Judaism

Presents Soloveitchik''s philosophy as a conceptual response to Nietzsche''s critique of religion that brings Nietzsche''s life-affirming sensibility to halakhic Judaism.

Highlights the emergence of self-knowledge in rabbinic literature, showing how Babylonian rabbis relied on knowledge accessible only to the individual to determine the law.

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

Explores the origins and development of the Jewish belief in the ''Evil Inclination'' and the impact on early Christian thought.

Provides a detailed exegetically based study of Biblical theology, showing the canonical basis for later historical, systematic, and dogmatic theologies.

Uses the tools of modern and postmodern philosophy and biblical criticism to elucidate the epistemology of the Tanakh.

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

Analyses Solomon''s birth, rise, and temple-building within scriptural, archaeological and historical contexts.

Provides a detailed exegetically based study of Biblical theology, showing the canonical basis for later historical, systematic, and dogmatic theologies.

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

This is the first scholarly collection in English devoted to Maimonides'' Guide of the Perplexed.

Shows how biblical authors, like more recent architects of national identities, constructed identity in direct relation to memories of war.

Explores marriage, sexual relations, and family law in late antique Christianity using the writings of Ephrem the Syrian.

This is the first scholarly collection in English devoted to Maimonides'' Guide of the Perplexed.

Explores marriage, sexual relations, and family law in late antique Christianity using the writings of Ephrem the Syrian.

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

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.

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.

Compares New World slavery and the Holocaust.

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.

Compares New World slavery and the Holocaust.

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.