Judaism

Setting out from the observation made in the social sciences that maternal grief can at times be a motor of societal change, Ekaterina E.

This book challenges Voltaire's doctrine of toleration.

In The Devil and Philosophy, 34 philosophers explore questions about one of the most recognizable and influential characters (villains?

Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer represents a late development in "e;midrash"e;, or classical rabbinic interpretation, that has enlightened, intrigued and frustrated scholars of Jewish culture for the past two centuries.

Towards the end of the nineteenth century, there appeared in Central Europe a generation of Jewish intellectuals whose work was to transform modern culture.

This new cultural history of Jewish life and identity in the United States after World War II focuses on the process of upward mobility.

This book is a study of potential, perceived, and real conflicts and similarities between market economics and Jewish social justice.

This book contains fifteen original papers covering, a broad spectrum of topics in Jewish demography and identity, considering both Diaspora communities and the population of Israel.

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.

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

Hinduism has become a vital 'other' for Judaism over the past decades.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Geschichte des alten Israel, in eine Zeit, in der Glaube und Macht untrennbar miteinander verwoben waren.

A user-friendly siddur, by the same author as Tiku Shofar, for children ages 8 through 13, junior congregations and family services.

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 provides an in-depth exploration of the Jewish legal tradition, or halakhah, through the lens of modern legal philosophy.

This collection of original materials provides a sweeping view of medieval and early modern Jewish ritual and religious practice.

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

Love, Marriage, and Family in the JewishLaw and Tradition is everything you wanted to know about the Jewish view on marriage, sexuality, and child bearing in clear and concise language.

This monograph provides a fresh perspective on judgment according to works by challenging both the majority scholarly view and the new perspective advocated by E.

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Eve was not Adam's first wife.

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There has never been a more important time for a study of the social, economic and political origins of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, three important world religions which share a common root.

The philosophy and theology of David Novak, one of the most prominent and creative contemporary Jewish thinkers, grapples with Judaism, Christian theology, the tradition of natural law, and the Western philosophical canon.

This study traces the emergence of the concept of the body as a sanctuary from its biblical roots to its expressions in late Second Temple Judaism.

In The Future of the Jews, Stuart E.

This book is a consideration of major contemporary Black and Jewish understanding of God, examining how profound faith in a just God is sustained, and even strengthened, in the face of particularly horrific and long-standing evil and suffering in a community.

Pirkey Avoth_Chapters of the Sages_is one of the most well known texts in Jewish tradition.

This book deconstructs the boundaries between Jewish and Christian cultures while at the same time redefining what it means to be Jewish in relation to Christianity in the twentieth century.

A landmark collection of previously unpublished interviews with Reform rabbis concerning their roles in the civil rights movement.

In this book, Marta T.

An impressively researched and surprisingly accessible portrait of Jewish life in the mid-19th century.

Nach 1945, so die These dieses Buchs, sind gerade im amerikanischen Judentum fruchtbare Ansätze neuer Begegnungsformen zwischen Juden und Christen entstanden.

The evil of the holocaust demands a radical rethink of the traditional Christian understanding of Judaism.

The Papon Affair is the definitive English-language work on a trial that is now considered to be the most significant in late twentieth-century France.

This collected volume is based on the proceedings of a symposium held in 2018 at York University, Canada, which was held to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Israel.