Judaism

The few popular Bible stories about women are often presented in black and white-the women were good or bad, Ruth or Jezebel.

The state of Israel is often spoken of as a haven for the Jewish people, a place rooted in the story of a nation dispersed, wandering the earth in search of their homeland.

When thinking about psalms and prayers in the Second Temple period, the Masoretic Psalter and its reception is often given priority because of modern academic or theological interests.

A lot of us have tried to read the Bible.

Patriots without a Homeland dissects an important underexplored theme in Hungarian Jewry: Modern Orthodoxy.

In 1946 the first of the Dead Sea Scroll discoveries was made near the site of Qumran, at the northern end of the Dead Sea.

The book argues that religion is a system of significant meanings that have an impact on other systems and spheres of social life, including cultural memory.

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.

This volume introduces new perspectives on taxation policies in the Roman Empire, the Galilee, and Egypt, with unique insights into the economic effects of imperial pacification on local and regional microlevel economies in the Galilee both before and after the First Jewish Revolt against Rome.

Every Jewish institution,"e; writes Kerry Olitzky, "e;is undergoing significant change and is in danger of becoming irrelevant to the majority of North American Jews.

The idea for this book came to Larry Tye as he traveled overseas as a reporter for the Boston Globe.

In an effort to counter the confusion and isolation often experienced by a novice synagogue-goer, as well as by many who regularly attend synagogue, The Synagogue Survival Kit: A Guide to Understanding Jewish Religious Services offers introductions and instructions for all aspects of the synagogue experience.

This book presents the first three Christian centuries through the lens of what Foucault called "e;the care of the self.

The book of Isaiah places a distinctive emphasis on the miraculous.

Explore the many dimensions of the pilgrimage experience and change your orientation to the world.

Why does the Torah begin with the letter beit, the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet?

In medieval Ashkenaz piyyut commentary was a popular genre that consisted of 'open texts' that continued to be edited by almost each copyist.

Biblical theologian Terence E.

This book presents ground-breaking research into the 'Merker affair,' a series of events that took place in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the early 1950s, which saw Paul Merker, a member of the ruling party's 'Politburo,' become ensnared in the agent hysteria of the period.

Als Marina Weisband ihre Followerschaft bei Twitter fragte, was sie so am Judentum interessiere, wurde sie mit Fragen überschüttet.

The Books of Chronicles and Ben Sira 44-50 both rewrite previous biblical history in different ways.

This book comprehensively discusses the topic of Jews fleeing the Holocaust to China.

In recent years, there has been an upsurge of interest in religion and religious issues.

Fulfill the reality that the glory of God is the human fully alive.

In The Eternal Books Retold, Alex J.

This book explores the life and thought of one of the most important but least known figures in early Zionism, Nathan Birnbaum.

Being Jewish.

All twenty-two original articles in the current volume are based on lectures given at the conference "e;The Jews in Italy: Their Contribution to the Development and Diffusion of Jewish Heritage"e;, which was convened in September 2011, at the University of Bologna, Department of Cultural Heritage.

An exhaustive cross-referencing tool for interpreting Scripture with Scripture.

The book of Joshua, with its memorable images of the crossing of the River Jordan and the miraculous conquest of the city of Jericho, plays an important part in the Old Testament's narrative and theology of God's promise and gift of the land of Canaan to Israel.

A re-examination of Jewish scripture and teachings about disabilitiesFew people are untouched by the issue of disability, whether personally or through a friend or relative.

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.

Sicker presents a personal attempt to come to grips with the awesome question, Where was God at Auschwitz?

Between 1920 and 1922, hundreds of members of the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement left the defunct Habsburg Monarchy and sailed to Palestine, where a small group of members of the movement established Upper Bitania, one of the communities that laid the foundation for Israel's kibbutz movement.

Volume XXV of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry explores new understandings and approaches to Jewish "e;ethnicity.

';RevelatoryAs intimate and immediate as a whispered secret.

It is a common belief that Jews did nothing to resist their own fate in the Holocaust.