Judaism

Based on scrutiny of sources from Nazi and Jihadist ideologues, David Patterson argues that Jihadist anti-Semitism stems from Nazi ideology.

A broad and ambitious overview of the significance of philosemitism in European and world history, from antiquity to the present.

Based on scrutiny of sources from Nazi and Jihadist ideologues, David Patterson argues that Jihadist anti-Semitism stems from Nazi ideology.

The essays in this volume highlight the multiple perspectives on Paradise from Second Temple Judaism and Christian origins to Augustine and rabbinic literature.

Reading Genesis presents a panoramic view of the most vital ways that Genesis is approached in modern scholarship.

This innovative study sees the relationship between Athens and Jerusalem through the lens of the Platonic dialogues and the Talmud.

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, the life and thought of a forceful figure in Israel’s religious and political life Rav Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935) was one of the most influential—and controversial—rabbis of the twentieth century.

Langton explores a wide variety of Jewish attitudes towards the Apostle Paul in the context of modern Jewish thought.

Methods for Exodus introduces readers to six distinct methodologies that aid in the interpretation of the book of Exodus.

The controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual lifeScion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (19231987) was an intellectual impresario whose inner restlessness led him from prewar Vienna to Zurich, Israel, and Cold War Berlin.

This book studies the ongoing encounter between Judaism and Christianity from the Jewish context of the New Testament to modern days.

A reappraisal of the identity and ethnicity of the Ituraeans, a little-known people of first century BCE Syria/Palestine.

Mara Benjamin argues that Rosenzweig''s reinvention of scripture illuminates the complex interactions between modern readers and ancient sacred texts.

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Examines new methodologies used in the study of these tablets.

Langton explores a wide variety of Jewish attitudes towards the Apostle Paul in the context of modern Jewish thought.

Methods for Exodus introduces readers to six distinct methodologies that aid in the interpretation of the book of Exodus.

Sommer utilizes a recovered ancient perception of divinity as having more than one body, fluid and unbounded selves.

This book studies the ongoing encounter between Judaism and Christianity from the Jewish context of the New Testament to modern days.

A reappraisal of the identity and ethnicity of the Ituraeans, a little-known people of first century BCE Syria/Palestine.

Sommer utilizes a recovered ancient perception of divinity as having more than one body, fluid and unbounded selves.

This book argues that the parables function to help create, intensify, and justify judgments and hostile actions against their audiences.

Placing Holocaust drama in its historical and cultural contexts, this book provides thorough analyses of over thirty seminal Holocaust plays.

Pollock argues that Rosenzweig''s The Star of Redemption is devoted to the philosophical task of grasping ''the All'' - the whole of what is - as a system.

Mara Benjamin argues that Rosenzweig''s reinvention of scripture illuminates the complex interactions between modern readers and ancient sacred texts.

This book examines an important collection of texts in the book of Jeremiah.

This collection of essays examines the politicization and the politics of the Jewish people in the Russian empire during the late tsarist period.

This book examines the problem of divine transgenerational punishment and the writers who confronted it.

This book examines the centrality of economics in European attitudes toward Jews from 1638–1848.

This book explores the Virgin Mary''s role in monotheism, as shaped by gender and sacrifice.

This volume presents translations of seven prominent medieval Jewish rationalists covering topics both theological and philosophical.

Looks closely at the debates surrounding Maimonides'' discussion of creation.

An examination of Jewish martyrdom in the context of Christianity revealing their martyrological interaction.

This book considers the early history of Jewish-Christian relations focussing on the fallen angels.

The story of how Moses, the rabbis, and other Jewish thinkers came to be understood as medical authorities.

A clear, straightforward account of the development of ancient Judaism in both the Judean homeland and the Diaspora.

This book uses rhetorical analysis to expose the motives behind the writing of this central book of the Torah/Pentateuch.

This book examines early Confucianism as a form of virtue ethics and Mohism as a version of consequentialism.

This 2007 book is an introductory history of racial slavery in the Americas.

Selection of translated texts focusing primarily on political institutions and political activity in ancient Greece.

The rending of the veil in Matthew 27:51a is explained in this 2001 text, with reference to ancient Jewish texts.

A comprehensive synthesis of medieval Jewish history between AD 1000 and 1500.

An exploration of the Hebrew Bible and its impact on current political debates.

Dates the writing of biblical literature to the late-Iron Age, challenging previous theories of literacy.

This book asks whether the collective identity asserted by the Jews in antiquity fits contemporary definitions of nationalism.

An historical and contemporary overview of the state of Jews and Judaism in the US.

An introduction to Jewish philosophical thought during the Middle Ages.

In this 2006 book, Leora Batnitzky brings together two seemingly incongruous contemporaries, demonstrating that their projects had many parallels.

This book maps the patterns of unity and diversity within the religious landscape of Late Antiquity.

This 2004 book situates the Lukan exorcism stories within the cultural contexts of both Judaism and popular belief.