Judaism

Though well known to many scholars and critics in the field of Judaic studies, Hayim Greenberg remains relatively unknown.

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

Der zweite Band des Handbuchs enthält mehr als 650 Biographien aus aller Welt von der Spätantike bis zur Gegenwart: Politiker, Wissenschaftler, Theologen, Künstler, Schriftsteller, Publizisten, Vertreter des Wirtschaftslebens, die ihre Judenfeindschaft öffentlich gemacht haben und damit Antijudaismus oder Antisemitismus förderten.

In this unprecedented masterwork, The Scholar's Haggadah: Ashkenazic, Sephardic, and Oriental Versions, Heinrich Guggenheimer presents the first Haggadah to treat the texts of all Jewish groups on an equal footing and to use their divergences and concurrences as a key to the history of the text and an understanding of its development.

The widespread view is that prayer is the center of religious existence and that understanding the meaning of prayer requires that we assume God is its sole destination.

The relationship between morality and religion has long been controversial, familiar in its formulation as Euthyphro's dilemma: Is an act right because God commanded it or did God command it because it is right.

The Midrash: An Introduction sets forth the way in which Judaism reads the Hebrew Bible.

This book is a major contribution to the sociology of religion and to religious and biblical studies.

The student workbooks are available in print and the teacher guides as downloadable PDFs, in Hebrew and English.

Self-restraint or self-mastery may appear to be the opposite of erotic desire.

How can a Jewish approach to social justice offer positive change for America?

Robert Hayward offers a careful analysis of surviving accounts of the Temple and its service.

Completed shortly before Hamas carried out its barbaric October massacre,Hate Speech and Academic Freedomtakes up issues that have consequently gained new urgency in the academy worldwide.

Over 2 million copies sold in The Word Biblical Commentary series.

Der Zweite Weltkrieg führte zu intensiven Diskussionen über die internationale Ordnung nach dem Krieg.

Kantor writes from the perspective of a traditional Jew, covering events such as the Flood, giving of the Torah, and the fall of the Tower of Babel, placing these within the chronology of history along with the Spanish Inquisition, the Holocaust, and the founding of the State of Israel.

In den letzten drei Jahrzehnten hat die Erforschung der jüdischen Geschichte Thüringens einen großen Aufschwung genommen.

The Dream of Zion tells the story of the Jewish political effort to restore their ancient nation.

Stephen Wunrow addresses the pressing question of what the author of Hebrews meant by his descriptions of heaven, arguing that the author intended his references to heavenly space to be interpreted as realistic descriptions of a real place.

Explore the contemporary significance of the Old Testament and hear the Word of God afreshThis substantive and useful commentary on the book of Numbers is both critically engaged and sensitive to the theological contributions of the text.

Long neglected by scholars, the Dead Sea scrolls rewriting Samuel-Kings shed precious light on the ancient Jewish interpretation of these books.

Self-Portrait, with Parents and Footnotes is a story of movement.

Comprehensive discussion of how languages and translations were perceived and practised in the multilingual Jewish societies of Late Antiquity.

Edgar and Brigitte: A German Jewish Passage to America is the fruit of an extraordinary archive of personal journals, letters, speeches, and published writings left by Edgar and Brigitte Bodenheimer, who emigrated from Nazi Germany in 1933 and became American law professors.

The book examines the history of the genesis of all the Old Testament texts where there is talk of "Jehovah's Ark" or "The Ark of the Covenant", i.

Wie alle Bände der Reihe Kirchen- und Theologiegeschichte in Quellen bietet auch der neu aufgelegte Band zur Alten Kirche knappe aussagekräftige Texte mit Erläuterungen zum Eigenstudium und zur Unterstützung von Vorlesungen und Seminaren.

The path toward modern Jewish politics, a process that required a dramatic reconstruction of Jewish life, may have emerged during a far earlier time frame and in a different geographic and cultural context than has previously been thought.

This book includes a set of selected revised and extended versions of the best papers presented at the 13th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI 2021) - held as an online event, from October 25 to 27, 2021.

The T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism provides a comprehensive reference resource of over 600 scholarly articles aimed at scholars and students interested in Judaism of the Second Temple Period.

Understanding Zionism is a detailed introduction to the background and development of the Zionist movement, its various streams, and its impact on government and society in Israel.

This insightful book critically reviews and presents an accessible introduction to the life and work of one of the most celebrated modern psychoanalysts, Michael Eigen.

Der Kommentar umfasst den zweiten Teil des Exodusbuches, Ex 15,22-40,38.

"e;There are many aspects to this task of rabbinic training, but four closely related questions rise to the surface as requiring primary attention.

Since the classical period, Jewish scholars have drawn on developments in philosophy to enrich our understanding of Judaism.

An investigation into the real historical figure of King David and the real location of the Temple of Solomon *; Identifies King David as Pharaoh Tuthmosis III of the 18th Dynasty and David's son Solomon as Pharaoh Amenhotep, Tuthmosis's successor *; Shows how the Temple of Solomon described in the Bible corresponds with the Mortuary Temple of Luxor in Egypt *; Explains how David was not a descendant of Isaac but his father and how biblical narrators changed the original story of Abraham and Isaac to hide his Egyptian identity During the last two centuries, thousands of ancient documents from different sites in the Middle East have been uncovered.

Haskalah and Beyond deals with the Hebrew Haskalah (Enlightenment) - the literary, cultural, and social movement in the 18th and 19th centuries in Europe.

Raimund Fastenbauer präsentiert in zwei Teilen nicht nur die internen Entwicklungen der jüdischen Gemeinde Wien und der IKG als ihrer Vertretungsbehörde, sondern auch ihre Beziehungen und Konflikte zur politischen Umwelt.

Ancient Jewish sacrifice has long been misunderstood.

Studying Paul's Letters provides a survey of the most relevant current methods in Paul scholarship.

In this book, Yulia Egorova explores how South Asian Jews and Muslims relate to each other outside of a Western and Christian context, and reveals that despite some important differences, the relationship is still intrinsically connected to global narratives about Jews and Muslims.

From fleeing the Warsaw Ghetto and living underground to fighting for social justice in 1960s' Seattle and helping smash the communist system in 1980s' Poland, this is a narrative that erupts into critical moments in Jewish, Polish, and American history.

The recent renewal of the faith-reason debate has focused attention on earlier episodes in its history.

This guide to Ezra and Nehemiah showcases the latest developments and most up-to-date scholarship on these important texts.