Judaism

How the rabbis of late antiquity used time to define the boundaries of Jewish identityThe rabbinic corpus begins with a question';when?

From Hlne Jawhara Pier, Gourmand World Cookbook Award-winning author ofSephardi: Cooking the History, comes a collection of 125 meticulously crafted recipes showcasing the enduring flavors that define Sephardic culinary heritage.

This book analyzes the exceptional normative impact of R.

"e;Today we are awash in computerized Bible games, pastoral care software, and church management systems with members' personal information and giving records,"e; observe authors Spiegel, Armstrong, and Bill, but "e;too often we blindly accept and use technology without asking the big questions.

Ambra Suriano analyses the narrator's techniques, exploring the influence of the readers' understanding and playing with their interpretative freedom in recounting particular episodes in the Book of Genesis.

New York Times bestselling author and host of the podcast Nurture vs Nurture Dr.

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.

When the rabbis composed the Mishnah in the late second or early third century C.

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.

The Holocaust and Representations of Jews examines how prominent national exhibitions in Europe represent the Jewish minority and its cultural and religious self-understandings, historically and today, in particular in the context of the Holocaust.

Readers of this book will emerge with a new awareness of what we as Jews are doing when we pray, why we are doing it, how we are supposed to be affected by prayer, how the prayers came to be as they are today, and how they differ among the major movements of American Judaism.

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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.

A fascinating exploration of the many faces of God and what they reveal about our own humanity He was a whole pantheon in Himself.

Examines Israeli identity by exploring its historical narratives, such as crusader and Canaanite challenges, and proposes a new meta-narrative - Mediterraneanism.

A marvel of conciseness, John J.

Exploring five key texts from the emerging canon of second generation writing, this exciting new study brings together theories of autobiography, trauma, and fantasy to understand the how traumatic family histories are represented.

This book examines Jewish writers and intellectuals in Austria, analyzing filmic and electronic media alongside more traditional publication formats over the last 25 years.

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Enrich Your Passover Seder with Renewed Meaning and Significance Whether you are planning to participate in, contribute to, or lead a Passover Seder, Leading the Passover Journey will help you relive the Jewish People's legacy of survival, hope, and redemption, and reconnect with the rich heritage celebrated in this special event.

A twentieth-anniversary reprint of the landmark book that launched the current explosion of social-scientific studies in the biblical field.

This intriguing volume takes readers on a fascinating journey through the Hebrew alphabet.

In this original and wide-ranging study, Gabriel Piterberg examines theideology and literature behind the colonization of Palestine, from the latenineteenth century to the present.

The Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions includes authoritative yet accessible studies on a wide variety of topics dealing comparatively with Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as with the interactions between the adherents of these religions throughout history.

Though considered one of the most important informants about Judaism in the first century CE, the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus's testimony is often overlooked or downplayed.

The book compares modern Jewish and Hindu thought through discussing selected writers with reference to common issues treated by them, issues which are still relevant today.

Who Were the Most Innovative Spiritual Leaders of the Past Century?

By 1791, the French Revolution had spread to Haiti, where slaves and free blacks alike had begun demanding civil rights guaranteed in the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man.

First English translation of Victor Hugo's writings on his experiments in spiritualism *; Reveals Hugo's conversations with renowned discarnate entities such as Shakespeare, Plato, Galileo, and Jesus *; Examines his contacts with aliens from the planets Mercury and Jupiter and the revelation that our entire universe is a quantum hologram *; Discusses Hugo's possible role as a grand master of the Priory of Sion During Victor Hugo's exile on the Isle of Jersey, where he and his family and friends escaped the reign of Napolon III, he conducted ';table-tapping' sances, transcribing hundreds of channeled conversations with entities from the beyond.

This study documents the history, traditions, tales, customs, and institutions of the Jadid al-Islam "e;New Muslims.

This book is a case study into the affective history of Holocaust drama offering a new perspective on the impact of The Diary of Anne Frank, the pivotal 1950s play that was a turning point in Holocaust consciousness.

With this heady exploration of time and space, rumors and silence, colors, tastes, and ideas, Robert Bonfil recreates the richness of Jewish life in Renaissance Italy.

The nationalist outlook of the Turkish state since the beginning of the Republican era in 1923 targeted uniform identity formation.

Naturally occurring DMT may produce prophecy-like states of consciousness and thus represent a bridge between biology and religious experience *; Reveals the striking similarities between the visions of the Hebrew prophets and the DMT state described by Strassman's research volunteers *; Explains how prophetic and psychedelic states may share biological mechanisms *; Presents a new top-down ';theoneurological' model of spiritual experience After completing his groundbreaking research chronicled in DMT: The Spirit Molecule, Rick Strassman was left with one fundamental question: What does it mean that DMT, a simple chemical naturally found in all of our bodies, instantaneously opens us to an interactive spirit world that feels more real than our own world?

Winner of the Jewish Book Council Nahum M.

Scholars of Gregory of Nyssa have long acknowledged the centrality of faith in his theory of divine union.

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This book argues that the destruction of Jerusalem is a key explanatory trope for early modern texts.

Judaism, Christianity and Islam: An Introduction to Monotheism shows how a shared monotheistic legacy frames and helps explain the commonalities and disagreements among Judaism, Christianity and Islam and their significant denominations in the world today.

From Tiberias With Love is a journey to rediscovering the magic and mystery, the intimacy and depth of a lost moment in the history of a remarkably relevant conscious community in the Galilee that still has much to teach us.

Designed with the beginning student in mind, this volume introduces the reader to the books that did not make it into the Bible or the Apocrypha but that remained popular among Jews and early Christians for centuries.

This is the sequel to the author's iconoclastic Toward a Grammar of Biblical Poetics (Oxford, 1992), in which Brichto argues for the aesthetic wholeness of the Hebrew Bible, and the consistency of Scripture's preachment on God, nature, and the human condition--in direct opposition to current source criticism, which maintains that inconsistencies within the text support an atomistic reading of multiple authors.

Jewish religious practice has been transformed by the Kabbalists of Safed in the sixteenth century.

An accessible and up-to-date historical narrative with detailed thematic discussion of crucial historical changes.

Deuteronomy 32:47 says the Pentateuch should not be 'an empty matter.

Reimagining the Bible collects a dozen essays by Howard Schwartz.

Although closely focused on the remarkable Hebrew First-Crusade narratives, Robert Chazan's new interpretation of these texts is anything but narrow, as his title, God, Humanity, and History, strongly suggests.

Recent discussion of biblical law sees it either as a response to socio-economic factors or as an intellectual tradition.

Juggling Identities is an extensive ethnography of the crypto-Jews who live deep within the Hispanic communities of the American Southwest.