Beginning with the Patriarchal narratives, a site known as HaMakom (The Place) became recognised and embedded within the nation's soul as unique and special.
"e;The Shocking History of the Jesuits (The Society of Jesus)"e; is a groundbreaking exposé that takes readers on a rollercoaster ride through the scandalous and often shocking history of the Jesuit order.
After the khurbn (destruction) perpetrated by Nazi Germany, its allies, and collaborators, the Yiddish communities in Eastern Europe were shattered and largely decimated.
In 1817, in what is now Iran, a child was born who would later claim to fulfill the deepest expectations of the Bible, the Qur'an, and centuries of religious longing.
Suspended by No String is a collection of essays, personal narrative, and poetical reflections for readers of all spiritual stripes—those who are devout, those who aren't sure what to believe, and those who may not be religious in a traditional sense but who nevertheless want to build a relationship with a force infinitely beyond themselves.
First published in 1957, this one-volume source for everything Jewish has delighted and instructed several generations in the English-speaking Jewish world.
First published in 1957, this one-volume source for everything Jewish has delighted and instructed several generations in the English-speaking Jewish world.
This book interprets Jesus Christ as a complicated, disunified literary character in Middle English literature, where he appears variously as king, traitor, victorious conqueror, sacrificial lamb, heroic knight, lover, and spouse--often as several contradictory figures in a single work.
This book interprets Jesus Christ as a complicated, disunified literary character in Middle English literature, where he appears variously as king, traitor, victorious conqueror, sacrificial lamb, heroic knight, lover, and spouse--often as several contradictory figures in a single work.
Zechariah, written to encourage the remnant of Israel struggling to follow the Lord, looks ahead to the eventual triumph of God's people and the coming of the Messiah.
The aim of this volume is to deepen the academic discussion on the topic of anti-Judaism in the Orthodox liturgy and to offer to a broader circle of readers a foundation for further debate.
In this new forty-five-chapter series, Rabbi Shmuly explores forty-five of the most influential philosophers throughout history and how Jewish ideas might engage with each of the philosophers and their philosophical projects.
As Israelis and Palestinians negotiate separation and division of their land, Meron Benvenisti, former Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem, maintains that any expectations for "e;peaceful partition"e; are doomed.
This broad-ranging study, the first full-length investigation of conceptions of faith and trust in the Judeo-Arabic tradition, explores a family of related conceptsfaith (imn, emunah), conviction (itiqad), and trust/reliance (tawakkul/ittikl)in Saadya, Baya, Halevi, Maimonides, Abraham Maimonides, and the Egyptian pietist circle of Abraham he-asid.
