Judaism

Making Men identifies and elaborates on a theme in the Hebrew Bible that has largely gone unnoticed by scholars-the transition of a male adolescent from boyhood to manhood.

Winner of the AAR's 2016 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Textual StudiesHow Repentance Became Biblical tells the story of repentance as a concept.

This is the study of an anonymous ancient work, usually called Joseph and Aseneth, which narrates the transformation of the daughter of an Egyptian priest into an acceptable spouse for the biblical Joseph, whose marriage to Aseneth is given brief notice in Genesis.

Finalist for the American Jewish Studies cateogry of the 2016 National Jewish Book AwardsEarly in the 1800s, American Jews consciously excluded rabbinic forces from playing a role in their community's development.

Perhaps no declaration incites more theological and moral outrage than a human's claim to be divine.

Oft-referenced and frequently set to music, Psalm 137 - which begins "e;By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion"e; - has become something of a cultural touchstone for music and Christianity across the Atlantic world.

Oft-referenced and frequently set to music, Psalm 137 - which begins "e;By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion"e; - has become something of a cultural touchstone for music and Christianity across the Atlantic world.

The Burden of Silence is the first monograph on Sabbateanism, an early modern Ottoman-Jewish messianic movement, tracing it from its beginnings during the seventeenth century up to the present day.

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

On Biblical Poetry takes a fresh look at the nature of biblical Hebrew poetry beyond its currently best-known feature, parallelism.

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History is littered with evidence of humanity's fascination with drugs and the pursuit of altered states.

History is littered with evidence of humanity's fascination with drugs and the pursuit of altered states.

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

Joyce Dalsheim's ethnographic study takes a ground-breaking approach to one of the most contentious issues in the Middle East: the Israeli settlement project.

The recent renewal of the faith-reason debate has focused attention on earlier episodes in its history.

The emergence of formative Judaism has traditionally been examined in light of a theological preoccupation with the two competing religious movements, 'Christianity' and 'Judaism' in the first centuries of the Common Era.

Volume XXIII of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry explores the role of sports in modern Jewish history.

The early sixteenth century saw a major crisis in Christian-Jewish relations: the attempt to confiscate and destroy every Jewish book in Germany.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Volume XXI of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry marks sixty years since the end of the Second World War and forty years since the Second Vatican Council's efforts to revamp Church relations with the Jewish people and the Jewish faith.

The newest volume of the annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry series features essays on the varied and often controversial ways Communism and Jewish history interacted during the 20th century.

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

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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Bringing together contributions from established scholars as well as promising younger academics, the seventeenth volume of this established series offers a broad-ranging view of why Judaism, a religion whose observance is more honored in the breach in most western Jewish communities, has garnered attention, authority, and controversy in the late twentieth century.

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

This book examines the ways in which two distinct biblical conceptions of impurity-"e;ritual"e; and "e;moral"e;-were interpreted in the Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, rabbinic literature, and the New Testament.

One of the most important and complex characters in the Bible, King David has been the subject of innumerable portraits, both artistic and literary.

The anthology is a ubiquitous presence in Jewish literature--arguably its oldest literary genre, going back to the Bible itself, and including nearly all the canonical texts of Judaism: the Mishnah, the Talmud, classical midrash, and the prayerbook.

Joseph Dan is one of the world's leading authorities on Jewish mysticism.

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

Between 1391 and the end of the 15th century, numerous Spanish Jews converted to Christianity, most of them under duress.

"e;Judaism, or that which has united the successive generations of Jews into one people, is not only a religion; it is a dynamic religious civilization.

When do you say mazal tov?

Dozens of books, articles, television shows, and films relating "e;near-death"e; experiences have appeared in the past decade.

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

This revisionist reading of early anti-Judaism offers a richer and more varied picture of the Jews and Christians of antiquity.

In October of 2014, 12-year-old Sasha Lutt read from a tiny Torah scroll as a part of her bat mitzvah in the Women's section of the plaza at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site.