Judaism

This book surveys the uses and function of prophecy, prophets, and oracles among Jews, Christians, and pagans in the first three centuries of the Roman Empire and explores how prophecy and prophetic texts functioned as a common language that enabled religious discourse to develop between these groups.

This volume examines Jewish literature produced from c.

There are no pre-packaged "e;magic bullet"e; solutions to life's anticipated and unforeseen hurdles.

During a time of global conflict, the theological question of whether Muslims, Jews, and Christians worship the same God carries political baggage.

The Sacred Now presents a contemporary Jewish spiritual philosophy that is founded in both the Jewish tradition and a commitment to contemporary culture.

This collection of essays covers a hundred-year history of Russian-language literature in Israel, including the pre-state period.

In this guide, Philip Peter Jenson provides an introduction to Leviticus, examining its structure, character, and content.

This book explores the question: How did the rabbis of the first two centuries CE approach bodies that are born with variant genitals-bodies that they could not identify as definitely male or female?

Die Projektgruppe Anthropologie des Alten Testaments der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft für Theologie hat sich in zwei internationalen Symposien in Wittenberg 2015 und 2016 mit den anthropologischen Grundthemen der Individualität und der Selbstreflexion befasst.

This book analyzes and describes the development and aspects of imagery techniques, a primary mode of mystical experience, in twentieth century Jewish mysticism.

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Until the 19th century, women were regularly excluded from graduate education.

Engages with the social cosmos of the Bible, in which all creatures, even ''inanimate'' ones, are alive and able to interact.

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.

In Hermeneutics of Holiness , Naomi Koltun-Fromm examines the ancient nexus of holiness and sexuality and explores its roots in the biblical texts as well as its manifestations throughout ancient and late-ancient Judaism and early Syriac Christianity.

Pairing the two concepts of diaspora and modernism, Allison Schachter formulates a novel approach to modernist studies and diasporic cultural production.

Contributors to Women and Judaism describe the many ways in which women are claiming a place in and changing the face of this ancient religion.

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You Are God's Partner Put on This Earth to Do God's Work "e;What on earth are you here for?

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.

In this volume, Niels Peter Lemche and Emanuel Pfoh present an anthology of seminal studies by Mario Liverani, a foremost scholar of the Ancient Near East.

Explores different traditions and usage of Esther in Judaism and Christianity, without neglecting the fundamental questions in scholarship.

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This book situates the book of Esther in the intellectual history of Ancient Judaism and provides a new understanding of its purpose.

It is an odd thing: a desire comes to me to write, and to write in my faltering mother tongue, which, as it happens, I have not spoken since I left the home of my parents.

One cannot think of Judaism without taking some stance relating to Israel's special status, its election.

Convinced that we no longer have immediate access to the sense of Jesus' words but must account for the history of its "e;effects,"e; David Clark seeks to trace the meaning of the Lord's Prayer through the early centuries of the faith.

Unmittelbar nach der Befreiung der nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager im Frühjahr 1945 entstanden Fotografien, die Berge von Leichen zeigen, Massengräber, halbverhungerte Überlebende auf Pritschen oder hinter Stacheldraht.

';Torah, as both book and process, is the taproot that penetrates to the heart of Jewish meaning, understanding, and expression.

This fascinating narrative illustrates and clarifies rabbinic views relating to more than 250 topics.

As religion and politics become ever more intertwined, relationships between religion and political parties are of increasing global political significance.

Discover the secret key to world revivalIsrael is re-awakening.

These studies break new ground in the exploration of early Christianity and Judaism towards the end of the Second Temple period.

Habsburg Sons describes Jewish participation in the Habsburg Army, 1788-1918, concentrating on World War I.

Idolatry, or its Hebrew equivalent Avodah Zarah is a fundamental feature of a Jewish view of other religions.

Emotions have increasingly attracted the attention of the sciences and academia.

"Jüdisches Leben in Tirol im Mittelalter" ist ein Auszug aus dem dreiteiligen Sammelwerk "Jüdisches Leben im historischen Tirol".

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This monograph discusses the Zohar, the most important book of the Kabbalah, as a late strata of the Midrashic literature.

Why are we here?

Prague's magnificent synagogues and Old Jewish Cemetery attract millions of visitors each year, and travelers who venture beyond the capital find physical evidence of once vibrant Jewish communities in towns and villages throughout today's Czech Republic.