Judaism

Examines the rich and persistent Jewish engagement with one of the most important and controversial modern philosophers, Martin Heidegger.

The untold story of how American Jews reinvented modern humanitarianism during the Great War and rebuilt Jewish life in Jewish homelands.

Contributes to text-critical scholarship of the military campaigns of Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, against Babylon and Judah.

Contributes to text-critical scholarship of the military campaigns of Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, against Babylon and Judah.

The untold story of how American Jews reinvented modern humanitarianism during the Great War and rebuilt Jewish life in Jewish homelands.

Explores how literary form changes when Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape.

Explores future visions under a universalizing empire that many thought would never die.

Explores how literary form changes when Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape.

A study of the many different ways ancient Jewish scribes changed, or rewrote, the sacred and authoritative traditions they inherited.

Examines four key ways that writers of the Hebrew Bible conceptualize and critique acts of violence.

Examines four key ways that writers of the Hebrew Bible conceptualize and critique acts of violence.

Engages with the social cosmos of the Bible, in which all creatures, even ''inanimate'' ones, are alive and able to interact.

Engages with the social cosmos of the Bible, in which all creatures, even ''inanimate'' ones, are alive and able to interact.

Positions Revelation within an ancient Jewish context and demonstrates how the author used humor to resist Roman power.

A new explanation of the beginnings of Jewish angelology and demonology, drawing on non-canonical writings and Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls.

Explores the influence of the sea myth at the structural and conceptual foundations of the Hebrew Bible.

Positions Revelation within an ancient Jewish context and demonstrates how the author used humor to resist Roman power.

Explores the influence of the sea myth at the structural and conceptual foundations of the Hebrew Bible.

Explores the aesthetic dimensions of biblical poetry, offering close readings of poems across the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.

Investigates traditionalist struggles about Zionism and the emergence of national-religious Judaism and ultra-Orthodox in the early twentieth century.

Elucidates the Scriptural moral tradition by subjecting ethically challenging biblical texts to moral philosophical analysis.

John Locke, whose ideas helped give birth to the United States, predicated his political theory on the Hebrew Bible.

Explores the theological responses offered by The Books of Haggai and Zechariah to the people enduring struggles in post-exilic Yehud.

Situates a hotly contested section of Isaiah within its historical and cultural contexts, correcting misunderstandings of older scholarship.

This new account of the Holocaust in Greece elaborates on the involvement of Christian society in the persecution of Jews.

This new account of the Holocaust in Greece elaborates on the involvement of Christian society in the persecution of Jews.

Uses archaeological and textual evidence to clarify the nature of Galilean discontent and the advent of Jesus'' eschatological ministry.

Discusses state and religion relations in Israel by applying a general theory regarding the role of religion in liberal countries.

An essential guide to wisdom texts, and the major changes in the approach to different biblical and non-biblical wisdom books.

Examines how socioeconomic relations between Judaean elites and non-elites changed as Palestine became part of the Roman Empire.

Re-examines our relationship to the modern world by providing new perspectives on the influence of medieval, Jewish, and Christian theologies.

There is no more influential Jewish work than the Talmud.

Explores how religion and violence visited on Jewish bodies and lives created the first racial state in the history of the West.

Considers physical pain, social bereavement, the origin of evil, theodicy, justice, divine violence, and reward.

There is no more influential Jewish work than the Talmud.

Traces the theological story of the Old Testament Book of Kings and its ongoing relevance for contemporary audiences.

Traces the theological story of the Old Testament Book of Kings and its ongoing relevance for contemporary audiences.

Introduces basic and critical issues of Hebrew syntax for beginning and intermediate readers of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.

Investigates traditionalist struggles about Zionism and the emergence of national-religious Judaism and ultra-Orthodox in the early twentieth century.

Analyzes the efforts to forge a progressive and ''authentic'' Israeli law that would express Jewish identity.

Charts a new methodological course in Dead Sea Scrolls scholarship by employing memory theory to inform historical research.

Uses archaeological and textual evidence to clarify the nature of Galilean discontent and the advent of Jesus'' eschatological ministry.

An essential guide to wisdom texts, and the major changes in the approach to different biblical and non-biblical wisdom books.

Balances historical and contemporary concerns in an engaging and informative way, drawing connections between ancient and contemporary ethical problems.

Examines how socioeconomic relations between Judaean elites and non-elites changed as Palestine became part of the Roman Empire.

Explores the theological responses offered by The Books of Haggai and Zechariah to the people enduring struggles in post-exilic Yehud.

Charts a new methodological course in Dead Sea Scrolls scholarship by employing memory theory to inform historical research.

Introduces basic and critical issues of Hebrew syntax for beginning and intermediate readers of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.