Judaism

On 8 March 1941, a 27-year-old Jewish Dutch student living in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam made the first entry in a diary that was to become one of the most remarkable documents to emerge from the Nazi Holocaust.

From the days of Plato, the problem of the efficacy and adequacy of the written word as a vehicle of human communication has challenged mankind, yet the mystery of how best to achieve clarity and exactitude of written expression has never been solved.

Theatre has, since the time of the Jewish Enlightenment, served the secular community in its conflict with the religious.

An exquisite combination of Judaism's common blessings, stories from everyday life, and tales and wisdom from Jewish tradition, this book is a source of inspiration and a cause for self-reflection.

Women rabbis are changing the face of Judaism.

Notions of place have always permeated Jewish life and consciousness.

For four decades Rabbi Bonder was immersed in spirituality and sought out by people who needed comfort.

Samuel Romanelli was a free spirit, a son of the Enlightenment, who spend most of his life travelling in search of adventure, knowledge, and patrons for his literary endeavors.

A trial lawyer by trade, a Christian by heart--author Mark Lanier has trained in biblical languages and devoted his life to studying and living the Bible.

The Rabbis of the first five centuries of the Common Era loom large in the Jewish tradition.

Julie Woods introduces students to the books of Jonah, Micah and Nahum in the Old Testament by examining the books' structures and characteristics.

This book examines an undertheorized topic in the study of religion and sacred texts: the figure of the neighbor.

This book is a unique compilation of essays about the genocidal persecution fuelling the Nazi regime in World War II.

The Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions includes authoritative yet accessible studies on a wide variety of topics dealing comparatively with Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as with the interactions between the adherents of these religions throughout history.

Can contemporary religion, and particularly Judaism, exist without being informed by history?

Jewish philosophy is often presented as an addendum to Jewish religion rather than as a rich and varied tradition in its own right, but the History of Jewish Philosophy explores the entire scope and variety of Jewish philosophy from philosophical interpretations of the Bible right up to contemporary Jewish feminist and postmodernist thought.

It is widely accepted that Jesus was a Jew.

An examination of typology about place in relation to the Virgin Mary.

The new Jewish spirituality lies somewhere between God's elusive presence in our world and our search for authentic language to describe it.

Volume 13 2017This is the thirteenth volume of the hard-copy edition of a journal that has been published online (www.

First published in 1982, The Triangular Connection explores the relationship between two countries, the USA and Israel, and Jews resident in America.

Scattered throughout many kabbalistic and hasidic texts are numerous teaching stories with reincarnation as their central theme.

There are many books devoted to explicating Jewish laws and customs relating to death and mourning and a wealth of studies addressing the significance of death practices around the world.

Embedded within the Bible lies a largely unknown story of the founding of early Israel and its religion, interwoven with tales documenting the creation of the Torah.

It is a common belief that Jews did nothing to resist their own fate in the Holocaust.

In The Formation of the Hebrew Bible David Carr rethinks both the methods and historical orientation points for research into the growth of the Hebrew Bible into its present form.

An historical and contemporary overview of the state of Jews and Judaism in the US.

The first-ever English translation of and commentary on The Book of Departure, which compiles the end-of-life stories of 42 holy men, sheds light on Jewish traditions about death, the afterlife and how to care for people in their final days.

Outside of the Bible, all of the known Near Eastern law collections were produced in the third to second millennia BCE, in cuneiform on clay tablets, and in major cities in Mesopotamia and in the Hittite Empire.

A comprehensive synthesis of medieval Jewish history between AD 1000 and 1500.

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

In this book, first published in 1973, Professor Parviz Morewedge, an expert on Islamic philosophy and mysticism, provides a critical exposition of one text of ibn Sina (Avicenna), the great Persian philosopher who lived from 980 to 1037.

This edited collection of essays examines how religions of the world represent, understand, theologize, theorize and respond to disability and chronic illness.

This book opens windows onto Jewish legal culture, by offering fourteen exploratory essays, each of which focuses on an aspect of Jewish law, broadly understood.

The great majority of Holocaust scholarship concentrates heavily, if not almost completely, on the Final Solution from the German side.

If you were to ask ten people, Who started Christianity?

Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) was one of the twentieth century’s most influential Jewish thinkers, a respected theologian and enthusiastic civil rights activist who marched to Selma with Martin Luther King, Jr.

Insights, Ideas and Thoughtful Questions for Discussing with Students the Wisdom Tales of the Ancient RabbisA helpful guide to creative use of Sage Tales: The Wisdom and Wonder of the Rabbis of the Talmud in the classroom.

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.

The view of ancient Israelite religion as monotheistic has long been traditional in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, religions that have elaborated in their own way the biblical image of a single male deity.

This book is a comprehensive account of how the Jews became a diaspora people.

What does it mean to re-vision Torah?

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Reveals the real, whole name of God and its place within each of us *; Explains how none of the God-names commonly used in the Bible is God's real name *; Shows how the real name of God unites all religions from both West and East *; Includes spiritual techniques, prayers, poems, and meditative chants to bring each of us into deep, personal, intimate, living relationship with God Of the many names of God commonly used in the Bible and other sacred literature, none is God's real name.

In the generation after Constantine the Great elevated Christianity to a dominant position in the Roman Empire, his nephew, the Emperor Julian, sought to reinstate the old gods to their former place of prominencein the face of intense opposition from the newly powerful Christian church.

The sixth and fifth centuries BCE were a time of constant re-identifications within Judean communities, both in exile and in the land; it was a time when Babylonian exilic ideologies captured a central position in Judean (Jewish) history and literature at the expense of silencing the voices of any other Judean communities.