Als der Papststuhl 1309 von Rom nach Avignon verlegt wurde, bedeutete dies das Ende einer erstaunlichen wirtschaftlichen Kooperation zwischen päpstlicher Kurie und jüdischen Händlern.
Isaak Alfasis Kodifikationswerk, das Sefer ha-Halakhot, wird als bedeutendes Werk innerhalb des jüdischen Rechts geschätzt, ist jedoch bisher kaum wissenschaftlich untersucht worden.
Who were the early ancestors of East European Ashkenazic Jews, how were they related to the biblical Israelites/Judeans, and when and from where did they arrive in Eastern Europe?
A comprehensive investigation of notions of "e;time"e; in deuterocanonical and cognate literature, from the ancient Jewish up to the early Christian eras, requires further scholarship.
A comprehensive investigation of notions of "e;time"e; in deuterocanonical and cognate literature, from the ancient Jewish up to the early Christian eras, requires further scholarship.
Darwin provoked Jewish as well as Christian thinkers so that many felt obliged to establish oppositional, alternative, synthetic, or complimentary models relating Jewish religion to his theory of natural selection.
This manual provides a detailed presentation of the various Romance languages as they appear in texts written by Jews, mostly using the Hebrew alphabet.
This volume contributes to the growing interest in understanding the phenomenon of prayer and praying in the Hebrew Bible, Early Judaism, and nascent Christianity.
The heroes of Beyond the Glory are not the famous rabbis, the heads of the yeshivas, or Hasidic righteous, but rather the "e;second circle"e; rabbis - the community rabbis in 19th century Eastern Europe, the backbone of the rabbinical world of the time,those who knew the world of their community members closely and were required to answer a wide range of questions, both daily and existential.
This exploration of the Judean priesthood's role in agricultural cultivation demonstrates that the institutional reach of Second Temple Judaism (516 BCE-70 CE) went far beyond the confines of its houses of worship, while exposing an unfamiliar aspect of sacred place-making in the ancient Jewish experience.
Frühe Handschriften bezeugen Ambrosius als den Verfasser der in fünf Bücher umgestalteten lateinischen Version der ‘Geschichte des Jüdischen Krieges gegen die Römer’, die Flavius Josephus in sieben Büchern griechisch vorgegebenen hatte.
This manual provides a detailed presentation of the various Romance languages as they appear in texts written by Jews, mostly using the Hebrew alphabet.
Dana Sawyer unpacks the philosophy-spirituality of Huxley, Watts, and Ram Dass (as well as our contemporaries, including Mirabai Starr and Richard Rohr) in ways readers will find intriguing, creating an original view of human nature, revealing why this mystical understanding of our world is called perennial.
Thinking in Translation posits the Hebrew Bible as the fulcrum of the thought of Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929), underpinning a unique synthesis between systematic thinking and biblical interpretation.
To date, scholars explored Bruce Nauman's oeuvre through various perspectives, concepts and premises, including linguistics, performance, power and knowledge, sound, the political and more.
Mit scharfer Beobachtungskraft und talentierter Erzählkunst verarbeitet Gronemann in „Hawdoloh und Zapfenstreich" seine an der Ostfront des Ersten Weltkrieges gemachten Erfahrungen.
Das Neue Testament, meistkommentierter Text der Welt, steckt voller Rechtsfälle und -begriffe, die wider Erwarten noch keine fachkundige Behandlung erfahren haben.
This exploration of the Judean priesthood's role in agricultural cultivation demonstrates that the institutional reach of Second Temple Judaism (516 BCE-70 CE) went far beyond the confines of its houses of worship, while exposing an unfamiliar aspect of sacred place-making in the ancient Jewish experience.
Weaves Jewish sacred texts, mysticism, human rights, and a modern voice of radical love, taking readers on a path of healing from brokenness to wholeness.
