Judaism

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Becoming a Mensch is a "e;user's guide"e; to becoming a better person, taking readers through a process of personal growth by means of modern-day vignettes that draw upon the Talmud's ancient wisdom.

In volume two of At the Cross, Richard Allen focuses on the sanctification that follows a believer's initial commitment to Christ.

The story of Jesus feeding the five thousand is found in all four Gospels, and is told in two of them twice.

How could the Apostle Paul maintain in his first letter to the Christians in Corinth that all their ancestors were baptized into Moses at the Red Sea / exodus event (10:2), and how could he tolerate some of them having themselves baptized again on behalf of the dead (15:29)?

This collection of essays and thoughts covers such areas as basic Christian thought, which includes traditional family morality and a great concern for alleviating poverty and promoting social justice, political thought comparing the need for a system which includes both socialist and capitalist elements, and the need for values in our society, which has come to emphasize money, power, and greed as philosophical goals and values, though they are not.

This book traces the journey of the Mofet Association, an educational coalition established by teachers who immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union.

The Babylonia Talmud is an immense collection of laws, practices, and customs of the Jewish people, edited in its present form in the fifth century.

The Invention of Monotheist Ethics, Volume II presents a comprehensive analysis of the Biblical Book of Samuel.

This two-volume Journey of a Rabbi consists of essays describing ventures undertaken, events experienced, and ideas articulated that reflect the life work of a rabbi and Jewish educator.

This is a book about a book: it is an in-depth yet reader friendly analysis of the Book of Judges, one of the most dramatic books of the Bible.

"e;Beneath the surface [of our society],"e; writes historian Robert Wistrich, are "e;ancient myths, dark hatreds, and irrational fantasies [that] continue to nourish antisemitism.

Anyone familiar with the Rastafari movement and its connection with the Bible is struck by the prevalence of messianic I-locution found in both.

Before the Arabo-Muslim conquest of 698, the Jews lived peacefully in North Africa with the other inhabitants of the region, except for a few brief periods of Roman and Byzantine rules.

The bible is indeed a world of the strange and mysterious when it comes to the variety of creatures that are presented in its texts.

In a culture firmly grounded in scientific thought, it has become common to think of "e;God"e; as the label we use for natural law, the creative, organizational forces in the universe, rather than as a great, omniscient Being.

A Physician Under the Nazis are the memoirs of the first forty years (1909-1948) of the life of Henry Glenwick.

The Invention of Monotheist Ethics, Volume I presents a comprehensive analysis of the Biblical Book of Samuel.

This collection of essays was inspired by the desire to create a suitable tribute to Dr.

The Talmud is a confusing piece of writing.

Sefer Yetzira is a sacred book of great antiquity and power, and one of Judaism's oldest texts after the Bible.

Like many Jewish Americans, Elizabeth Ehrlich was ambivalent about her background.

Children during the Holocaust, from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, tells the story of the Holocaust through the eyes, and fates, of its youngest victims.

The companion to Volume 2 of The New Church's Teaching Series, Roger Ferlo's Opening the Bible, Michael Johnston's Engaging the Word teaches us how to use the critical and practical tools for reading the Bible described by Ferlo to interpret the Hebrew and Christian scriptures: what did they mean for their original audience and what do they mean for us today?

One of the best-kept religious secrets has been the revolution that has been quietly taking place within Judaism over the last two decades, as it has sought to grapple with contemporary issues.

What does it mean to be Jewish?

Moral injury is a profound violation of a human being's core moral identity through experiences of violence or trauma.

Truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing.

What is the role of scripture in illuminating the lives of the faithful today?

Part of the Jewish Encounter series

In 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty–three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism.

From one of the most innovative and acclaimed biblical commentators at work today, here is a revolutionary analysis of the intersection between religion and psychoanalysis in the stories of the men and women of the Bible.

Take destiny into your own hands and transform your life through positive change and thought.

In Halakhic Positions of Rabbi Joseph B.

The Midrash: An Introduction sets forth the way in which Judaism reads the Hebrew Bible.

Religion and Security: The New Nexus in International Relations focuses on a groundbreaking theme.

In this unprecedented masterwork, The Scholar's Haggadah: Ashkenazic, Sephardic, and Oriental Versions, Heinrich Guggenheimer presents the first Haggadah to treat the texts of all Jewish groups on an equal footing and to use their divergences and concurrences as a key to the history of the text and an understanding of its development.

The Origins of Ethical Thought: A Comparative Study Between Hellenism and Hebraism is the first text to analyze both Greek and Hebrew ethical thought based on a comprehensive and ideological interpretation of the two systems on their own and in relation to one another.

Let My People Go: Insights to Passover and the Haggadah offers an analysis of ancient and modern perspectives on the themes of slavery and freedom.

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In this timely and highly readable volume, Old Testament scholar William Holladay introduces the reader to the several ways in which Isaiah speaks, from ancient Jewish readings of the text, to Handel's lyrical use of it in his oratorio, Messiah, to the Christian community who has heard it foretelling the life and death of Jesus Christ.

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Few religious traditions have generated such diversity and stirred imaginations as shamanism.

Religion and Security: The New Nexus in International Relations focuses on a groundbreaking theme.

In this unprecedented masterwork, The Scholar's Haggadah: Ashkenazic, Sephardic, and Oriental Versions, Heinrich Guggenheimer presents the first Haggadah to treat the texts of all Jewish groups on an equal footing and to use their divergences and concurrences as a key to the history of the text and an understanding of its development.

The Origins of Ethical Thought: A Comparative Study Between Hellenism and Hebraism is the first text to analyze both Greek and Hebrew ethical thought based on a comprehensive and ideological interpretation of the two systems on their own and in relation to one another.

In the Bible, there is a drama of defining who are truly God's people-and who are not.

Jews and Muslims in the Arab World highlights the effects of historical memory on the Arab-Israel conflict, demonstrating that both Jews and Arabs use stories of distant pasts to create their identities and shape their politics.

Why is the Jewish New Year designated on the Jewish calendar as the first day of the seventh month, and not of the first month?

When Christians Were Jews tells the story of identity rediscovered.