Judaism

The first book-length treatment of the history and political thought of Israel''s Declaration of Independence and its drafting process.

This book tells the fascinating, millennia-long story of peoples around the world who have claimed an Israelite identity and history.

This book tells the fascinating, millennia-long story of peoples around the world who have claimed an Israelite identity and history.

*; Examines in depth Enoch's full story of the Watchers, the fallen angels who came to Earth and shared corrupting forbidden knowledge*; Explores how Enoch was a vital component of Second Temple messianic Judaism, speculative Jewish mysticism, the Kabbalah, and Gnostic mythology*; Investigates the entire history of the Book of Enoch and its important esoteric offshoots, including the later 2 Enoch (the Slavonic ';Book of the Secrets of Enoch') and the so-called Hebrew ';Book of Enoch' (3 Enoch)Said to have been written by the prophet Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah, the Book of Enoch disappeared for many centuries, except for one place: the Bible of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, which held the book as canonical.

Challenges a foundational narrative of Jewish history under early Islam—that Jews went from farmers to merchants—presenting an alternative.

Challenges a foundational narrative of Jewish history under early Islam—that Jews went from farmers to merchants—presenting an alternative.

Jews arrived in the Republic of Rome some time in the second or first century B.

Codes of Jewish law may look similar, but they represent very different ways of thinking about the law.

Codes of Jewish law may look similar, but they represent very different ways of thinking about the law.

A novel account of pollution in the Hebrew Bible, from its embodied origins, to its metaphorical expression in moral discourse.

A novel account of pollution in the Hebrew Bible, from its embodied origins, to its metaphorical expression in moral discourse.

Zionism combined dialogues with Jewish, Christian, and secular messianisms to create a politics based in redemptive visions of its own.

Zionism combined dialogues with Jewish, Christian, and secular messianisms to create a politics based in redemptive visions of its own.

A comprehensive presentation of the various aspects of Jewish life throughout the medieval Islamic world.

A comprehensive presentation of the various aspects of Jewish life throughout the medieval Islamic world.

Psychoanalytic and Cultural Aspects of Trauma and the Holocaust presents interdisciplinary postmemorial endeavors of second-, third- and fourth-generation Holocaust survivors living in Israel and in the Jewish diaspora.

Psychoanalytic and Cultural Aspects of Trauma and the Holocaust presents interdisciplinary postmemorial endeavors of second-, third- and fourth-generation Holocaust survivors living in Israel and in the Jewish diaspora.

A Social History of Christian Origins explores how the theme of the Jewish rejection of Jesus - embedded in Paul's letters and the New Testament Gospels - represents the ethnic, social, cultural, and theological conflicts that facilitated the construction of Christian identity.

A Social History of Christian Origins explores how the theme of the Jewish rejection of Jesus - embedded in Paul's letters and the New Testament Gospels - represents the ethnic, social, cultural, and theological conflicts that facilitated the construction of Christian identity.

This volume examines Apuleius' comic donkey novel, The Golden Ass, within the context of the popular beliefs and Jewish and Christian writings that were part of the intellectual culture of his own day in 2nd century C.

This volume examines Apuleius' comic donkey novel, The Golden Ass, within the context of the popular beliefs and Jewish and Christian writings that were part of the intellectual culture of his own day in 2nd century C.

In the belief that all the great religions have similarities that confirm and differences that enrich peoples' spiritual outlook on the world, the editors inaugurated a series which they hoped would bring out the essential tenets of religion in what they perceived to be an age of doubt.

First published in 1947 The Essentials of Liberal Judaism explores the fundamental ideas of liberal Judaism.

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

First published in 1947 The Essentials of Liberal Judaism explores the fundamental ideas of liberal Judaism.

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

Religious encounters with mystery can be fascinating, but also terrifying.

Religious encounters with mystery can be fascinating, but also terrifying.

On Freud's "e;Moses and Monotheism"e; discusses key themes in Sigmund Freud's final book, Moses and Monotheism, written between 1934 and 1939.

On Freud's "e;Moses and Monotheism"e; discusses key themes in Sigmund Freud's final book, Moses and Monotheism, written between 1934 and 1939.

Early Israel offers the most sweeping reinterpretation of the Pentateuch since the nineteenth-century Documentary Hypothesis.

Early Israel offers the most sweeping reinterpretation of the Pentateuch since the nineteenth-century Documentary Hypothesis.

This book uses the Jewish ritual of circumcision to consider how violent acts are embedded within entrenched moral discourses and offers a new perspective for thinking about violence.

This book uses the Jewish ritual of circumcision to consider how violent acts are embedded within entrenched moral discourses and offers a new perspective for thinking about violence.

Religion and Genocide: Changing the Conversation is a cutting-edge introduction to the complex and controversial relationship between religion and genocide.

Religion and Genocide: Changing the Conversation is a cutting-edge introduction to the complex and controversial relationship between religion and genocide.

This volume presents a collection of studies by international experts on various aspects of ancient Israel's society, economy, religion, language, culture, and history, synthesizing archaeological remains and integrating them with discussions of ancient Near Eastern and biblical texts.

This volume presents a collection of studies by international experts on various aspects of ancient Israel's society, economy, religion, language, culture, and history, synthesizing archaeological remains and integrating them with discussions of ancient Near Eastern and biblical texts.

This book expands the current axiology of theism literature by assessing the axiological status of alternative conceptions of God and the divine.

This book expands the current axiology of theism literature by assessing the axiological status of alternative conceptions of God and the divine.

Sufism in Eighteenth-Century India focuses on one particular treasure from surviving Persian manuscripts in India, Nala-yi ?

Sufism in Eighteenth-Century India focuses on one particular treasure from surviving Persian manuscripts in India, Nala-yi ?

This volume examines Jewish literature produced from c.

This volume examines Jewish literature produced from c.

In the attempts to unify divided peoples on the basis of a shared past, both historical and mythical, this book illumines aspects of cultural nationalism common since the Middle Ages.

In the attempts to unify divided peoples on the basis of a shared past, both historical and mythical, this book illumines aspects of cultural nationalism common since the Middle Ages.

Across a range of disciplines, urban morphology has offered lenses through which we can read the city.

Across a range of disciplines, urban morphology has offered lenses through which we can read the city.