Judaism: sacred texts and revered writings

This book examines a wide range of theologians, philosophers, and exegetes who share a passionate engagement with Maimonides.

The Texts @ Contexts series gathers scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social locations to bring new or unfamiliar facets of biblical texts to light.

Stephen J.

Noting that Israel's earliest responses to earth-shaking changes were cast in the powerfully expressive language of poetry, Hugh R.

Before the Bible reveals the landscape of scripture in an era prior to the crystallization of the rabbinic Bible and the canonization of the Christian Bible.

In recent decades, there has been a resurgence of interest among both secular and religious Israelis in Talmudic stories.

The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion offers a comprehensive exploration of the dynamics of religious conversion, which for centuries has profoundly shaped societies, cultures, and individuals throughout the world.

The phenomenon of South Korean Christianity is, in a word, remarkable.

The Latter Prophets--Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Book of the Twelve--comprise a fascinating collection of prophetic oracles, narratives, and vision reports from ancient Israel and Judah.

The author writes: "e;Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak HaCohen Kook (5635-5695/1865-1935) was one of the greatest Jewish leaders of recent history.

This book explores the question: How did the rabbis of the first two centuries CE approach bodies that are born with variant genitals-bodies that they could not identify as definitely male or female?

In this now-classic work, E.

There is no easy answer to the meaning of life--even when you believe in God.

In the history of the Greek translation of the Bible, there are two recensions that play a very important role.

The assault on traditional marriage that began in the late 1990s seemingly ended with the 2015 Obergefell v.

Following a detailed introduction to the world of messianic ideology and its significance in Jewish history, The Messiah Texts traces the progress of the messianic legend from its biblical beginnings to contemporary expressions.

Many Jewish groups of late antiquity assumed that they were obligated to observe the Divine Law.

Text as Revelation analyses the shift of revelatory experiences from oral to written that is described in ancient Jewish literature, including rabbinic texts.

Few writers have a deeper understanding of the foibles of human nature and life's absurdities and tragedies than William Shakespeare.

The question of how the Bible received its unusual form has been a question addressed by scholars since critical study of the text began.

Michael Levi Rodkinson (1845-1904) was a journalist, author, and publisher whose literary projects spanned numerous countries and continents.

In this unique volume Judith Abrams, author of the highly regarded series The Talmud for Beginners, examines the episodes recorded in rabbinic literature that suggest the actions of the women of those times.

This workbook accompanies Gary Edward Schnittjer's Torah Story.

The Bible offers a beginning.

The description of creation as it appears in the Bible makes no sense.

The Babylonia Talmud is an immense collection of laws, practices, and customs of the Jewish people, edited in its present form in the fifth century.

In this unique volume Judith Abrams, author of the highly regarded series The Talmud for Beginners, examines the episodes recorded in rabbinic literature that suggest the actions of the women of those times.

Miika Tucker comprises a translation technical study of the Septuagint version of Jeremiah for the purpose of characterizing the translation.

This third volume completes the set of a groundbreaking reception history of the Psalter, the culmination of two decades' work In Volume Threeof Psalms Through the Centuries: A Reception History Commentary on Psalms 73-151, the internationally recognized biblical scholar Professor Susan Gillingham examines the Jewish and Christian cultural and reception history of Books Three to Five of the Psalter.

Fathers, sons, and mothers take center stage in the Bibles grand narratives, Amy Kalmanofsky observes.

Originally published in 1933, from the preface in volume one: "e;The aim of this particular venture is to present the writings now collected in the volume called the Bible in an order approaching that in which they came into being.

The volume offers an overview of the diverse Jewish experiences in Southeastern Europe from the 19th to the 21st centuries, and the various forms and strategies of their representation in literature, the arts, historiography and philosophy.

An indispensable resource for everyone who cares about the Jewish future.

Why does the Torah begin with the letter beit, the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet?

Studying the many ideas about how giving charity atones for sin and other rewards in late antique rabbinic literature, this volume contains many, varied, and even conflicting ideas, as the multiplicity must be recognized and allowed expression.

This book presents a new framework for understanding the relationship between biblical narrative and rabbinic law.

The biblical figure Melchizedek appears just twice in the Hebrew Bible, and once more in the Christian New Testament.

This book is dedicated to an analysis of the writings of modern religious Jewish thinkers who adopted a neo-fundamentalist, illusionary, apologetic approach, opposing the notion that there may sometimes be a contradiction between reason and revelation.