Judaism: sacred texts and revered writings

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.

Opening Israel's Scriptures is a collection of thirty-six essays on the Hebrew Bible, from Genesis to Chronicles, which gives powerful insight into the complexity and inexhaustibility of the Hebrew Scriptures as a theological resource.

Opening Israel's Scriptures is a collection of thirty-six essays on the Hebrew Bible, from Genesis to Chronicles, which gives powerful insight into the complexity and inexhaustibility of the Hebrew Scriptures as a theological resource.

Reading Hebrew Bible Narratives introduces readers to narrative traditions of the Old Testament and to methods of interpreting them.

Reading Hebrew Bible Narratives introduces readers to narrative traditions of the Old Testament and to methods of interpreting them.

Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav (1772-1810) is widely considered to be one of the foremost visionary storytellers of the Hasidic movement.

Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav (1772-1810) is widely considered to be one of the foremost visionary storytellers of the Hasidic movement.

Are We Not Men?

Ritual has a primal connection to the idea that a transcendent order - numinous and mysterious, supranatural and elusive, divine and wholly other - gives meaning and purpose to life.

This Oxford Handbook is a serious resource for the study of the literature of the Writings (Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Ruth, Esther, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles, Daniel) of the Hebrew Bible, including its context and its scriptural/canonical shape and reception.

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.

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

When we encounter a text, whether ancient or modern, we typically start at the beginning and work our way toward the end.

Texts after Terror offers an important new theory of rape and sexual violence in the Hebrew Bible.

Texts after Terror offers an important new theory of rape and sexual violence in the Hebrew Bible.

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.

There is general agreement in the field of Biblical studies that study of the formation of the Pentateuch is in disarray.

There is general agreement in the field of Biblical studies that study of the formation of the Pentateuch is in disarray.

It is commonly asserted that heresy is a Christian invention that emerged in late antiquity as Christianity distinguished itself from Judaism.

It is commonly asserted that heresy is a Christian invention that emerged in late antiquity as Christianity distinguished itself from Judaism.

One of the enduring problems in biblical studies is how the Bible came to be written.

One of the enduring problems in biblical studies is how the Bible came to be written.

'Drunk or sober, king or soldier, none will be excluded'Sensual, profound, delighted, wise, Hafez's poems have enchanted their readers for more than 600 years.

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Qumran, Palestine, in 1947 was one of the greatest archaeological finds of all time.

Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature.

The Talmud is one of the most significant religious texts in the world, second only to the Bible in its importance to Judaism.

Composed during a critical time in the evolution of European intellectual life, the works of Meister Eckhart (c.

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Judaean desert between 1947 and 1956 transformed our understanding of the Hebrew Bible, early Judaism and the origins of Christianity.

'Probably the most important archaeological find in history .

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.

A book that challenges our most basic assumptions about Judeo-Christian monotheismContrary to popular belief, Judaism was not always strictly monotheistic.

Peter Enns is brilliant at taking the big topics, those Christian ideas that usually scare us or intimidate us or worry us, and then make those very places a meeting place with a God who is bigger and wilder and more wonderful and trustworthy than we ever could have guessed.

Preeminent biblical scholar and preacher Walter Brueggemann says the book of Jeremiah is not a sermon, but it does sound the cadences of the tradition of Deuteronomy that serve as sermons--that is, as expositions based on remembered and treasured tradition.

¿Estás considerando la paternidad después de los 40?

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.

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.

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 book explores figurative images of the womb and the simile of a woman in labor from the Hebrew Bible, problematizing previous interpretations that present these as disparate images and showing how their interconnectivity embodies relationship with YHWH.

Moving from cosmology to creativity to criminology, the Torah explores the breadth of human existence: ethics and ritual, narratives of Patriarchs and Matriarchs, history and a philosophy of history--all of these drive the first five books of Hebrew Scripture.

An analysis of the Jubilee's interpretation in the ancient texts of early Judaism and Christianity in conversation with Utopian StudiesIn Proclaim Liberty, Jonathan Kaplan examines the Jubilee in its original context, when it primarily referred to an ancient Israelite economic practice: that of announcing liberty for enslaved Israelites every fifty years and returning real estate to its original ancestral owners in that year.

An analysis of the Jubilee's interpretation in the ancient texts of early Judaism and Christianity in conversation with Utopian StudiesIn Proclaim Liberty, Jonathan Kaplan examines the Jubilee in its original context, when it primarily referred to an ancient Israelite economic practice: that of announcing liberty for enslaved Israelites every fifty years and returning real estate to its original ancestral owners in that year.

This groundbreaking work by Richard Smoley, author of fourteen books including Forbidden Faith: The Secret History of Gnosticism and Inner Christianity: A Guide to the Esoteric Tradition, presents the Jewish mystical teaching in a fresh new light.

Explore the contemporary significance of the Old Testament and hear the Word of God afreshThis volume offers insightful commentary on Ezra-Nehemiah and explores its significance for today's readers.

Wahre Reife entsteht nicht zufallig - sie wachst.

Acclaimed environmental writer and activist Bill McKibben turns to the biblical Book of Job to confront the deepest assumptions driving the modern environmental crisis.