Judaism: sacred texts and revered writings

First published in 1880, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ became a best-seller.

A magisterial, modern reading of the deepest mysteries in the Kabbalistic tradition.

Das weisheitliche Denken ist Bildungsdenken.

The classic statement of the ideas that form the Jewish people's religious consciousness, by one of the Jewish scholars of our century.

This survey textbook offers an accessible introduction to the wisdom books and Psalms in their literary, theological, and canonical contexts.

The Book of Revelation and Early Jewish Textual Culture explores the relationship between the writing of Revelation and its early audience.

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

Bestselling author Charles Swindoll challenges us to take a closer look at Job's life, carefully examining his response to the unexpected and painful experiences that assaulted his once peaceful and God-honoring existence--and we might just find that Job is a hero after all.

Rabbinic documents of David, progenitor of the Messiah, carry forward the scriptural narrative of David the king.

Is Judaism essentially a religion of laws and commandments?

Reconnect with the power and promise of engagement with Torah-from a modern men's perspective.

Inconsistency in the Torah

Step into the world of the 8th century BCE and uncover the profound messages of Amos, a prophet whose voice called for justice and righteousness in a time of inequality and spiritual complacency.

Addressed to Jews and non-Jews alike, though aware that these two reader groups were likelyn to approach the book with very different presuppositions, Daiches sets out to define Judaism in relation to philosophy, to explain Kant's philosophy through the superiority of halakhah, defend a biblically based Jewish interpretation of history, and champion Judaism as a religion of freedom guaranteed by halakhah (Jewish law).

Introducing students to the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament, Ernest Lucas examines the book's structure and characteristics.

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.

Die Studie untersucht aus einem religionshistorischen Blickwinkel Aussagegehalt und Theologie des Wächterbuches (1 Henoch 1–36) als eigenständiger frühjüdischer Schrift des 3.

A study of psalms echoed in Paul''s letters, offering a reinterpretation of the New Testament''s reception of the Old Testament.

This commentary on the Pentateuch, excerpted from the Fortress Commentary on the Bible: The Old Testament and Apocrypha, engages readers in the work of biblical interpretation.

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Although disability imagery is ubiquitous in the Hebrew Bible, characters with disabilities are not.

"e;Either you believe in possession or you do not.

Created in honor of the work of Professor Tova Forti, this collection considers the natural world in key wisdom books - Proverbs, Job and Qoheleth/Ecclesiastes, Ben Sira and Song of Songs/Solomon - and also examines particular animal and plant imagery in other texts in the Hebrew Bible.

Most studies of the history of interpretation of Song of Songs focus on its interpretation from late antiquity to modernity.

The Oxford Handbook of Historical Books of the Hebrew Bible is a collection of essays that provide resources for the interpretation of the books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah.

Over the first eight centuries CE, the religious cultures of Middle Eastern, Mediterranean and many European lands transformed.

Printed editions of midrashim, rabbinic expositions of the Bible, flooded the market for Hebrew books in the sixteenth century.

Walter Brueggemann declares that the necessary character of truly prophetic preaching today is "e;a contestation between narratives.

In A Beginner's Guide to The Steinsaltz Talmud, Rabbi Judith Z.

This book is the first in-depth comparative analysis of envy, jealousy, and vengefulness experienced by divine personalities in the Hebrew Bible and ancient Greek texts and the functions served by attributing negative emotions and traits to one's gods.

One of the cornerstones of the religious Jewish experience in all its variations is Torah study, and this learning is considered a central criterion for leadership.

Was Esther uniquean anomaly in patriarchal society?

The NIV Application Commentary helps you communicate and apply biblical text effectively in today's context.

In separate multi-volume works, the project has presented form-analytical English translations of the Mishnah, Tosefta, Yerushalmi, and Bavli, outlined the Yerushalmi and the Bavli and compared these outlines.

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

This collected edition presents the texts of the more than 2500 Old and Imperial Aramaic inscriptions (10th-3rd cents.

In his Second Inaugural Address, delivered as the nation was in the throes of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that both sides "e;read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.

Resurrection of the dead represents one of the more enigmatic beliefs of Western religions to many modern readers.

This concise volume provides a lucid introduction to the genesis and development of Rabbinic Judaism.

Telling Terror in Judges 19 explores the value of performing a 'reparative reading' of the terror-filled story of the Levite's pilegesh (commonly referred to as the Levite's concubine) in Judges 19, and how such a reparative reading can be brought to bear upon elements of modern rape culture.