Judaism

John J.

The basis of this collection of essays is the reading of a common topic from different perspectives.

Often, readers and commentators read the Proverbs as timeless observations and recommendations regarding human nature, valid for all cultures and places.

Die jüdische Hermeneutik der Tora wird in dieser Studie mittels der Exegese Benno Jacobs und im Vergleich zur literarkritischen Schule Julius Wellhausens beleuchtet.

This brief introduction to Judaism is designed to help readers understand this important religious tradition.

The father-daughter dyad features in the Hebrew Bible in all of narratives, laws, myths and metaphors.

The Bahir is one of the oldest and most important of all classical Kabbalah texts.

The Canadian Jewish Communist movement, an influential ideological voice within the Canadian left, played a major role in the politics of Jewish communities in cities such as Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg, as well as many smaller centres, between the 1920s and the 1950s.

Where was God when six million died?

The period between 1776-1826 signalled a major change in how Jewish identity was understood both by Jews and non-Jews throughout the Americas.

You can understand your Jewish friends and loved ones more fully.

Mahmoud Darwish: Palestine's Poet and the Other as the Beloved focuses on Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008), whose poetry has helped to shape Palestinian identity and foster Palestinian culture through many decades of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

This book deals with the Second World War in Southeastern Europe from the perspective of conditions on the ground during the conflict.

This is the first complete translation of Vikuah 'al Hokhmat ha-Kabbalah, a literary-philosophical dialogue composed by the great Italian Jewish scholar Samuel David Luzzatto (1800-1865), also known as Shadal.

This book investigates the place and meaning of consumption in Jewish lives and the roles Jews played in different consumer cultures in modern Europe and North America.

A Vital, Living Judaism Can Be Found When the Voice of the Past Engages Modern Experience"e;[This] synthesis of tradition and modernity is not a philosophy meant to serve as the platform for a new movement or institution, but a process of living experience among individuals and communities that choose to adopt its angle of vision.

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

This book presents how ancient Christianity must be understood from the viewpoint of the history of religions in late antiquity.

Leavy has hit it out of the parkA lot more than a biography.

Uses the tools of modern and postmodern philosophy and biblical criticism to elucidate the epistemology of the Tanakh.

Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra's commentary is one of the great biblical exegeses produced by medieval Jewry.

This Element provides an insightful analysis of Judaism and violence, with special attention given to Zionism and the Middle East conflict.

The Routledge Handbook of Muslim-Jewish Relations invites readers to deepen their understanding of the historical, social, cultural, and political themes that impact modern-day perceptions of interfaith dialogue.

**This title was originally published in 2007.

Central to understanding the prophecy and prayer of the Hebrew Bible are the unspoken assumptions that shaped them-their genres.

Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing.

Taking as its starting point the long-standing characterization of Milton as a "e;Hebraic"e; writer, Milton and the Rabbis probes the limits of the relationship between the seventeenth-century English poet and polemicist and his Jewish antecedents.

This book deals with two remarkable events--the worldwide transformations of the Jews in the modern age and the revival of the ancient Hebrew language.

Religious Studies and Rabbinics have overlapping yet distinct interests, subject matter, and methods.

A rabbi and his wife, as new believers in Yeshua, are in uncharted territory and faced with questions that demand answers.

This book deals with the Jewish engagement with blood: animal and human, real and metaphorical.

This book explores the story of the Israelites' worship of the Golden Calf in its Jewish, Christian, and Muslim contexts, from ancient Israel to the emergence of Islam.

Chingboi Guite Phaipi examines how biblical texts reinforced female subjugation in Northeast Indian tribal societies after tribes had accepted Christianity in the early 20th century.

The book argues that religion is a system of significant meanings that have an impact on other systems and spheres of social life, including cultural memory.

The Jewish intellectual tradition has a long and complex history that has resulted in significant and influential works of scholarship.

This work is of importance to anyone with an interest in whether women, especially Jewish Ashkenazic women, had a Renaissance.

Moïse (Moussâ) est un personnage majeur dans l’Islam.