Judaism

Leaving a religion is not merely a matter of losing or rejecting faith.

Continuing its distinguished tradition of focusing on central political, sociological, and cultural issues of Jewish life in the last century, this latest volume in the annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry series focuses on how Jewry has been studied in the social science disciplines.

As the Soviet Union stood on the brink of collapse, thousands of Bukharian Jews left their homes from across the predominantly Muslim cities of Central Asia, to reestablish their lives in the United States, Israel and Europe.

What is anti-Semitism?

What is anti-Semitism?

The fourth century of our common era began and ended with a miracle.

The fourth century of our common era began and ended with a miracle.

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Most studies of the history of interpretation of Song of Songs focus on its interpretation from late antiquity to modernity.

David Weiss Halivni's The Formation of the Babylonian Talmud, originally published in Hebrew and here translated by Jeffrey L.

Jewish thought is, in many ways, a paradox.

Are You Not a Man of God?

The disengagement of recent academic biblical study from church and synagogue has been widely noted, even by those within the discipline.

The disengagement of recent academic biblical study from church and synagogue has been widely noted, even by those within the discipline.

In the late eighteenth century, German Jews began entering the middle class with remarkable speed.

In the late eighteenth century, German Jews began entering the middle class with remarkable speed.

Building on the Oxford AQA GCSE Religious Studies Student Books, this Revision Guide offers a structured approach to revising for the new 9-1 exams.

Many people believe that the piety of the Pilgrims typified early American religion.

Judah Halevi (ca.

Liturgy, a complex interweaving of word, text, song, and behavior is a central fixture of religious life in the Jewish tradition.

The Babylonian Talmud was compiled in the third through sixth centuries CE, by rabbis living under Sasanian Persian rule in the area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

Accounts of the history of Zionism usually trace its origins to the late nineteenth century.

Mystics are path-breaking religious practitioners who claim to have experience the infinite, word-defying Mystery that is God.

Medieval Jewish philosophers have been studied extensively by modern scholars, but even though their philosophical thinking was often shaped by their interpretation of the Bible, relatively little attention has been paid to them as biblical interpreters.

In 1391 many of the Jews of Spain were forced to convert to Christianity, creating a new group whose members would be continually seeking a niche for themselves in society.

The death penalty in classical Judaism has been a highly politicized subject in modern scholarship.

The book of Genesis tells us that God made a covenant with Abraham, promising him a glorious posterity on the condition that he and all his male descendents must be circumcised.

Ancient Jewish sacrifice has long been misunderstood.

In his pathbreaking Israel in Egypt James K.

The classical Rabbinic tradition (legal, discursive, and exegetical) claims to be Oral Torah, transmitted by word of mouth in an unbroken chain deriving its authority ultimately from diving revelation to Moses at Sinai.

One day in 1599, in the Spanish village of Saria, seven-year-old Maria Angela Astorch fell ill and died after gorging herself on unripened almonds.

To this day Jewish thinkers struggle to articulate the appropriate response to the unprecedented catastrophe of the Holocaust.

This book asks: How might the earliest gospel have been heard by those first followers of Jesus who were religious Jews?

The Hebrew text of the Torah has never been finalized down to the last letter.

In ancient Jewish culture the ideas of purity and impurity defined the socio-cultural boundaries between Jews and Gentiles.

This volume brings together for the first time all of the ancient Jewish novels and fragments of novels.

The foundation for all study of biblical law is the assumption that the Covenant Code is the oldest legal code in the Hebrew Bible and that all other laws are revisions of that code.

King Josiah of Judah is a figure of extraordinary importance for the history of Israel.

Throughout history, the persecutions of the Jewish people have been central to their identity and to the cohesion of their religion and cultural heritage.

The Vatican II Council of 1965 signaled a new era in the relationship of the Jewish and Christian faiths.

When do you say mazal tov?

This critical study traces the development of the literary forms and conventions of the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, analyzing those forms as expressions of emergent rabbinic ideology.

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

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.