Judaism

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The legendary story of the ten lost tribes of Israel has resonated among both Jews and Christians down through the centuries: the compelling idea that some core group of humanity was 'lost' and exiled to a secret place, perhaps someday to return triumphant.

What is the difference between writing a novel about the Holocaust and fabricating a memoir?

President Franklin D.

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In this book, Lenn E.

The Jerusalem kabbalists of the Beit El Yeshivah are the most influential school of kabbalah in modernity.

Volume XXII of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry explores the major and rapid changes experienced by a population known variously as "e;Sephardim,"e; "e;Oriental"e; Jews and "e;Mizrahim"e; over the last fifty years.

Most observers explain evangelical Christians' bedrock support for Israel as stemming from the apocalyptic belief that the Jews must return to the Holy Land as a precondition for the second coming of Christ.

In Leaves from the Garden of Eden, Howard Schwartz, a three-time winner of the National Jewish Book Award, has gathered together one hundred of the most astonishing and luminous stories from Jewish folk tradition.

The Sabbath is the original feast day, a day of joy and freedom from work, a holy day that allows us to reconnect with God, our fellows and nature.

Jewish copyright law is a rich body of jurisprudence that developed in parallel with modern copyright laws and the book privileges that preceded them.

In the traditional Jewish liturgy, a man thanks God daily for not having been made a gentile, a woman, or a slave.

A myth exists that Jews can embrace the cultural components of Judaism without appreciating the legal aspects of the Jewish tradition.

In Created Equal, Joshua Berman engages the text of the Hebrew Bible from a novel perspective, considering it as a document of social and political thought.

Hasidism, a kabbalah-inspired movement founded by Israel Ba'al Shem Tov (c1700-1760), transformed Jewish communities across Eastern and East Central Europe.

The Priestly Blessing found in Numbers 6:24-26 left a deep imprint upon Jewish and Christian religious practice and tradition.

The Ottoman-Jewish story has long been told as a romance between Jews and the empire.

For thousands of years the Jewish tradition has been a source of moral guidance, for Jews and non-Jews alike.

The concepts of purity and pollution are fundamental to the worldview reflected in the Hebrew Bible, yet the ways biblical texts apply these concepts to sexual relationships remain largely overlooked.

Sin, often defined as a violation of divine will, remains a crucial idea in contemporary moral and religious discourse.

First published in 2004, The Jewish Study Bible is a landmark, one-volume resource tailored especially for the needs of students of the Hebrew Bible.

The number of nonreligious people has increased dramatically over the past several decades, yet scholarship on the nonreligious is severely lacking.

The Bible is the most influential book in Western history.

The Bible is the most influential book in Western history.

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

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?

By the early twenty-first century, a phenomenon that once was inconceivable had become nearly commonplace in American society: the public spiritual teacher who neither belongs to, nor is authorized by a major religious tradition.

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.

The Ottoman-Jewish story has long been told as a romance between Jews and the empire.

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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.

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