Judaism

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.

An authoritative and detailed overview of early modern Jewish history, with chapters written by leading international experts.

What did ancient Jews, Christians, Greeks, and Romans think about how and why Jews ate the way they did?

This volume considers the political implications of Judaism, the relationships of leftists and Jews, contemporary anti-Zionism, and the importance of gender.

The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law provides a conceptual and historical account of the Jewish understanding of law.

What did ancient Jews, Christians, Greeks, and Romans think about how and why Jews ate the way they did?

This volume considers the political implications of Judaism, the relationships of leftists and Jews, contemporary anti-Zionism, and the importance of gender.

The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law provides a conceptual and historical account of the Jewish understanding of law.

This book offers a new assessment of the Joseph story from the perspective of the biblical laws in Leviticus 1-10.

This book offers a new assessment of the Joseph story from the perspective of the biblical laws in Leviticus 1-10.

This book situates the book of Esther in the intellectual history of Ancient Judaism and provides a new understanding of its purpose.

Offers a new theory of property and distributive justice derived from Talmudic law, illustrated by a case study involving the sale of organs for transplant.

This book situates the book of Esther in the intellectual history of Ancient Judaism and provides a new understanding of its purpose.

Offers a new theory of property and distributive justice derived from Talmudic law, illustrated by a case study involving the sale of organs for transplant.

An accessible and wide-ranging overview of literature in multiple languages from the period of the Holocaust and its aftermath.

An accessible and wide-ranging overview of literature in multiple languages from the period of the Holocaust and its aftermath.

Discovers how the Bible was represented in cinema from the beginnings up until the end of the ''silent'' era.

Presents the discourse in Jewish law and rabbinic literature on bioethical issues, highlighting practical problems in their socio-historical contexts.

Discovers how the Bible was represented in cinema from the beginnings up until the end of the ''silent'' era.

Presents the discourse in Jewish law and rabbinic literature on bioethical issues, highlighting practical problems in their socio-historical contexts.

Sheds light on the complex Jewish debates about the nature of priesthood in the early centuries of the Common Era.

Comprehensive discussion of how languages and translations were perceived and practised in the multilingual Jewish societies of Late Antiquity.

This book examines literary analogies in Christian and Jewish sources, culminating in an in-depth analysis of connections between Christian monastic texts and Babylonian Talmudic traditions.

Sheds light on the complex Jewish debates about the nature of priesthood in the early centuries of the Common Era.

Comprehensive discussion of how languages and translations were perceived and practised in the multilingual Jewish societies of Late Antiquity.

This book examines literary analogies in Christian and Jewish sources, culminating in an in-depth analysis of connections between Christian monastic texts and Babylonian Talmudic traditions.

This book explores the power of sight for ancient rabbis across the realms of divinity, sexuality, idolatry and rabbinic subjectivity.

To date, scholars have skilfully discussed aspects of Polqar's thought, and yet none of the existing studies offers a comprehensive examination that covers Polqar's thought in its entirety.

This book explores the power of sight for ancient rabbis across the realms of divinity, sexuality, idolatry and rabbinic subjectivity.

This book proposes a new means of identifying how Greek and Syrian identities were expressed in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East.

This book examines why Paul waits until the end of his letter to the Corinthians before mentioning the important theme of resurrection.

This book examines why Paul waits until the end of his letter to the Corinthians before mentioning the important theme of resurrection.

How should we interpret the Bible in light of the latest biblical research and archaeology?

This book proposes a new means of identifying how Greek and Syrian identities were expressed in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East.