A groundbreaking reinterpretation of early Judaism, during the millennium before the study of the Bible took center stageEarly Judaism is often described as the religion of the book par excellencea movement built around the study of the Bible and steeped in a culture of sacred bookishness that evolved from an unrelenting focus on a canonical text.
A sweeping history of Judaism over more than three millenniaJudaism is one of the oldest religions in the world, and it has preserved its distinctive identity despite the extraordinarily diverse forms and beliefs it has embodied over the course of more than three millennia.
»Über den Nahen Osten und den dortigen Dauerkonflikt kursieren Schlagwörter und Klischees, die zwar einiges über die Weltsicht derjenigen, die sie formulieren, aussagen, aber wenig über die dortigen Verhältnisse.
Das Buch erforscht die Beziehungsnetzwerke, die die Habima, eine in Moskau gegründete zionistische Theatergruppe, mit der kulturellen und wirtschaftlichen deutschjüdischen Elite in Berlin entwickelte.
Verzweifelt über israelische Menschenrechtsverletzungen, verblüfft über das Vogel-Strauß-Verhalten deutscher Politiker und aufgrund der jüdischen Tradition seiner Familie sucht der Autor die Ursachen der heutigen Situation und spürt verlorengegangenen Alternativen nach: Im Judentum des Zarenreichs, wo Religiosität, Sozialismus und Nationalismus Wurzeln schlugen, im Zusammentreffen dieser Strömungen mit dem britischen Empire, der Furcht Europas vor dem "jüdischen Bolschewismus" und den Nazi-Verbrechen.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;Collected Works of Algernon Blackwood (Unabridged)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Peter von der Osten-Sacken, renommierter Interpret des Neuen Testaments und Vordenker des christlich-jüdischen Dialogs, übersandte dem Verlag kurz vor seinem Tod im Juni 2022 diese Zusammenstellung "kleiner" Texte aus 60 Jahren.
Bis heute verblüfft uns die Bibel mit ihrer Fülle von differenziert gezeichneten Frauenfiguren, ihren Geschichten, Beziehungen, Wirkungen, ihrer Rolle in Familie, Ehe, Gemeinde und in der großen Politik, ihrem Einfluss auf Männer und Kinder, ihren Triumphen und ihren Tragödien.
Leo Schaya (1916-1986) was a brilliant author and editor whose only book to appear in English was the much-acclaimed The Universal Meaning of the Kabbalah, which is often cited in books on Jewish mysticism.
A leading expert provides an engaging firsthand portrait of American Judaism todayAmerican Judaism has been buffeted by massive social upheavals in recent decades.
An intimate and moving portrait of daily life in New York's oldest institution of traditional rabbinic learningNew York City's Lower East Side has witnessed a severe decline in its Jewish population in recent decades, yet every morning in the big room of the city's oldest yeshiva, students still gather to study the Talmud beneath the great arched windows facing out onto East Broadway.
Understanding the Bible as an account of the unfolding revelation of God to humankind through history, Roland Mushat Frye suggests that the many sub-plots, monologues, and reflections of the Bible compose a coherent story that continues through both the Old and New Testaments.
The enigmatic sixteenth-century Swiss physician and natural philosopher Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus, is known for the almost superhuman energy with which he produced his innumerable writings, for his remarkable achievements in the development of science, and for his reputation as a visionary (not to mention sorcerer) and alchemist.
Power in the Portrayal unveils a fresh and vital perspective on power relations in eleventh- and twelfth-century Muslim Spain as reflected in historical and literary texts of the period.
A comprehensive and accessible account of the life and thought of Judaism's most celebrated philosopherMaimonides was the greatest Jewish philosopher and legal scholar of the medieval period, a towering figure who has had a profound and lasting influence on Jewish law, philosophy, and religious consciousness.
In Jewish Questions, Matt Goldish introduces English readers to the history and culture of the Sephardic dispersion through an exploration of forty-three responsa--questions about Jewish law that Jews asked leading rabbis, and the rabbis' responses.
The first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern JudaismThis is the first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism.
El presente libro es el resultado de la selección de algunas de las mesas que conformaron el ciclo de debates Posjudaísmo, organizado por YOK, durante los años 2005 y 2006.
Si bien del testimonio de un protagonista no se puede pretender objetividad sino seriedad y buena fe (y en ese sentido nadie discute la veracidad de los hechos relatados por Alpersohn en su obra, cuya tercera y última parte aquí entregamos), existen aspectos de ella que piden una contextualización.
An essential introduction to Josephus's momentous war narrativeThe Jewish War is Josephus's superbly evocative account of the Jewish revolt against Rome, which was crushed in 70 CE with the siege of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple.
This unique book is an exploration of Christianity alongside Jewish guides who are well-studied in and sympathetic to Christianity, but who remain "e;near Christianity.
A compelling book that casts the Qur'anic encounter with Jews in an entirely new lightIn this panoramic and multifaceted book, Meir Bar-Asher examines how Jews and Judaism are depicted in the Qur'an and later Islamic literature, providing needed context to those passages critical of Jews that are most often invoked to divide Muslims and Jews or to promote Islamophobia.
Dieses eBook: "Septem Defensiones (Sieben Verteidigungsreden)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
With the publication of The Origins of the Kabbalah in 1950, one of the most important scholars of our century brought the obscure world of Jewish mysticism to a wider audience for the first time.
From the recipient of the National Jewish Book Award for Lifetime Achievement, a "e;hugely entertaining and irreverent"e; (Adam Gopnik, New Yorker) account of the art of translating the Hebrew Bible into EnglishIn this brief book, award-winning biblical translator and acclaimed literary critic Robert Alter offers a personal and passionate account of what he learned about the art of Bible translation over the two decades he spent completing his own English version of the Hebrew Bible.
The life and times of a treasured book read by generations of Jewish families at the seder tableEvery year at Passover, Jews around the world gather for the seder, a festive meal where family and friends come together to sing, pray, and enjoy traditional food while retelling the biblical story of the Exodus.
How the rise of Christianity profoundly influenced the development of Judaism in late antiquityIn late antiquity, as Christianity emerged from Judaism, it was not only the new religion that was being influenced by the old.
The first complete and annotated English translation of Maimon's influential and delightfully entertaining memoirSolomon Maimon's autobiography has delighted readers for more than two hundred years, from Goethe, Schiller, and George Eliot to Walter Benjamin and Hannah Arendt.
