Judaism

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.

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.