Judaism

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

Lachen als spirituelle Erfahrung – ein Gedanke, der überraschend und zugleich tief berührend ist.

Examining the controversies that have accompanied the publication of novels representing the Holocaust, this compelling book explores such literature to analyze their violently mixed receptions and what this says about the ethics and practice of millennial Holocaust literature.

Dieser wichtige Beitrag zur Pentateuchforschung zeigt paradigmatisch, wie aus Gen 14 die politisch-geographischen und aus Gen 15 die verheißungstheologischen Konzepte in Gen 17 und der Endkompositionsschicht aufgenommen und spezifisch umgeprägt werden.

How ancient thinkers grappled with competing conceptions of divine lawIn the thousand years before the rise of Islam, two radically diverse conceptions of what it means to say that a law is divine confronted one another with a force that reverberates to the present.

An insightful exploration into Christianity today-written especially for Jews.

Was Esther uniquean anomaly in patriarchal society?

First published in 1953 Jewish Ethics presents a systematic account of ethics in Judaism.

In the aftermath of the conquest of the Holy Land by the Romans and their destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE, Jews were faced with a world in existential chaos-both they and their God were rendered homeless.

Invoking a concept as simple as it is brilliant, F.

A new theory of the Talmud''s formation based on comparison with late antique intellectual and material standards of book production.

This commentary illumines Jer 26-52 through historical, literary, feminist, and postcolonial analysis.

As they were entering Egypt, Abram glimpsed Sarai's reflection in the Nile River.

This book-length meditation on the Hebrew alphabet offers profound insights into many important ideas found in Jewish thought.

A new commentary for today's world, The Story of God Bible Commentary explains and illuminates each passage of Scripture in light of the Bible's grand story.

Does death end life, or is it the passage from one stage of life to another?

Der Band setzt dort an, wo das »Zeitalter der Emanzipation« endet und macht es sich zur Aufgabe, die zeitübergreifende, ungelöste Spannung aller emanzipativen Hoffnungen für die Jahre im ersten Drittel des 20.

How the rabbis of the Talmud transformed everything into a legal question-and Jewish law into a way of thinking and talking about everythingThough typically translated as "e;Jewish law,"e; the term halakhah is not an easy match for what is usually thought of as law.

Samuel Lebens takes the three principles of Jewish faith, as proposed by Rabbi Joseph Albo (1380-1444), in order to scrutinize and refine them with the toolkit of contemporary analytic philosophy.

Exalting Jesus inJonah, Micah, Nahum, and Habakkukis part of the Christ-Centered Exposition Commentary series.

Both traditions recognize and draw theological and historical lessons from some of the same narrative sources, but this is the first comparative resource to provide interdisciplinary coverage of the history and textual sources associated with prophets and prophecy.

The history of Algerian Jews has thus far been viewed from the perspective of communities on the northern coast, who became, to some extent, beneficiaries of colonialism.

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are considered kindred religions-holding ancestral heritages and monotheistic belief in common-but there are definitive distinctions between these "e;Abrahamic"e; peoples.

In dieser Studie wird der Zionismus nicht primär als politische Bewegung betrachtet, sondern als eine 'Kulturpoetik' verstanden und analytisch fruchtbar gemacht.

The power of prayer for spiritual renewal and personal transformation is at the core of all religious traditions.

In Israel, where the Orthodox rabbinate wields historically sanctioned influence over the legal definitions of marriage and parenthood, same-sex parenthood raises important questions such as what constitutes belonging to the national collective, who has the authority to define the norms of reproduction, and where the boundaries of Orthodox Judaism begin and end.

A Study in Creative History (1932) aims to present the main movements of thought as they emerge clearly into history.

British state-supported Holocaust remembrance has dramatically grown in prominence since the 1990s.

In Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern, Jalal ad-Din Rumi, Moses de Leon, and Meister Eckhart-three of the greatest mystics of all time-meet in Venice for an imaginary night-long conversation that will inspire everyday individuals of the twenty-first century to find their own spirituality and realize that everyone can be a mystic.

Wake up your Jewish spiritual life and restore your soul.

Piety and Rebellion examines the span of the Hasidic textual tradition from its earliest phases to the 20th century.

Barricade Books re-introduces Up, Up, and Oy Vey to the book publishing world.

In the Book of Judges, why, if we view Samson as a heroic bermensch, do we read his story one way, yet if we read him as a buffoonish and violent oaf, we read the story another way?

Judaism is a monotheistic religion with a history of over 3,500 years.

Where was God when six million died?