Judaism

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Reading the Book of Isaiah in its original context is the crucial prerequisite for reading its citation and use in later interpretation, including the New Testament writings, argues Ben Witherington III.

You're probably missing some of the most interesting books of the Bible.

Scholars have long puzzled over the distinctive themes and sequence of John’s narrative in contrast to the accounts in the Synoptic Gospels.

Few scholars have so shaped the contemporary debate on the relation of early Christianity to early Judaism as E.

Jewish Blues presents a broad cultural, social, and intellectual history of the color blue in Jewish life between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries.

One of the central claims that Textual Rivalries makes is that the Kabbalah is often mislabeled as mysticism.

In this rich intellectual history of the French-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic lectures in Paris, Ethan Kleinberg addresses Levinas's Jewish life and its relation to his philosophical writings while making an argument for the role and importance of Levinas's Talmudic lessons.

In his revolutionary book Cross Vision, Gregory A.

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The Old Testament bears witness to an in-your-face, holy God--a God who gets down and dirty with creation and history; a God who gets in people's face with love and law, with power and purpose.

Reading the Book of Psalms in its original context is the crucial prerequisite for reading its citation and use in later interpretation, including the New Testament writings, argues Ben Witherington III.

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Biblical theologian Terence E.

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Enrich each day with wisdom from our greatest spiritual thinkers.

Do you want to understand Jesus of Nazareth, his apostles, and the rise of early Christianity?

History has an inescapable centrality in the Hebrew Bible, and biblical narratives are for many readers the best recognized and most memorable parts of the Bible.

The Pentateuch is the heart of the Hebrew Bible and the foundational document of Judaism.

What is the Bible?

Much of scholarly research on the Pentateuch has revolved around the question of sources and how they might be identified by differences in vocabulary, theme, and characterization.

In this groundbreaking work to identify and address God's absence in three key rape narratives in the Hebrew Bible, Leah Rediger Schulte finds a pattern that indicates a larger community crisis.

Preaching, according to Bonhoeffer, is like offering an apple to a child.

The story of the binding of Isaac presents problems and opportunities for people who seek to live faithfully in relationship with a God who surpasses our understanding.

The frank eroticism of the Song of Songs has long seemed out of place in the Hebrew Bible.

The book of Jubilees was written by a Jewish author in the second century BCE.

This commentary on the Historical Writings, excerpted from the Fortress Commentary on the Bible: The Old Testament and Apocrypha, engages readers in the work of biblical interpretation.

How does Martin Luther King, Jr.

This commentary on the Pentateuch, excerpted from the Fortress Commentary on the Bible: The Old Testament and Apocrypha, engages readers in the work of biblical interpretation.

The book of Isaiah places a distinctive emphasis on the miraculous.

In ways both confident and gentle, Stars Beneath Us brilliantly shows Gods presence in the ever-evolving cosmos.

This commentary on wisdom, worship, and poetry, excerpted from the Fortress Commentary on the Bible: The Old Testament and Apocrypha, engages readers in the work of biblical interpretation.

The profound ambivalence of the biblical portrayals of Hagar and Ishmaeldispossessed, yet protected; abandoned, yet given promises that rival those of the covenant with Abrahambelies easy characterizations of the Pentateuch's writers.

This groundbreaking volume presents a new translation of the text and detailed interpretation of almost every word or phrase in the book of Judges, drawing from archaeology and iconography, textual versions, biblical parallels, and extrabiblical texts, many never noted before.

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

Nadiv Lev.

A classic of faith-based activism-updated for a new generation.

At the beginning of the Common Era, Jewish renewal movements, including Jesus' ministry, had similar views: embracing moderate ascetic behavior.

What is it that has turned Jewish identity, the product of such a long history, into a problem that has been troubling the minds of Jewish thinkers and Hebrew authors for over two hundred years now?

Sacred Strategies is about eight synagogues that reached out and helped people connect to Jewish life in a new way-congregations that had gone from commonplace to extraordinary.

She's more than 3,000 years old.

In Let There Be Light, Howard Smith, a research astrophysicist and traditionally observant Jew, explores how modern scientific understandings of the cosmos complement Judaism's ancient mystical theology, the Kabbalah.

Should Genesis rightly be identified as law--that is, as torah or legal instruction for Israel?

Barricade Books re-introduces Up, Up, and Oy Vey to the book publishing world.

Dramatic changes have taken place in the last decade with respect to the views of the American Jewish community toward Israel and Zionism.

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.

With this book, Owen Power offers the first full-length intellectual history of the thinker Hugh Schonfield (1901-1988).

The desert wanderings of the Chosen People-and the spiritual lessons and encouragement they offer to us today-come alive in scripture teacher Sonja Corbitt's five-week Bible study on the Exodus account.

Abraham Joshua Heschel remains one of the most creative Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century.