen Gott verbunden, weshalb ihm eine besondere Stellung in Judentum, Christentum und Islam zukommt.

Are you or someone you love desperate for a miracle?

Who is the biblical Gideon?

Originally published in 1955, and containing some 500 passages, this Biblical anthology brings together, in their original wording, the highest expressions of the Biblical view of life.

This title explores why Christians have different ways of looking at time, at how the life of the church is ordered and organized by days, weeks, seasons, and years.

An exhaustive cross-referencing tool for interpreting Scripture with Scripture.

The emergence of monotheism encourages human equality and justice for the poor when understood properly by believers.

In the texts of Genesis 18 and 32, God appears to a patriarch in person and is referred to by the narrator as a man, both times by the Hebrew word ish.