Judaism

For many centuries Jews have been renowned for the efforts they put into their children's welfare and education.

In the race to discover real solutions for the conflicts that plague contemporary society, it is essential that we look to precedent.

In the race to discover real solutions for the conflicts that plague contemporary society, it is essential that we look to precedent.

This book examines the origins of the evil creator idea chiefly in light of early Christian biblical interpretations.

How do people link the past to the present, marking continuity in the face of the fundamental discontinuities of history?

How do people link the past to the present, marking continuity in the face of the fundamental discontinuities of history?

For as long as historians have contemplated the Jewish past, they have engaged with the idea of diaspora.

For as long as historians have contemplated the Jewish past, they have engaged with the idea of diaspora.

"e;Never again!

"e;Never again!

By the end of the Second World War, Germany was in ruins and its Jewish population so gravely diminished that a rich cultural life seemed unthinkable.

Luke, the eponymous author of the gospel that bears his name as well as the book of Acts, wrote the largest portion of the New Testament.

Luke, the eponymous author of the gospel that bears his name as well as the book of Acts, wrote the largest portion of the New Testament.

An obsessive genealogist and descendent of one of the most prominent Jewish families since the American Revolution, Blanche Moses firmly believed her maternal ancestors were Sephardic grandees.

An obsessive genealogist and descendent of one of the most prominent Jewish families since the American Revolution, Blanche Moses firmly believed her maternal ancestors were Sephardic grandees.

Jewish culture places a great deal of emphasis on texts and their means of transmission.

Jewish culture places a great deal of emphasis on texts and their means of transmission.

Under the Soviet regime, millions of zeks (prisoners) were incarcerated in the forced labor camps, the Gulag.

Under the Soviet regime, millions of zeks (prisoners) were incarcerated in the forced labor camps, the Gulag.

Dozens of books, articles, television shows, and films relating "e;near-death"e; experiences have appeared in the past decade.

The first readable and accurate translation of twenty of the most authoritative Hindu documents pertaining to ascetic ideals and the ascetic way of life, this text opens to students a major source for the study of the Hindu ascetical institutions and of the historical changes they underwent during a period of a thousand years or more.

This revisionist reading of early anti-Judaism offers a richer and more varied picture of the Jews and Christians of antiquity.

It was not until the emergence of the ideologies of Zionism and Socialism at the end of the last century that the Jewish communities of the Diaspora were perceived by historians as having a genuine political life.

Separation of church and state has become a veritable creed in the American Jewish community.

Many studies written about the Jewish-Christian relationship are primarily historical overviews that focus on the Jewish background of Christianity, the separation of Christianity from Judaism, or the medieval disputations between the two faiths.

This is a literary and theological study of the Biblical Antiquities of Pseudo-Philo--a long, well-written reinterpretation of the Hebrew Bible written by a Palestinian Jew of the first century C.

Exploring the place of women in the socioeconomic system formulated in the Mishnah, a book of legal rules with a spiritual basis compiled by Jewish sages in second-century Palestine, this study reveals a fundamental ambiguity in the role of women.

This is a study of the ancient Jewish and Christian apocalypses involving ascent into heaven, which have received little scholarly attention in comparison to apocalypses concerned primarily with the end of the world.

Although primogeniture is commonly assumed to have prevailed throughout the world and firstborns are regarded as most likely to achieve success, many of the most prominent figures in biblical literature are younger offspring, including Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Samuel, David, and Solomon.

This cogently argued and richly illustrated book rejects the dichotomy between the God of Abraham and the God of the philosophers to argue that the two are one.

The first anthology of Jewish mythology in English, Tree of Souls reveals a mythical tradition as rich and as fascinating as any in the world.

The existence of suffering poses an obvious problem for the monotheistic religions.

Why do some citizens vote while others do not?

The present ecological crisis has created new interest in and criticism of biblical attitudes toward nature.

Between 1391 and the end of the 15th century, numerous Spanish Jews converted to Christianity, most of them under duress.

Traditionally, the Talmud was read as law, that is, as the authoritative source for Jewish practice and obligations.

This is the fourth volume in an influential series that presents a basic revaluation of the nature of mysticism.

Texts about war pervade the Hebrew Bible, raising challenging questions in religious and political ethics.

In this book, Hayes addresses the central concern in talmudic studies over the genesis of halakhic (legal) divergence between the Talmuds produced by the Palestinian rabbinic community (c.

Unnamed characters--such as Lot's wife, Jephthah's daughter, Pharaoh's baker, and the witch of Endor--are ubiquitous in the Hebrew Bible and appear in a wide variety of roles.

The destruction of the Egyptian army in the Book of Exodus is the primary story of salvation for Israel; God is the chief combatant in this story.

Reimagining the Bible collects a dozen essays by Howard Schwartz.

For hundreds of years, Poland served as the epicenter of Jewish life.

This is the study of an anonymous ancient work, usually called Joseph and Aseneth, which narrates the transformation of the daughter of an Egyptian priest into an acceptable spouse for the biblical Joseph, whose marriage to Aseneth is given brief notice in Genesis.

Ronald S.

Offering an original reading of the book of Job, one of the great literary classics of biblical literature, this book develops a new analogical method for understanding how biblical texts evolve in the process of transmission.

The Rabbis of the first five centuries of the Common Era loom large in the Jewish tradition.

In the second book of Samuel, the prophet Nathan tells King David that God will give to him and his descendants a great and everlasting kingdom.

One of the most important and complex characters in the Bible, King David has been the subject of innumerable portraits, both artistic and literary.

This book examines the ways in which two distinct biblical conceptions of impurity-"e;ritual"e; and "e;moral"e;-were interpreted in the Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, rabbinic literature, and the New Testament.