Judaism

In Painstaker, Galbraith takes stock of life, building an inventory of faith, regret, travel, parenthood, and hardship both physical and mental.

Awarded Honorable Mention for the Jordan Schnitzer Book AwardIn nineteenth-century Eastern Europe, the Jewish-run tavern was often the center of leisure, hospitality, business, and even religious festivities.

Emotions in Jewish Music is an insider's view of music's impact on Jewish devotion and identity.

This book explores the protests of Job from the perspectives of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic religious and philosophical traditions.

Providing an excellent overview of the latest thinking in Maimonides studies, this book uses a novel philosophical approach to examine whether Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed contains a naturalistic doctrine of salvation after death.

First published in 1950, Jewish Religious Conflicts gives an account of the principal cleavages that have taken place within the Jewish people since the close of the Old Testament over questions of religious faith, doctrine and practice.

"Taten in Texten" bietet neue Perspektiven auf prophetische Zeichenhandlungen, für die Andrea Beyer das kulturpsychologische Handlungsmodell Ernst E.

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Meir Wieseltier's verbal power, historical awareness, and passionate engagement have placed him in the first rank of contemporary Hebrew poetry.

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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.

This contribution to the global history of ideas uses biographical profiles of 18th-century contemporaries to find what Salafist and Sufi Islam, Evangelical Protestant and Jansenist Catholic Christianity, and Hasidic Judaism have in common.

This timely book on social work and antisemitism fills an important gap in social work education and in the profession.

Based on never previously explored personal accounts and archival documentation, this book examines life and death in the Theresienstadt ghetto, seen through the eyes of the Jewish victims from Denmark.

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.

This book is an exercise in the systematic recourse to anachronism as a theological-exegetical mode of apologetics.

Originally published in 1995, The Antievolution Pamphlets of Harry Rimmer is the sixth volume in the series, Creationism in Twentieth Century America.

A fresh, deeply biblical account of God's expanding grace and mercy, tracing how the Bible's narrative points to the full inclusion of LGBTQ people in Christian communities Discussions of the Bible and human sexuality often focus on a scattered handful of specific passages.

This book sheds an interdisciplinary light on 'transforming bodies': bodies that have been subjected to, contributed to, or have resisted social transformations within religious or secular contexts in contemporary Europe.

The Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) is the best-known repository of the teachings of Jesus and one of the most studied.

This comparative study examines how scriptures - the Bible and the Qur''an - were interpreted in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam throughout history.

Theopolitics and the Era of the Witness focuses on witnessing in the aftermath of political atrocity or genocide.

In this book, Lenn E.

Isaak Alfasis Kodifikationswerk, das Sefer ha-Halakhot, wird als bedeutendes Werk innerhalb des jüdischen Rechts geschätzt, ist jedoch bisher kaum wissenschaftlich untersucht worden.

Similarities between esoteric and mystical currents in different religious traditions have long interested scholars.

In his brilliant introduction on the Mishnah, Jacob Neusner asks:How do you read a book that does not identify its author, tell you where it comes from, or explain why it was written - a book without a preface?

New York Times bestselling author and host of the podcast Nurture vs Nurture Dr.

Comprised of rabbinic debates in the aftermath of the destruction of the Second Temple (70 C.

While many ancient Jewish and Christian leaders voiced opposition to Greek and Roman theater, this volume demonstrates that by the time the public performance of classical drama ceased at the end of antiquity the ideals of Jews and Christians had already been shaped by it in profound and lasting ways.

Divination, the use of special talents and techniques to gain divine knowledge, was practiced in many different forms in ancient Israel and throughout the ancient world.

A Profound and Stirring Call to Action in Our Troubled World-from One of America's Great Religious Leaders"e;Conscience may be understood as the hidden inner compass that guides our lives and must be searched for and recovered repeatedly.

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Written BY Preachers and Teachers FOR Preachers and TeachersCombining fresh insights with readable exposition and relatable examples, The Preacher's Commentary will help you minister to others and see their lives transformed through the power of God's Word.

Introducing students to the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament, Ernest Lucas examines the book's structure and characteristics.

In comparison to Mark and Luke, the First Gospel contains a striking preponderance of economic language in passages dealing with sin, righteousness, and divine recompense.

The tale of friendship between two people, one Israeli and one Palestinian, that symbolizes the hope for peace in the Middle East.

In ancient Israel the production of food was a basic concern of almost every Israelite.

Franklin Roosevelt was the first great hero of American Jews.

It is widely accepted that Jesus was a Jew.

This classic text, the last major work by the great Hebrew Bible scholar Gerhard von Rad, has long been unavailable in North America.

Coherent Judaism begins by excavating the theologies within the Torah and tracing their careers through the Jewish Enlightenment of the eighteenth century.