This book explores how modern religious thought and religious Zionism have addressed the profound question of evil, with a particular focus on the Holocaust.
Winner of the 2015 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award Winner of the Frank Moore Cross Award for Best Book in Biblical Studies from ASOR Winner of the Biblical Archaeology Society 2017 Publication Award for Best Book Relating to the Hebrew Bible Eugene Ulrich presents in The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Developmental Composition of the Bible ( (also available as paperback) the comprehensive and synthesized picture he has gained as editor of many biblical scrolls.
This book explores how modern religious thought and religious Zionism have addressed the profound question of evil, with a particular focus on the Holocaust.
The nexus between monotheism and ethics, especially in the forms professed by the three Abrahamic faiths, is the theme that binds together the studies in this volume.
Ancient Bible Interpretation and its Legacies: Politics, Literature, and Heresy offers a sweeping exploration of the evolving role of Bible interpretation from ancient to modern times, revealing its profound impact on religious, political, literary, and secular culture.
A multi-award-winning journalist and former editor-in-chief of a major Australian newspaper searingly explores his Jewish identity at a time when a substantial - and growing - part of the left is opposed to the very existence of Israel as a Jewish state.
The twelfth-century Andalusian philosopher Averroes sought to understand the divine in a way independent of religious theology, by turning to the philosophical works of Aristotle and, to a lesser extent, Plato.
Paradisus Iudaeorum (el paraíso de los judíos) es una antología, resultado de varias décadas de trabajo intelectual orientado a dilucidar la cuestión judía desde todos los ángulos posibles, desde las teorías sobre el origen de los israelitas hasta los primeros pasos del cristianismo originado en Israel, con los mitos y leyendas que refieren a Yeshu D´Nazareth y las sectas.
Die vorliegende Studie verfolgt das Anliegen, die komplexen und schwierigen Fragen jüdischer Identität und Selbstbeschreibung in der deutsch-jüdischen Gegenwartsliteratur einer fundierten Analyse zu unterziehen.
Die vorliegende Studie verfolgt das Anliegen, die komplexen und schwierigen Fragen jüdischer Identität und Selbstbeschreibung in der deutsch-jüdischen Gegenwartsliteratur einer fundierten Analyse zu unterziehen.
Following Joshua's conquest to the time of the judges· Study the land in which the stories of Joshua, Judges, and Ruth took place· Learn how geographic and cultural factors can provide theological insights· Visualize the promised land through full-color maps and photosJoshua led Israel to conquer a real historic land, and the judges delivered Israel from real historic enemies.
Der Erfahrungsbericht des judisch-polnischen Gewerkschaftsanwalts Jerzy Gliksman aus dem Gulag der Jahre 1939-1941 stellt eines der bedeutendsten judischen Zeugnisse aus dem sowjetischen Lagersystem dar.
After Ernst Jenni's three well known basic volumes dealing with the Hebrew prepositions Beth, Kaph and Lamed a further study of the third most common preposition in Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic was a scholarly desideratum.
Der neueste Band von »Theologie für die Praxis« widmet sich einem – leider, muss man wohl sagen – äußerst aktuellen Thema, nämlich dem Verhältnis von Judentum und Christentum aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive.
To comprehend the underlying currents of the intra-Jewish conflict in Israel, which has been labeled differently throughout the years - First and Second Israel, center-periphery relations, Mizrahi-Ashkenazi relations, and in recent years again as First and Second Israel - one must thoroughly understand the nature of relationships between development towns and their neighboring kibbutzim.
Die Romane Ohnehin (2004) und Andernorts (2010) von Doron Rabinovici, Broken German (2016) von Tomer Gardi und Die Leinwand (2010) von Benjamin Stein werden in diesem Band entgegen gangigen Verortungen in der Forschung nicht als asthetischer Ausdruck postmoderner Theorie, sondern als Intervention in den Bereich theoretischer Auseinandersetzung gelesen.
