Judaism

"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.

How did a Jewish teacher, healer, sage and mystic become the vehicle for so much hatred and harm directed against his own people?

Since arriving in Rome more than 2,000 years ago, the Jewish communities of Italy have retained their identity over millennia.

A Winner of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa 2023 Bernard Lewis PrizeThe chapters in this volume examine a few facets in the drama of how the survivors of the Holocaust contended with life after the darkest night in Jewish history.

Are there theoretical grounds for tolerance in the classical Jewish tradition?

Every Jewish institution,"e; writes Kerry Olitzky, "e;is undergoing significant change and is in danger of becoming irrelevant to the majority of North American Jews.

The NIV Application Commentary helps you communicate and apply biblical text effectively in today's context.

In separate multi-volume works, the project has presented form-analytical English translations of the Mishnah, Tosefta, Yerushalmi, and Bavli, outlined the Yerushalmi and the Bavli and compared these outlines.

The emergence of monotheism encourages human equality and justice for the poor when understood properly by believers.

This collected edition presents the texts of the more than 2500 Old and Imperial Aramaic inscriptions (10th-3rd cents.

Integrating patristics and early Jewish mysticism, this book examines Gregory of Nyssa's tabernacle imagery, as found in Life of Moses 2.

Living with the Law explores the marital disputes of Jews in medieval Islamic Egypt (1000-1250), relating medieval gossip, marital woes, and the voices of men and women of a world long gone.

Meditation and Judaism is a comprehensive work on Jewish meditation, encompassing the entire spectrum of Jewish thought-from the early Kabbalists to the modern Chassidic and Mussar masters, the sages of the Talmud, to the modern philosophers.

In this groundbreaking study, David Brauner explores the representation of Jewishness in a number of works by postwar British and American Jewish writers, identifying a transatlantic sensibility characterised by an insistent compulsion to explain themselves and their Jewishness in ambivalent terms.

The book assembles case studies on the human dimension of the Holocaust as illuminated in the academic work of preeminent Holocaust scholar Deborah Dwork, the founding director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, home of the first doctoral program focusing solely on the Holocaust and other genocides.

Twenty-five years ago, Ilan Stavans published his first book, Imagining Columbus: The Literary Voyage (1993).

This book reveals how Moses ibn Ezra, Judah Halevi, Moses Maimonides, and Shem Tov ibn Falaquera understood metaphor and imagination, and their role in the way human beings describe God.

In his Second Inaugural Address, delivered as the nation was in the throes of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that both sides "e;read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.

Translated for the first time in English, Lev Levanda's brilliant coming-of-age story of Russian Jewish students on the cusp of modernityin their struggle against religious chauvinism and an oppressive government.

Many people have heard the term Talmud but have little or no idea what it is, what it contains, and why it was written; moreover, few have ever actually looked into one of its works, and even fewer would make any sense of it if they did.

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This new approach introduces Kabbalah as a spiritual Jewish way of living, a practical wisdom for living, creativity and well being, and not merely a religious phenomenon or esoteric theology.

Resurrection of the dead represents one of the more enigmatic beliefs of Western religions to many modern readers.

This concise volume provides a lucid introduction to the genesis and development of Rabbinic Judaism.

The first of its kind, this companion to British-Jewish theatre brings a neglected dimension in the work of many prominent British theatre-makers to the fore.

Telling Terror in Judges 19 explores the value of performing a 'reparative reading' of the terror-filled story of the Levite's pilegesh (commonly referred to as the Levite's concubine) in Judges 19, and how such a reparative reading can be brought to bear upon elements of modern rape culture.

Nation and Nurture in Seventeenth-Century English Literature connects changing seventeenth-century English views of maternal nurture to the rise of the modern nation, especially between 1603 and 1675.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Judengemeinden in Schwaben im Kontext des Alten Reiches" verfügbar.

The sixth and fifth centuries BCE were a time of constant re-identifications within Judean communities, both in exile and in the land; it was a time when Babylonian exilic ideologies captured a central position in Judean (Jewish) history and literature at the expense of silencing the voices of any other Judean communities.

This book explores responses to The Merchant of Venice by Jewish writers, critics, theater artists, thinkers, religious leaders and institutions.

Presents a multidisciplinary study of how Nigerian pentecostals conceive of and engage with a spirit-filled world, arguing that the character of the movement is defined through an underlying "e;spell of the invisible.

In Jewish Justice David Novak explores the continuing role of Judaism for crafting ethics, politics, and theology.

Der Begriff oikonomia, der griechischen Umgangssprache entnommen, wird in seinen verschiedenen Bedeutungen innerhalb der biblischen und theologischen Literatur umfassend untersucht.

Over 2 million copies sold in The Word Biblical Commentary series.

This book looks at the first eight Sanskrit law codes written in India, between 600 BCE and 570 ACE.

Im Unterschied zum Deuteronomisten legt der Chronist großen Wert auf die Darstellung der Hiskianischen Reform.

Bringing together contributions from established scholars as well as promising younger academics, the seventeenth volume of this established series offers a broad-ranging view of why Judaism, a religion whose observance is more honored in the breach in most western Jewish communities, has garnered attention, authority, and controversy in the late twentieth century.

This volume explores the ubiquity of animals and the remarkable density of animal language in the New Testament and its contemporary world.

Winner of the 2017 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological PromiseWinner of the 2017 The George A.

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An accessible introduction to the Jewish understanding of the natural world and the key concepts central to Jewish environmentalism.

This collection of essays seeks to demonstrate that many biblical authors deliberately used Classical and Hellenistic Greek texts for inspiration when crafting many of the narratives in the Primary History.

The existence of suffering poses an obvious problem for the monotheistic religions.