Judaism

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.

Ernie Hollands, a career criminal, said Christ appeared to him in his cell in Millhaven Penitentiary.

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

Sufism, the name given to Islamic mysticism, has been the subject of many studies, but the orders through which the organizational aspect of the Sufi spirit was expressed has been neglected.

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.

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, thousands of American Jews were drawn to the teachings of Christian Science.

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.

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.