Judaism

They're discovering the healing powers of passion.

Sefer Brantshpigl is an important Yiddish religious/ethical work first published in Cracow, 1596.

Jews, Christians and Polytheists in the Ancient Synagogue explores the ways in which divergent ethnic, national and religious communities interacted with one another within the synagogue in the Greco-Roman period.

The present volume searches for different biblical perceptions of the wild, paying particular attention to the significance of fluid boundaries between the domestic and the wild, and to the options of crossing borders between them.

This book analyzes the exceptional normative impact of R.

David Patterson offers original insights into the dynamics that underlie the phenomenon of endemic antisemitism.

The developments in Judaism which occurred during the Second Temple period (c.

Throughout history, the relationship between Jews and their land has been a vibrant, much-debated topic within the Jewish world and in international political discourse.

Embarrassment and embracement are two moments in the reading, misreading and re-reading of scriptures, defined broadly to include both canonical and non-canonical texts.

American or Middle Eastern, Ashkenazi or Sephardi, insular or immersed in modern life-however diverse their situations or circumstances, Jews draw on common traditions and texts when they mark life's momentous events and rites of passage.

In a comprehensive examination of how Christian scholars in the United States received, interpreted, and understood Hebrew texts and the Jewish experience, Shalom Goldman explores Hebraism's relationship to American society.

A global journey showing how philosophy can transform our biggest disagreementsTeaching Plato in Palestine is part intellectual travelogue, part plea for integrating philosophy into our personal and public life.

From the 1880s, when systematic pogroms in Russia led to massive emigration, there have been two themes in Jewish history - persecution, culminating in the holocaust, and the corresponding search for a place in the world, which led to emigration to America, the rise of Zionism and the emergence of the State of Israel.

"e; Interviews with: Yitzhak Arad Leo Eitinger Emil Fackenheim Whitney Harris Jan Karski Arnost Lusting Mordecai Paldiel Marion Pritchard Dorothee Soelle Leon Wells Elie Wiesel Simon Wiesenthal The late Harry James Cargas was professor emeritus of literature and language at Webster University and author of thirty-two books, including Problems Unique to the Holocaust.

As the site of several miracles in the Jewish and Christian traditions, the Jordan is one of the world's holiest rivers.

How successful were the East European Jewish immigrants in London compared with the vast majority that went to New York?

In Contemporary Philosophical Theology, Charles Taliaferro and Chad Meister focus on key topics in contemporary philosophical theology within Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, as well as Hinduism and Buddhism.

As an old proverb puts it, 'Two Jews, three opinions.

In Christian Antisemitism: A History of Hate, Professor William Nicholls, a former minister in the Anglican Church and the founder of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of British Columbia, presents his stunning research, stating that Christian teaching is primarily responsible for antisemitism.

These ancient stories whisper truth to your soul.

This book explores the state of the American Jewish world in the early 21st century, after decades of accelerating change that has transformed it and all other religious groups in the United States.

The great majority of Holocaust scholarship concentrates heavily, if not almost completely, on the Final Solution from the German side.

In October 2018, a white supremacist murdered eleven Jewish worshipers and wounded six others at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the deadliest attack on Jews ever perpetrated in the United States.

This volume explores the fascinating phenomenon of noble death through pagan, Jewish and Christian sources.

One in a series of twenty Old Testament verse-by-verse commentary books edited by Max Anders.

Originally published in 1933, from the preface: "e;The aim of this particular venture is to present the writings now collected in the volume called the Bible in an order approaching that in which they came into being.

Die vielschichtigen Beziehungen zwischen Israel und Phönizien im 1.

This book analyzes and describes the development and aspects of imagery techniques, a primary mode of mystical experience, in twentieth century Jewish mysticism.

This book looks at the inferiority of women in the Torah''s vision, and whether the Bible and Talmud rise above patriarchal self-interest.

The body is an entity on which religious ideology is printed.

Moses Maimonides-a proud heir to the Andalusian tradition of Aristotelian philosophy-crafted a bold and original philosophical interpretation of Torah and Judaism.

An honest, probing look at the dynamics of the New Testament-in relation to problems that disconcert Jews and Christians today.

This book aims to construct a contemporary Jewish philosophy that accounts for virtue ethics or, rather, to give Jewish virtue ethics a contemporary language for its expression.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Das Judenchristentum in den Pseudoklementinen" verfügbar.

This is the first major commentary in English on Pesher Habakkuk for forty years.

Judah Halevi (ca.

This book argues that the destruction of Jerusalem is a key explanatory trope for early modern texts.

This innovative how-to guide and reference book on the Jewish holidays provides a well-rounded foundation for both knowledge and action.

This book takes readers on a philosophical discovery of a forgotten treasure, one born in the 14th century but which appears to belong to the 21st.

The Zechariah Tradition and the Gospel of Matthew is a comprehensive study of the ways Matthew utilizes Zechariah texts and traditions.

In Remembering Eden, Peter Thacher Lanfer seeks to evaluate texts that expand and explicitly interpret the expulsion narrative of Adam and Eve in Genesis beyond the biblical canon.