Judaism

This book examines the current use of digital media in religious engagement and how new media can influence and alter faith and spirituality.

Scripture is replete with narratives that challenge a variety of philosophical concepts; including morality, divine benevolence, and human freedom.

How was the Jewish tradition reinvented in Russian-Jewish literature after a long period of assimilation, the Holocaust, and decades of Communism?

For people who never thought they would read a book of theology-let alone understand it, enjoy it, savor it and have it affect the way they think about their lives.

This volume examines the teaching of Jewishness within the context of medieval England.

This volume contributes to the growing field of Early Modern Jewish Atlantic History, while stimulating new discussions at the interface between Jewish Studies and Postcolonial Studies.

This book provides a new framework for conducting qualitative research into Asylum Seeking Refugees based on Emmanuel Levinas' ethic of the face-to-face encounter.

Comprising well over a thousand pages of densely written Aramaic, the compilation of texts known as the Zohar represents the collective wisdom of various strands of Jewish mysticism, or kabbalah, up to the thirteenth century.

The Kabbalah is divided into three branches-the theoretical, the meditative, and the practical.

The Fire and the Cloud is a non-supersessionist biblical Christology developed from close readings of Israel's Scriptures.

Following a detailed introduction to the world of messianic ideology and its significance in Jewish history, The Messiah Texts traces the progress of the messianic legend from its biblical beginnings to contemporary expressions.

The editors ofThe Jewish Annotated New Testamentshow how and why Jews and Christians read many of the same Biblical texts including passages from the Pentateuch, the Prophets, and the Psalms differently.

An essential biography of one of the Bible's most influential booksDuring its 2,500-year life, the book of Genesis has been the keystone to almost every important claim about reality, humanity, and God in Judaism and Christianity.

This book argues that Levi Gersonides articulates a unique model of virtue ethics among medieval Jewish thinkers.

In the Russian Empire of the 1870s and 1880s, while intellectuals and politicians furiously debated the "e;Jewish Question,"e; more and more acculturating Jews, who dressed, spoke, and behaved like non-Jews, appeared in real life and in literature.

Dive into the biblical history that provides a clear, in-depth explanation of the origin, history, and significance of the Middle East conflict.

This book demonstrates how the Russian thought and literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries influenced Jewish thought and Hebrew literature.

Die Verschränkung räumlicher Erfahrung mit Erinnerungsbildung und Fragen der kulturellen Zugehörigkeit kann in der jüdischen Gedächtnistradition und Literatur auf eine tiefe Verwurzelung verweisen.

Der Sammelband vereint mehrere, in einem längeren Zeitraum entstandene Aufsätze des Verfassers aus den Themenbereichen Vergleichende Semitistik und Nordwestsemitische Epigraphik / Religionsgeschichte Palästinas.

This book presents the first comprehensive comparison of how moral agency is constructed in Sirach, 4QInstruction, and the Hodayot.

The central proposition of God's Prescription for Mental Health and Religion is that the highway to mental health of individuals and of society is God's prescription of selfless devotion and service to others.

This book presents critical engagements with the work of Hent de Vries, widely regarded as one of the most important living philosophers of religion.

From the day that Bobby Zimmerman first turned on the radio in his parents' home in Hibbing, he'd had a pretty good idea that big things were happening.

Sirach is a book that raises a very distinctive set of problems.

Theologians and philosophers are turning again to questions of the meaning, or non-meaning, of the natural world for human self-understanding.

The disengagement of recent academic biblical study from church and synagogue has been widely noted, even by those within the discipline.

Covenant and the Jewish Conversion Question reevaluates conversion and Jewish identity through the lens of Rabbi Joseph B.

Explores ancient Jewish beliefs in life after death as well as contemporary spiritual experiences*; Reveals clear references to the afterlife, heaven, and spiritual encounters in ancient Hebrew texts, including the Torah, the Zohar, and the Dead Sea Scrolls*; Shares profound stories from the author's clinical therapy practice to show how afterlife beliefs can heal destructive emotional patterns and ancestral trauma*; Describes the psychological parameters of trauma resolution, enabling long-term healing and spiritual advancementExploring afterlife theories from the ancient world as well as contemporary afterlife encounters, Carla Wills-Brandon, Ph.

Exploring a contemporary Judaism rich with the textures of family, memory, and fellowship, Jodi Eichler-Levine takes readers inside a flourishing American Jewish crafting movement.

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The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the caves near Qumran in 1947 sparked near endless speculation about the possible connections between the Essenes--purportedly the inhabitants of the settlement--and the birth, nature, and growth of early Christianity.

Antiquarianismus ist eine gleichermaßen aktuelle wie wissenschaftshistorisch belastete Kategorie.

This one-volume guide to a healthy congregation combines the wisdom of a rabbi with the expertise of an organizational development consultant to demonstrate the power of positive relationships and show how to avoid some of the common traps that can lead to serious conflict.

The Nuremberg Miscellany [Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nurnberg, Bibliothek, 8(deg) Hs.

This book traces the journey of the Mofet Association, an educational coalition established by teachers who immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union.

Quotations on Jewish Sacred Music is a collection of over 700 quotations culled from an array of sources, including rabbinic and theological texts, sociological and anthropological studies, and historical and musicological examinations.

The Triumph of Irony in the Book of Judges focuses on the literary quality of the book of Judges.

'Content analysis'-which is a computer-assisted form of textual analysis-is used to examine divine activity in six prophetic texts, comparing God's activity to that of humans.

Der Band enthält teilweise grundlegend überarbeitete und aktualisierte Aufsätze von Otto Kaiser, dem Herausgeber der Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, aus den Jahren 1992-2002.

Contemplative Nation challenges the long-standing view that theology is not a vital part of the Jewish tradition.

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