Judaism

A new look at Rashi''s innovative commentary that sheds unique light on medieval Jewish and Christian learning and Bible interpretation.

A collection of studies in bioethics and society that goes beyond conventional medical ethics and suggests political, socio-legal, and empirical analysis.

Essays explaining diverse methods and reading strategies, providing a dependable guide to understanding the Book of Genesis.

Essays explaining diverse methods and reading strategies, providing a dependable guide to understanding the Book of Genesis.

This book offers new perspectives on animals and animality from the vantage point of the rabbis of the Babylonian Talmud.

Apocalytic literature has addressed human concerns for over two millennia.

Time in the Babylonian Talmud explores how rabbinic jurists'' language, reasoning, and storytelling reveal their assumptions about what we call time.

Apocalytic literature has addressed human concerns for over two millennia.

An Early History of Compassion explores the role of the emotional imagination within the context of Roman imperialism.

Time stands at the heart of human experience.

This eighth volume offers an overview of modern Jewish history from political, social and cultural perspectives over the period 1815–2000.

This eighth volume offers an overview of modern Jewish history from political, social and cultural perspectives over the period 1815–2000.

An Early History of Compassion explores the role of the emotional imagination within the context of Roman imperialism.

Time stands at the heart of human experience.

This is the first book to present a systematic and synthetic introduction to Jewish law.

This is the first book to present a systematic and synthetic introduction to Jewish law.

This book rethinks the relations between reasoning and revelation and, therefore, the nature of philosophy and religion in archaic Greece.

Examines the history of Judaism during the second half of the Middle Ages.

Examines the history of Judaism during the second half of the Middle Ages.

Accommodates both the cosmopolitan narrative of the Jewish diaspora with traditional Jews and their culture.

How rabbinic expertise was socially constructed, performed, and defended in Roman PalestineAt the turn of the common era, the Jewish communities of Roman Palestine saw the organization of a small group of literate Jewish men who devoted their lives to the interpretation and teaching of their sacred ancestral texts.

A comprehensive review of the entire tradition of Jewish Theology from the Bible to the present from leading world scholars.

Accommodates both the cosmopolitan narrative of the Jewish diaspora with traditional Jews and their culture.

This book explores the history and halakhah of conversion in context of the visions, beliefs and prejudices that may have shaped them.

A comprehensive review of the entire tradition of Jewish Theology from the Bible to the present from leading world scholars.

This book explores how the Graeco-Roman world suffered from major power conflicts, imperial ambition, and ethnic, religious and racist strife.

This book explores how the Graeco-Roman world suffered from major power conflicts, imperial ambition, and ethnic, religious and racist strife.

The Book of Revelation and Early Jewish Textual Culture explores the relationship between the writing of Revelation and its early audience.

The Book of Revelation and Early Jewish Textual Culture explores the relationship between the writing of Revelation and its early audience.

Marshalling previously untapped Christian materials, Bar-Asher Siegal offers radically new insights into Talmudic stories about Scriptural debates with Christian heretics.

This book explores responses to The Merchant of Venice by Jewish writers, critics, theater artists, thinkers, religious leaders and institutions.

This book explores responses to The Merchant of Venice by Jewish writers, critics, theater artists, thinkers, religious leaders and institutions.

An authoritative and detailed overview of early modern Jewish history, with chapters written by leading international experts.

An authoritative and detailed overview of early modern Jewish history, with chapters written by leading international experts.

What did ancient Jews, Christians, Greeks, and Romans think about how and why Jews ate the way they did?

This volume considers the political implications of Judaism, the relationships of leftists and Jews, contemporary anti-Zionism, and the importance of gender.

The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law provides a conceptual and historical account of the Jewish understanding of law.

What did ancient Jews, Christians, Greeks, and Romans think about how and why Jews ate the way they did?

This volume considers the political implications of Judaism, the relationships of leftists and Jews, contemporary anti-Zionism, and the importance of gender.

The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law provides a conceptual and historical account of the Jewish understanding of law.

This book offers a new assessment of the Joseph story from the perspective of the biblical laws in Leviticus 1-10.

This book offers a new assessment of the Joseph story from the perspective of the biblical laws in Leviticus 1-10.

A study of the Trojan War as retold in carved images and texts at the dawn of the Roman Empire.

A study of the Trojan War as retold in carved images and texts at the dawn of the Roman Empire.

This book situates the book of Esther in the intellectual history of Ancient Judaism and provides a new understanding of its purpose.

A unique collaboration between archaeologists and a range of specialists in ritual and religion, looking at the role of religion in early human societies.

Examines the relationship between social networks and religious transmission to reappraise how new religious ideas spread in the Roman Empire.

Offers a new theory of property and distributive justice derived from Talmudic law, illustrated by a case study involving the sale of organs for transplant.

This book situates the book of Esther in the intellectual history of Ancient Judaism and provides a new understanding of its purpose.

A unique collaboration between archaeologists and a range of specialists in ritual and religion, looking at the role of religion in early human societies.