Becoming a Mensch is a "e;user's guide"e; to becoming a better person, taking readers through a process of personal growth by means of modern-day vignettes that draw upon the Talmud's ancient wisdom.
Judaic Spiritual Psychotherapy is in the contemporary mode of utilizing the profound insights present in spiritual literature for psychotherapeutic use.
Scholars have questioned every aspect of the story of Mattathias in 1 Maccabees; the revisionist narrative turns Mattathias and his Maccabees from the heroes of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah and idealistic fighters for religious freedom, into merely ambitious men who ruthlessly strove for power and usurped the high priesthood of Judaea.
Before the Arabo-Muslim conquest of 698, the Jews lived peacefully in North Africa with the other inhabitants of the region, except for a few brief periods of Roman and Byzantine rules.
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.
Does the American Jewish experience represent a singular communal circumstance, or does it repeat, with obvious and unavoidable variation, the older European pattern of Jewish existence?
Reveals how medieval Jews developed religious law through contact with their Muslim neighborsAfter Revelation offers a dynamic new perspective on medieval Jewish legal thought and its integration in the wider Islamic world.
"e;The Rise of the Babylonian Empire"e; surveys Babylonian history during the transitional period between 631 and 585 BC, from the end of Ashurbanipal's reign to the first half of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II.
"e;The Rise of the Babylonian Empire"e; surveys Babylonian history during the transitional period between 631 and 585 BC, from the end of Ashurbanipal's reign to the first half of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II.
El Testamento de los doce patriarcas hijos de Jacob es una obra considerada apocrifa de caracter etico-religioso que se atribuye a los doce hijos de Jacob, los patriarcas fundadores de las tribus de Israel.
This book offers a new perspective on a long-debated issue: the role of the occult in surrealism, in particular under the leadership of French writer Andre Breton.
This is the first book to offer a translation into English-as well as a critical study-of a Spanish treatise written around 1650 by Rabbi Saul Levi Morteira, whose most renowned congregant was Baruch Spinoza.
This book offers a new perspective on a long-debated issue: the role of the occult in surrealism, in particular under the leadership of French writer Andre Breton.
This is the first book to offer a translation into English-as well as a critical study-of a Spanish treatise written around 1650 by Rabbi Saul Levi Morteira, whose most renowned congregant was Baruch Spinoza.
Following Joshua's conquest to the time of the judges· Study the land in which the stories of Joshua, Judges, and Ruth took place· Learn how geographic and cultural factors can provide theological insights· Visualize the promised land through full-color maps and photosJoshua led Israel to conquer a real historic land, and the judges delivered Israel from real historic enemies.
After Ernst Jenni's three well known basic volumes dealing with the Hebrew prepositions Beth, Kaph and Lamed a further study of the third most common preposition in Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic was a scholarly desideratum.
