Peter Enns is brilliant at taking the big topics, those Christian ideas that usually scare us or intimidate us or worry us, and then make those very places a meeting place with a God who is bigger and wilder and more wonderful and trustworthy than we ever could have guessed.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE 2024A WALL STREET JOURNAL BOOK OF THE YEARNATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER'Beautiful, sober and affecting - a testament to remembrance and friendship' - DALIA SOFER'A momentous historic retrieval and work of literary art' - PHILLIP LOPATENearly a century of life behind her, Stella Levi had never shared the full details of her past with anyone.
Preeminent biblical scholar and preacher Walter Brueggemann says the book of Jeremiah is not a sermon, but it does sound the cadences of the tradition of Deuteronomy that serve as sermons--that is, as expositions based on remembered and treasured tradition.
This collection is an introductory historical survey and selective cultural analysis of the development, coalescence, and eventual waning of a diasporic civilization-that of the Jews of the early modern period (ca.
A companion series to the acclaimed Word Biblical CommentaryFinding the great themes of the books of the Bible is essential to the study of God's Word and to the preaching and teaching of its truths.
A companion series to the acclaimed Word Biblical CommentaryFinding the great themes of the books of the Bible is essential to the study of God's Word and to the preaching and teaching of its truths.
Designing public policies to meet the needs of a diverse society is challenging, and the variety of necessary perspectives are often clouded by competing ideas about social responsibility, personal freedom, religious beliefs, and governmental intervention.
Dieses eBook: "Hiob: Roman eines einfachen Mannes" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
Many people have heard the term Talmud but have little or no idea what it is, what it contains, and why it was written; moreover, few have ever actually looked into one of its works, and even fewer would make any sense of it if they did.
In Kabbalah: A Very Short Introduction, Joseph Dan, one of the world's leading authorities on Jewish mysticism, offers a concise and highly accurate look at the history and character of the various systems developed by the adherents of the Kabbalah.
Offering a reading of the intermarriage debate and expulsion of the foreign women in Ezra 9-10, this book engages with the production and performance of masculinities in this biblical text, shifting the focus away from the 'foreign women' to the men who are the primary actors in this work.
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an unprecedented portrait of Moses's inner world and perplexing character, by a distinguished biblical scholar No figure looms larger in Jewish culture than Moses, and few have stories more enigmatic.
This book comprises interviews with the last veterans of the Jewish Fighting Organization (OB), accompanied by never previously published photographic postcards from ghettos in the Warsaw region, and a reconstruction of the only existing list of the (OB) soldiers.
This book explores figurative images of the womb and the simile of a woman in labor from the Hebrew Bible, problematizing previous interpretations that present these as disparate images and showing how their interconnectivity embodies relationship with YHWH.
Seit Anbeginn der Zeit hat die Menschheit vom Ende der Welt erzählt – von Sintfluten und Feuerregen, von kosmischen Katastrophen und selbstverschuldeten Apokalypsen.
Michael Stanislawski's provocative study of Max Nordau, Ephraim Moses Lilien, and Vladimir Jabotinsky reconceives the intersection of the European fin de siecle and early Zionism.
This book describes how medieval Jewish Bible scholars sought to answer the question of what is meant by the Angel's message from God to Abraham: 'Now I Know', as written in Genesis 22 verse 12.
This innovative exploration of Jewish experiences in France and the Francophone world through nuanced questions and representations offers an intertwining of perspectives that challenge geographical, chronological, and theoretical boundaries.
From the last decades of the nineteenth century through the late 1930s, the West Bohemian spa towns of Carlsbad, Franzensbad, and Marienbad were fashionable destinations for visitors wishing to "e;take a cure"e;to drink the waters, bathe in the mud, be treated by the latest X-ray, light, or gas therapies, or simply enjoy the respite afforded by elegant parks and comfortable lodgings.
Moving from cosmology to creativity to criminology, the Torah explores the breadth of human existence: ethics and ritual, narratives of Patriarchs and Matriarchs, history and a philosophy of history--all of these drive the first five books of Hebrew Scripture.
An analysis of the Jubilee's interpretation in the ancient texts of early Judaism and Christianity in conversation with Utopian StudiesIn Proclaim Liberty, Jonathan Kaplan examines the Jubilee in its original context, when it primarily referred to an ancient Israelite economic practice: that of announcing liberty for enslaved Israelites every fifty years and returning real estate to its original ancestral owners in that year.
An analysis of the Jubilee's interpretation in the ancient texts of early Judaism and Christianity in conversation with Utopian StudiesIn Proclaim Liberty, Jonathan Kaplan examines the Jubilee in its original context, when it primarily referred to an ancient Israelite economic practice: that of announcing liberty for enslaved Israelites every fifty years and returning real estate to its original ancestral owners in that year.
Black, Jewish, and Beautifulbrings together powerful perspectives and showcases the vastly divergent ways people come to inhabit a shared Blewish, or Black Jewish identity.
This groundbreaking work by Richard Smoley, author of fourteen books including Forbidden Faith: The Secret History of Gnosticism and Inner Christianity: A Guide to the Esoteric Tradition, presents the Jewish mystical teaching in a fresh new light.
An ethnography of nationalist orthodox Jewish Israelis adopting Buddhist-derived meditation to encounter God and promote redemptionBased on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, Settling the Mind, Settling the Land examines a striking puzzle at the heart of contemporary Israel: the adoption of Buddhist-derived meditation by nationalist, orthodox Jews.
Explore the contemporary significance of the Old Testament and hear the Word of God afreshThis volume offers insightful commentary on Ezra-Nehemiah and explores its significance for today's readers.
An ethnography of nationalist orthodox Jewish Israelis adopting Buddhist-derived meditation to encounter God and promote redemptionBased on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, Settling the Mind, Settling the Land examines a striking puzzle at the heart of contemporary Israel: the adoption of Buddhist-derived meditation by nationalist, orthodox Jews.
Acclaimed environmental writer and activist Bill McKibben turns to the biblical Book of Job to confront the deepest assumptions driving the modern environmental crisis.
An illustrated treasury of Jewish celebrations to introduce young readers to the foundation of the faith in an inclusive, informative, and accessible format.
The life and work of an American Jewish convert to Islam who became a leading voice of the global Islamic Revival, explored through the lens of emotion in transnational religious identityMaryam Jameelah (19342012)born Margaret Marcus in White Plains, New Yorkfollowed an unlikely journey, from comfortable suburban childhood to influential voice of the twentieth-century global Islamic Revival.
