Judaism

Koheleth's powerful guidebook for living without certainty and security in a world of constant change can become a companion for your own spiritual journey.

Demetrios Tonias's Abraham in the Works of John Chrysostom is the first comprehensive examination of John Chrysostom's view of the patriarch Abraham.

This is a book of the key text of the Kabbalah, a work known as the Zohar ("e;Splendour"e;).

Reconstructs the idea of the creation of man in the image of God attributed in the Midrash and the Talmud.

Ce livre propose une étude originale du messianisme, loin de l’imaginaire eschatologique qui l’entoure.

Thanks to an excessive reliance on long-standing Western interpretations, American Christians rarely preach and teach Daniel.

One of the enduring problems in biblical studies is how the Bible came to be written.

William Horbury considers the issue of messianism as it arises in Jewish and Christian tradition.

An in-depth look at the Christian scripturesfrom a Jewish perspective.

Love, Marriage, and Family in the JewishLaw and Tradition is everything you wanted to know about the Jewish view on marriage, sexuality, and child bearing in clear and concise language.

A guide to the open-heart wisdom and secret rites of passage of thirteen sacred temples in Egypt *; Provides information on how to thrive as we move from the Piscean to the Aquarian age *; Offers guided meditations and rituals that connect to the ancient power of the Flower of Life, the Djed Pillar, the Ka, the energy body, and more The Temples of Light guides the reader, as the initiate, on a spiritual journey through thirteen of Egypt's sacred temples--a journey into the sanctuary of the open heart.

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The Environment of Compassion explores questions of what it means to be in relationship to nature, if and how it is a religious experience, and how understanding humans as part of nature alters theology.

Written in the high art style of prophetic witness, The Scroll of Anatiya reveals a new kind of biblical heroine who is fiercely passionate and sensual.

This volume explores the processes that led several modern Jewish leaders - rabbis, politicians, and intellectuals - to make radical changes to their ideology regarding Zionism, Socialism, and Orthodoxy.

Multicultural, Nonsectarian, Nondenominational "e;If there were an Eleventh Commandment, what would it be?

Explores future visions under a universalizing empire that many thought would never die.

This volume is the first complete English translation of Hasdai Crescas's Light of the Lord.

This volume deals with the female dynasty of the House of David and its influence on the Jewish Messianic Myth.

This study begins with an examination of Girolamo Zanchi's De Tribus Elohim (1572), setting this important defense of the doctrine of the Trinity in the immediate context of the recent rise of antitrinitarianism within the Reformed Palatinate.

An introduction to the ancient kabbalistic origins and meanings of the tarot *; Reveals the intimate relationship of the tarot to the esoteric teachings of the Torah and the Kabbalah*; Provides kabbalistic interpretations for all 78 traditional tarot cards*; Includes a detailed kabbalistic reading and interpretation of the Tree of Life spreadWhen the Greeks invaded Israel and forbade study of the Torah, the Jewish people began a secret method of Toranic study that appeared to be merely a simple way to fill time: playing cards.

You can achieve your dreams of financial stability for your congregation.

A few short words-repeated with passion & intention-can unlock treasure upon treasure of healing, wisdom & love"e;Chant is a path for all of us who lead with our hearts, who are determined to seek out the truth that is buried deep beneath the ground of our lives, and who have made a commitment to live that truth, from moment to moment, breath to breath, 'one little bit at a time.

Winner of the Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological PromiseMatthew Thiessen offers a nuanced and wide-ranging study of the nature of Jewish thought on Jewishness, circumcision, and conversion.

A study of the many different ways ancient Jewish scribes changed, or rewrote, the sacred and authoritative traditions they inherited.

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.

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.

With insight and scholarship, Alan Brill crisply outlines the traditional Jewish approaches to other religions for an age of globalization.

Longing is a universal human experience, born of the inevitable gulf between dream and reality, what we need and what we have.

In 1961 archaeologists discovered a family archive of legal papyri in a cave near the Dead Sea where their owner, the Jewish woman Babatha, had hidden them in 135 CE at the end of the Bar Kokhba revolt.

Building Bridges Among Abrahams Children honors the extraordinary career of Professor Michael Berenbaum, a luminary in Holocaust studies, museum design, filmmaking, and interfaith dialogue.

This book in two volumes is devoted to examining the first encounter between traditional Judaism and modern European culture, and the first thinkers who sought to combine the Torah with science, revelation with reason, prophecy with philosophy, Jewish ethics with European culture, worldliness with sanctity, and universalism with the particular redemption of the Jews.

Sheds light on the complex Jewish debates about the nature of priesthood in the early centuries of the Common Era.

This book is a consideration of major contemporary Black and Jewish understanding of God, examining how profound faith in a just God is sustained, and even strengthened, in the face of particularly horrific and long-standing evil and suffering in a community.

Vital to an agrarian communitys survival, threshing floors are agricultural spaces where crops are threshed and winnowed.

Herod the Great stands as one of history's most enigmatic figures, a ruler whose reign over Judea was marked by both monumental achievements and profound controversies.

Development, Learning, and Community uses data drawn from a study of pluralistic Jewish high schools to illustrate the complex and often challenging interplay between the cognitive and socio-aff ective elements of education.

Between 1977 and 1985, some 20,000 Ethiopian Jews left their homes in Ethiopia and - motivated by an ancient dream of returning to the land of their ancestors, 'Yerussalem' - embarked on a secret and highly traumatic exodus to Israel.

For too long, Jews have defined themselves in light of the bad things that have happened to them.

Addressed to Jews and non-Jews alike, though aware that these two reader groups were likelyn to approach the book with very different presuppositions, Daiches sets out to define Judaism in relation to philosophy, to explain Kant's philosophy through the superiority of halakhah, defend a biblically based Jewish interpretation of history, and champion Judaism as a religion of freedom guaranteed by halakhah (Jewish law).

This book presents critical engagements with the work of Hent de Vries, widely regarded as one of the most important living philosophers of religion.

As religion and politics become ever more intertwined, relationships between religion and political parties are of increasing global political significance.

The Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation of Jewish sacred writings) is of great importance in the history of both Judaism and Christianity.

Are You Not a Man of God?

Nadiv Lev.