Judaism

An essential introduction to Josephus's momentous war narrativeThe Jewish War is Josephus's superbly evocative account of the Jewish revolt against Rome, which was crushed in 70 CE with the siege of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple.

In Living Letters of the Law, Jeremy Cohen investigates the images of Jews and Judaism in the works of medieval Christian theologians from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas.

At the core of Judaism stands a body of traditions that have remained consistent over millennia.

Pages From My Life emphasizes how a general liberal arts background can serve as a basis for a successful career with voluntary organizations that require grants from foundations, corporations, government, and individuals, obtained by the submission of fundraising proposals drafted by associates.

This inspiring and entertaining journal relates Doug Boyd's personal odyssey through ancient and traditional cultures from around the world in search of a practical and relevant mysticism.

From Karl Marx to the Marx brothers, the Routledge Who's Who in Jewish History presents a complete reference guide to over a thousand prominent men and women who have shaped Jewish culture.

"e;I am not a particularly Jewish thinker,"e; said Emmanuel Levinas, "e;I am just a thinker.

While Willy has neither the multi-generational sweep nor the moral gravitas of I.

In this book, Sephardism is defined not as an expression of Sephardic identity but as a politicized literary metaphor.

Contemplative Nation challenges the long-standing view that theology is not a vital part of the Jewish tradition.

Until the 19th century, women were regularly excluded from graduate education.

During the last twelve years, Dr.

In 1631, at the epicenter of the worst excesses of the European witch-hunts, Friedrich Spee, a Jesuit priest, published the Cautio Criminalis, a book speaking out against the trials that were sending thousands of innocent people to gruesome deaths.

As the greatest book of Jewish mysticism, the Zohar is a revered and much-studied work.

This brand-new title offers the reader an accessible and chronological presentation of the history and development of this most unique of philosophies.

In the Zohar, the jewel in the crown of Jewish mystical literature, the verse "e;A river flows from Eden to water the garden"e; (Genesis 2:10) symbolizes the river of divine plenty that unceasingly flows from the depths of divinity into the garden of reality.

Glory and Agony is the first history of the shifting attitudes toward national sacrifice in Hebrew culture over the last century.

In this groundbreaking work, Joseph Fitzpatrick challenges the traditional interpretation of chapter three of Genesis: the story of Adam and Eve in Eden.

Founded in the sixteenth century, the Demirdashiya Sufi order in Cairo has played an influential role in Egypt's public life, and through a line of family sheikhs has channeled the impulses of its Sufi origins into different types of reform.

Inventing New Beginnings is the first book-length study to examine the conceptual underpinnings of the "e;Jewish Renaissance,"e; or "e;return"e; to Judaism, that captured much of German-speaking Jewry between 1890 and 1938.

Jésus de Nazareth, fils de Marie, a été appelé Rabbi, Prophète, Messie, Fils de Dieu, etc.

Le monde du Talmud, ce monument de la littérature juive, est, à une écrasante majorité, un monde d'hommes, celui des Rabbins et des Sages.

Design Discourse in Abrahamic Traditions reconnects discussion of design arguments to its Jewish, Christian, and Muslim history.

Constantin Brunner (1862-1937), philosophe allemand d’origine juive, inspiré par l’oeuvre de Spinoza, antinazi de la première heure, est contraint par l’arrivée au pouvoir d’Hitler, à s’exiler aux Pays-Bas avec sa famille.

Continuing the authors commitment to neo-traditional constructive Jewish theology, this book is a sequel to Gellmans trilogy of constructive Jewish theology with Academic Studies Press.

Before they were both internationally renowned philosophers, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Franz Rosenzweig were young German soldiers fighting in World War I corresponding by letter and forming the foundation of their deep intellectual friendship.

One sure fact of humanity is that we all cherish our opinions and will often strongly resist efforts by others to change them.

Figuring Jerusalem explores how Hebrew writers have imagined Jerusalem, both from the distance of exile and from within its sacred walls.

Moses Maimonides's Guide of the Perplexed is the greatest philosophical text in the history of Jewish thought and a major work of the Middle Ages.

Between 1780 and 1937, Jews in Germany produced numerous new translations of the Hebrew Bible into German.

For many Jewish people in the mid-twentieth century, Zionism was an unquestionable tenet of what it meant to be Jewish.

The identity of contemporary Jews is multifaceted, no longer necessarily defined by an observance of the Torah and God's commandments.

Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are usually treated as autonomous religions, but in fact across the long course of their histories the three religions have developed in interaction with one another.

First published in 1957, Nathan Glazer's classic, historical study of Judaism in America has been described by the New York Times Book Review as "e;a remarkable story .

More than two decades have passed since Chicago published the first volume of this groundbreaking work in the Religion and Postmodernism series.

In turn-of-the-century Vienna, Karl Kraus created a bold new style of media criticism, penning incisive satires that elicited both admiration and outrage.

Three scholars of religion explore literature and the literary as sites of critical transformation.

What is the role of love in opening and sustaining the temporal worlds we inhabit?

In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas.

"e;What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?

Monotheism is a powerful religious concept shaped by competing ideas and the problems they raised.

In this original study, Moshe Idel, an eminent scholar of Jewish mysticism and thought, and the cognitive neuroscientist and neurologist Shahar Arzy combine their considerable expertise to explore the mysteries of the Kabbalah from an entirely new perspective: that of the human brain.

In this eagerly awaited book, political theorist Michael Walzer reports his findings after decades of reading and thinking about the politics of the Hebrew Bible.

What is sin?

A fresh interpretation of the final major sections of the Hebrew book of Ezekiel, chapters 38-48 Stephen L.

A beautifully written exploration of religion's role in a secular, modern politics, by an accomplished scholar of critical theoryMigrants in the Profane takes its title from an intriguing remark by Theodor W.

In this wide-ranging discussion of Kabbalah—from the mystical trends of medieval Judaism to modern Hasidism—one of the world’s foremost scholars considers different visions of the nature of the sacred text and of the methods to interpret it.

Divination, the use of special talents and techniques to gain divine knowledge, was practiced in many different forms in ancient Israel and throughout the ancient world.

This sweeping survey of the history of Kabbalah in Italy represents a major contribution from one of the world's foremost Kabbalah scholars.