Judaism

Judaism, as a religion and a way of life, has guided millions of lives and profoundly influenced its younger sisters, Christianity and Islam, as well as contributing major themes and norms to the liberal and humanistic traditions of the West.

In this timely and highly readable volume, Old Testament scholar William Holladay introduces the reader to the several ways in which Isaiah speaks, from ancient Jewish readings of the text, to Handel's lyrical use of it in his oratorio, Messiah, to the Christian community who has heard it foretelling the life and death of Jesus Christ.

Under the Soviet regime, millions of zeks (prisoners) were incarcerated in the forced labor camps, the Gulag.

First published in 1880, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ became a best-seller.

Nonexistence is ubiquitous, yet mysterious.

A magisterial, modern reading of the deepest mysteries in the Kabbalistic tradition.

This book redresses a misunderstanding in the history of biblical interpretation.

Demonstrating the connections between contemporary psychoanalysis, Jewish thought and Jewish history, this volume is a significant contribution to the traditions of dialogue, debate and change-within-continuity that epitomize these disciplines.

Palestine for the Third Time is a book of reportage originally published in Poland in 1933 by Ksawery Pruszynski, a young reporter working for a Polish newspaper, who went to Mandate Palestine to see for himself whether the Zionist dream of returning to Eretz Yisrael had a chance of turning into reality.

Das weisheitliche Denken ist Bildungsdenken.

Previously published as a special issue of The Journal of Israeli History, this book presents the reflections of historians from Israel, Europe, Canada and the United States concerning the similarities and differences between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism primarily in Europe and the Middle East.

An historical and contemporary overview of the state of Jews and Judaism in the US.

With this book, Yaakov Ariel offers the first comprehensive history of Protestant evangelization of Jews in America to the present day.

Celebrating the spirit of songIn A Song to Sing, a Life to Live, Don and Emily Saliers help readers see the connections between Saturday night music and Sunday morning music by exploring the spiritual dimensions of music itself.

Acclaimed evangelical speaker and writer Tony Campolo teams up with spiritual director and teacher Mary Albert Darling to reveal some gems from the liturgical Christian tradition to Protestants who may be ready for a refreshing change.

Seelsorge wird bei Notfällen, Katastrophen oder in Krisen geleistet.

The Salvation of Israel investigates Christianity's eschatological Jew: the role and characteristics of the Jews at the end of days in the Christian imagination.

This book examines migration and colonialism in the ancient Near East in the late second millennium BCE, with a focus on the Levant.

This volume in the Studying World Religions series is an essential guide to the study of Judaism.

This book, spanning the years 1957-1961, is the second in a four-part collection of documents from the archives of the Russian Federation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel State Archives portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the State of Israel.

Jewish life in Europe has undergone dramatic changes and transformations within the 20th century and also the last two decades.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

The classic statement of the ideas that form the Jewish people's religious consciousness, by one of the Jewish scholars of our century.

Explores the concept of revelation as it emerges from the Hebrew Scriptures and is interpreted in Jewish philosophy and theology.

This survey textbook offers an accessible introduction to the wisdom books and Psalms in their literary, theological, and canonical contexts.

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

The Book of Revelation and Early Jewish Textual Culture explores the relationship between the writing of Revelation and its early audience.

When Maimonides' Mishneh Torah (Code of Jewish Law) reached Lunel, France, a group of scholars composed twenty-four objections to his positions.

A myth exists that Jews can embrace the cultural components of Judaism without appreciating the legal aspects of the Jewish tradition.

Originally published in its sixth edition in 1929, this volume was one of the first to have appeared in England which was written from a liberal standpoint.

In der Reformationszeit spielt die Auseinandersetzung über den Zins und den Wucher eine bedeutsame Rolle.

Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Radiance) has amazed and overwhelmed readers ever since it emerged mysteriously in medieval Spain toward the end of the thirteenth century.

This new and revised edition of Christian-Jewish Relations 1000-1300 expands its survey of medieval Christian-Jewish relations in England, Spain, France and Germany with new material on canon law, biblical exegesis and Christian-Jewish polemics, along with an updated Further Reading section.

Bestselling author Charles Swindoll challenges us to take a closer look at Job's life, carefully examining his response to the unexpected and painful experiences that assaulted his once peaceful and God-honoring existence--and we might just find that Job is a hero after all.

This book examines the tales of three remarkable figures of the biblical world: the tragic prophet Jeremiah, and the two atypical prophets Jonah and Balaam.

Staging and Stagers in Modern Jewish Palestine sheds important light on the stagers of modern Jewish Palestine and on the processes and mechanisms that created the performative lore in other cultures, in ancient as well as modern times.

In the past thirty years, the Sino-Jewish encounter in modern China has increasingly garnered scholarly and popular attention.

Apocalytic literature has addressed human concerns for over two millennia.

This book surveys the role of Amsterdam's Sephardic merchants in the westward expansion of sugar production and trade in the seventeenth-century Atlantic.

How interwar Poland and its Jewish youth were instrumental in shaping the ideology of right-wing ZionismBy the late 1930s, as many as fifty thousand Polish Jews belonged to Betar, a youth movement known for its support of Vladimir Jabotinsky, the founder of right-wing Zionism.

Rabbinic documents of David, progenitor of the Messiah, carry forward the scriptural narrative of David the king.

In what could be boldly called a new genre, Gerald Stern reflects with wit, pathos, rage, and tenderness, on 85 years of life.

A Winner of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa 2023 Bernard Lewis PrizeLandes, a medievalist and historian of apocalyptic movements, takes us through the first years of the third millennium (2000-2003), documenting how a radical inability of Westerners to understand the medieval mentality that drove Global Jihad prompted a series of disastrous misinterpretations and misguided reactions that have shaped our so-far unhappy century.

This compact book relies on the story of two intertwined Jewish immigrant families to tell a multigenerational Jewish story about the interplay between public/social policy, cultural categories, and the lived experience of working class immigrant Jews from Eastern Europe, including trans-/intergenerational trauma.

Is Judaism essentially a religion of laws and commandments?