Der im Gesamtzusammenhang des Pentateuchs hervorstechende gottesrechtliche Zuschnitt alttestamentlichen Rechts bildet keineswegs die einzige prägende Begründung der Gesetze.
David Novak, one of the most distinguished Jewish theologians in the world, offers a new interpretation of how the Jewish people and the Jewish tradition talk about God.
Jesus war Jude, ebenso Paulus & diese für den jüdisch-christlichen Dialog elementare Voraussetzung steht am Ende eines jahrzehntelangen mühsamen Lernprozesses in den christlichen Kirchen nach der nationalsozialistischen Zeit und nach der Schoa.
Martyrs create space and time through the actions they take, the fate they suffer, the stories they prompt, the cultural narratives against which they take place and the retelling of their tales in different places and contexts.
Der im Gesamtzusammenhang des Pentateuchs hervorstechende gottesrechtliche Zuschnitt alttestamentlichen Rechts bildet keineswegs die einzige prägende Begründung der Gesetze.
While premodern kabbalistic texts were not chronicles of historical events, they provided elaborate models for understanding the secret divine plan guiding human affairs.
Dieses Buch bietet eine Untersuchung von Gershom Scholems frühen Schriften zur Frage der Sprache und entwickelt eine neue Methodologie, um Texte des modernen jüdischen Denkens in Bezug auf Gender-Fragen zu lesen.
Creativity and Conflict reexamines interwar Polish Jewish history through the author's collected essays and scholarly responses of leading academicians.
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.
How the Jewish people went from farmers to merchantsIn 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Mesopotamia.
Topics covered include: spousal withholding of conjugal relations; halakhic understandings of the parent-child relationship; corporal punishment of children; the prohibition against seeking a second ruling after something has been declared forbidden; the agent who carries out his mandate for his own benefit, not the principal's; mid-twentieth century London organizations for the advancement of Jewish law.
*; Presents the teachings of revered Ecuadorian Kichwa elder Taita Alberto Taxo as vivid, experiential journeys*; Details how to return to intimacy with Nature and the natural world through communicating with the elements*; Shares Andean shamanic practices and ceremonies for opening the heart, expanding consciousness, and shamanic journeyingIn this deep dive into South American shamanism, Martha Winona Travers shares the teachings and practices she learned during her 22 years as an apprentice to revered Ecuadorian Kichwa elder, Taita Alberto Taxo.
This book explores the ways in which the early rabbis reshaped biblical laws of ritual purity and impurity and argues that the rabbis' new purity discourse generated a unique notion of a bodily self.
