Judaism

What is the difference between writing a novel about the Holocaust and fabricating a memoir?

Sixteen scholars from around the globe gathered at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in the bucolic Yarnton Manor in the Oxfordshire countryside in June 2014, for the first (now annual) Oxford Summer Institute on Modern and Contemporary Judaism.

Margarete Susman was among the great Jewish women philosophers of the twentieth century, and largely unknown to many today.

An examination of the presence of theophanic scenes in the final form of the Pentateuch, which argues that rather than there being a single, over-arching theophanic “type-scene” there are multiple such scenes which reflect the individual theological tendencies of the biblical books within which they appear.

The contributors and editors dedicate this volume of research to Professor Stefan C.

Unter dem Schlagwort eines ,Neuen Kosmopolitismus’ plädieren Theoretiker*innen verschiedener Disziplinen seit Beginn des 21.

Most studies of the history of interpretation of Song of Songs focus on its interpretation from late antiquity to modernity.

The first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern JudaismThis is the first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism.

The Oxford Handbook of Historical Books of the Hebrew Bible is a collection of essays that provide resources for the interpretation of the books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah.

Over the first eight centuries CE, the religious cultures of Middle Eastern, Mediterranean and many European lands transformed.

This book explores three schools of fascinating, talented, and gifted scholars whose philosophies assimilated the Jewish and secular cultures of their respective homelands: they include halakhists from Rabbi Ettlinger to Rabbi Eliezer Berkowitz; Jewish philosophers from Isaac Bernays to Yeshayau Leibowitz; and biblical commentators such as Samuel David Luzzatto and Rabbi Umberto Cassuto.

In this book, we will share forty lessons, each with its own unique theme.

Religious pluralism is everywhere in today's politics.

Pioneering biblical critic, theorist of democracy, and legendary conflater of God and nature, Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was excommunicated by the Sephardic Jews of Amsterdam in 1656 for his "e;horrible heresies"e; and "e;monstrous deeds.

For nearly a thousand years there has been a Jewish presence in Britain.

This book focuses on the national conceptualization of Judaism and Jews by German neo-Pietists from the early Restoration (1815) until the New Era (neue Ara, 1858-1861), at which point Prussia and other German states embarked on a liberal course.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, prominent social thinkers in France, Germany, and the United States sought to understand the modern world taking shape around them.

Printed editions of midrashim, rabbinic expositions of the Bible, flooded the market for Hebrew books in the sixteenth century.

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When Baker yearns for something more, she discovers that the Christian message answers the deep yearning within each of us to resolve human suffering.

The term Ethical Monotheism is an important marker in Judaism's tumultuous transition into the modern era.

Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumJewish Responses to Persecution: Volume II, 1938-1940 is the second volume of the five-volume set within the series "e;Documenting Life and Destruction: Holocaust Sources in Context.

In this book, Benjamin Strosberg explores difficulties and anxieties inherent in studying, defining, and defending against anti-Semitism by tracing a concurrent difficulty in thinking about Jewishness, which has historically served as a limit case for central social categories such as outsider, religion, race, gender, and nation.

Walter Brueggemann declares that the necessary character of truly prophetic preaching today is "e;a contestation between narratives.

Channeled Transmissions from Yeshua offering evolved, authentic, and original wisdom for the deepest realization of truth, love, and peace through balance, liberation, and transcendence from the burdens that anchor us to suffering and fear.

Ratified by the Parliament of the World's Religions in 1993 and expanded in 2018, "e;Towards a Global Ethic (An Initial Declaration),"e; or the Global Ethic, expresses the minimal set of principles shared by people-religious or not.

Weiss examines the style and method of Hermann Cohen's magnum opus, Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism.

The messages in this book contain words of encouragement for anyone who is struggling with a physical affliction or a wide variety of other life altering challenges.

Good and evil, clean and unclean, rich and poor, self and other.

In A Beginner's Guide to The Steinsaltz Talmud, Rabbi Judith Z.

Discusses the problems Maimonides encountered, showing the depth and breadth of his philosophical thought.

A Physician Under the Nazis are the memoirs of the first forty years (1909-1948) of the life of Henry Glenwick.

A Probing and Powerful Look at the Role You Playin Shaping Your Relationship with God "e;No matter how hard we look, the God of Israel cannot be seen.

This book is the first in-depth comparative analysis of envy, jealousy, and vengefulness experienced by divine personalities in the Hebrew Bible and ancient Greek texts and the functions served by attributing negative emotions and traits to one's gods.

Meetings sets forth the life of one of the twentieth-century's greatest spiritual philosophers in his own words.

Frumspeak examines the unique linguistic habits of Orthodox, native-born Americans.

Adele Reinhartz has been studying and teaching the Gospel of John for many years.

One of the cornerstones of the religious Jewish experience in all its variations is Torah study, and this learning is considered a central criterion for leadership.

Was Esther uniquean anomaly in patriarchal society?

Examines Israeli identity by exploring its historical narratives, such as crusader and Canaanite challenges, and proposes a new meta-narrative - Mediterraneanism.