Judaism

This book argues that Zionism is only a coherent political stance when it is intelligently rooted in Judaism.

The book provides a comprehensive history of the third-largest Jewish community in Britain and fills an acknowledged gap in both Jewish and urban historiography.

Winner of the Jewish Book Council Nahum M.

The Psalms have resulted in controversies between Jews and Christians over the centuries and it is only from the mid twentieth century onwards that the two traditions have worked side by side in the academy at least.

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.

The Oxford Handbook of Mystical Theology provides a guide to the mystical element of Christianity as a theological phenomenon.

Up-to-date collection of non-Biblical texts that have only recently come to the attention of scholars.

In his Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, Hegel treats the religions of the world under the rubric "e;the determinate religion.

Within the vast and varied body of chasidic literature, rarely does one find a chasidic rebbe writing about himself.

Join author Laura Duhan-Kaplan in the Kabbalah practice of Sefirat ha'Omer, a forty-nine-day program of spiritual reflection.

Few direct clues exist to the everyday lives and beliefs of ordinary Jews in antiquity.

How the rise of Christianity profoundly influenced the development of Judaism in late antiquityIn late antiquity, as Christianity emerged from Judaism, it was not only the new religion that was being influenced by the old.

Where was God when six million died?

Faithful Renderings reads translation history through the lens of Jewish-Christian difference and, conversely, views Jewish-Christian difference as an effect of translation.

The nine essays that make up this volume provide cutting-edge studies of how sacred tradition is given new expression through vision and interpretation.

The Talmud chronicles the early development of rabbinic Judaism through the writings and commentaries of the rabbis whose teachings form its foundation.

This book collects in one readily-accessible volume the pioneering research of Carmel U.

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The question of how the Bible received its unusual form has been a question addressed by scholars since critical study of the text began.

A fitting conclusion to a well-researched and meticulously edited memoir translation.

The T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism provides a comprehensive reference resource of over 600 scholarly articles aimed at scholars and students interested in Judaism of the Second Temple Period.

"e;Not long after my grandmother died, my computer crashed and I lost the journal I had kept of her dying.

Our clothes conceal our naked bodies but what do they reveal about our souls?

Imperialism and Biblical Prophecy is a radically new interpretation of prophetic poetry.

Jewish thought is, in many ways, a paradox.

Explores marriage, sexual relations, and family law in late antique Christianity using the writings of Ephrem the Syrian.

A history of yoga's transformation from sacred discipline to exercise program to embodied spiritual practice *; Identifies the origin of exercise yoga as India's response to the mania for exercise sweeping the West in the early 20th century *; Examines yoga's transformations through the lives and accomplishments of 11 key figures, including Sri Yogendra, K.

The Mythology of Venus is a collection of essays that summarizes the archaeoastronomy, calendar associations, religious and cultural icons, and myths identified with the planet Venus.

The first state-of-the-art, comprehensive resource to encompass the wide breadth of the rapidly growing field of Judaism and health.

The Papon Affair is the definitive English-language work on a trial that is now considered to be the most significant in late twentieth-century France.

This book uses rhetorical analysis to illuminate one of the most fascinating and complicated speeches by Saint Paul: 2 Cor 10-13.

The prophetic books of the Old Testament offer a fascinating collection of oracles, poetic images, and theological ideas.

This book brings together the horrifying real life stories of women who woke up one day and were not who they thought they were.

Soviet Jews lived through a record number of traumatic events: the Great Terror, World War II, the Holocaust, the Famine of 1947, the Doctors' Plot, the antisemitic policies of the postwar period, and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Often when people have become alienated from their religious backgrounds, they access their traditions through lifecycle events such as marriage.

Training methods for tracking and wilderness observation woven into extraordinary real-life stories of intuitive animal-reading skills *; Explains technical tracking methods and observational skills such as shadowing and envisioning through the innermost thoughts of an accomplished native tracker *; Reveals how to track by expanding your awareness and consciousness to become one with the animal you are tracking *; Shares stories of tracking Wolves, Bears, Deer, Cougars, and many other animals Stepping beyond the shape of a footprint and into the unseen story of the track, veteran wilderness guide Tamarack Song takes you inside the eyes and mind of an intuitive tracker, with intimate stories where Frogs show the way out of the woods, scat reveals life histories, and Bears demonstrate how to find missing people.

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This book analyzes rabbinic responses to drought and disaster, revealing how the Talmudi grapples with problems of power, ethics, and ecology in Jewish late antiquity.

This study breaks new ground in describing how various linguistic and pragmatic mechanisms affect both the form of the narrative clause and the arrangement of the grammatical elements.

A book that challenges our most basic assumptions about Judeo-Christian monotheismContrary to popular belief, Judaism was not always strictly monotheistic.

A new history of the two major Jewish risings against Rome in the years following the destruction of Jerusalem.

Explores the aesthetic dimensions of biblical poetry, offering close readings of poems across the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.

A Heart Afire is an intimate, guided tour of many of the lesser-known and previously unpublished stories and teachings of the first three generations of Hasidism, especially those of the Ba'al Shem Tov, his heirs (male and female) and the students of his successor, the Maggid of Mezritch.

Outlines the principles and mechanics of the soul body, the spiritual vehicle that enables individual consciousness to survive the body's death *; Shows that the ancient Vedic, Egyptian, Hebraic, and Pythagorean traditions shared and understood this spiritual practice *; Reveals modern science as only now awakening to this ancient sacred scienceAncient peoples the world over understood that individual consciousness is rooted in a universal field of consciousness and is therefore eternal, surviving the passing of the physical body.

Sheds light on the complex Jewish debates about the nature of priesthood in the early centuries of the Common Era.