Judaism

When we encounter a text, whether ancient or modern, we typically start at the beginning and work our way toward the end.

After the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.

Beginning with Marcel Ophus's documentary The Sorrow andthe Pity (1970) there has been an attempt to question the idea of a totally unified, courageous and resistant wartime France.

In this book, Yulia Egorova explores how South Asian Jews and Muslims relate to each other outside of a Western and Christian context, and reveals that despite some important differences, the relationship is still intrinsically connected to global narratives about Jews and Muslims.

The Talmud's Red Fence explores how rituals and beliefs concerning menstruation in the Babylonian Talmud and neighboring Sasanian religious texts were animated by difference and differentiation.

In this bold rereading of Freud's cultural texts, Diane Jonte-Pace uncovers an undeveloped "e;counterthesis,"e; one that repeatedly interrupts or subverts his well-known Oedipal masterplot.

Thomas Merton was recognized as one of those rare Western minds that are entirely at home with the Zen experience.

Judaism, as a religion and a way of life, has guided millions of lives and profoundly influenced its younger sisters, Christianity and Islam, as well as contributing major themes and norms to the liberal and humanistic traditions of the West.

Drawing on the great progress in Talmudic scholarship over the last century, The Stabilization of Rabbinic Culture is both an introduction to a close reading of rabbinic literature and a demonstration of the development of rabbinic thought on education in the first centuries of the Common Era.

The first annotated English edition of a classic early-twentieth-century Yiddish memoir that vividly describes Jewish life in a small Eastern European town.

The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Nationalism comprehensively surveys the sub-disciplinary area of religious nationalism, an interaction between religion and nationalism.

An Early History of Compassion explores the role of the emotional imagination within the context of Roman imperialism.

The author writes:"e;The focus of this book is on Judaism as it expresses itself in the Jewish holidays.

This book argues that one means of preventing genocide is to think concretely about our flesh-and-blood relations to fellow human beings.

This is a study of two metaphors, 'an eternal planting' and 'a house of holiness', which were used extensively by the DSS Community in expression of their self-understanding.

Spiritual and ethical lessons for the workaday world: how to do well-and do good.

Random Destinations examines how novels and short stories portray those who managed to escape from Central Europe in the 1930s following the rise of Nazism.

This book discusses 20th- and 21st-centuries' literary retellings of biblical texts, focusing on how fiction and poetry fill the extant narrative gaps present in the often-sparse biblical accounts and align the narratives with theological and/or cultural expectations of modern interpreting communities.

Most Holocaust scholars and survivors contend that the event was so catastrophic and unprecedented that it defies authentic representation in feature films.

A collection of caregiving tools combining the values of Jewish tradition and self-relationsuseful for practitioners of ANY faith!

Power and Politics in the Book of Judges studies political culture and behavior in premonarchic Israel, focusing on the protagonists in the book of Judges.

N'ilah, "e;the closing of the gates"e; is, in many ways, the most anticipated worship service in the entire Jewish calendar.

Although primogeniture is commonly assumed to have prevailed throughout the world and firstborns are regarded as most likely to achieve success, many of the most prominent figures in biblical literature are younger offspring, including Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Samuel, David, and Solomon.

The Gospel of John has long been recognized as being distinct from the Synoptic Gospels.

This Festschrift honours one of today's leading scholars of early Judaism and Christian origins.

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

In the period of Roman domination there were communities of Jews, some still in Palestine, some dispersed in and around the Roman Empire; they had to face at first the world-wide power of the pagan Romans and later on the emergence of Christianity as an Empire-wide religion.

This volume is a comprehensive but accessible guide to the major questions raised by the Hellenistic Jewish work, Joseph and Aseneth.

As Israelis and Palestinians negotiate separation and division of their land, Meron Benvenisti, former Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem, maintains that any expectations for "e;peaceful partition"e; are doomed.

The behaviour of many Poles towards the Jewish population during the Nazi occupation of Poland has always been a controversial issue.

Judaism is a monotheistic religion with a history of over 3,500 years.

For more than forty years there was a single synagogue in the quiet town of Williamette, Oregon.

The Mystical Exodus in Jungian Perspective explores the soul loss that results from personal, collective, and transgenerational trauma and the healing that unfolds through reconnection with the sacred.

The Jewish Chinese Nexus explores through a collection of articles the nexus between two of the oldest, intact, starkly contrasting and most interesting civilizations on earth; Jews and Chinese.

An authoritative and accessible reference work detailing the concepts and movements that distinguish Judaism and the Jewish experience.

"e;I knew a Man, who having nothing but a summary Notion of Religion himself, and being wicked and profligate to the last Degree in his Life, made a thorough Reformation in himself, by labouring to convert a Jew.

Pairing the two concepts of diaspora and modernism, Allison Schachter formulates a novel approach to modernist studies and diasporic cultural production.

A comprehensive presentation of the various aspects of Jewish life throughout the medieval Islamic world.

This book compares a variety of biblical narratives with the stories found in several Northwest Semitic inscriptions from the ancient kingdom of Judah and its contemporary Syro-Palestinian neighbors.

In the Jewish tradition, it is incumbent upon every generation to attempt to find meaning in its history.

A window into the Jewish People's connection to Israel-written especially for Christians.

Das praktische Hilfsmittel fur Vorlesungen und Seminare.

20th anniversary sequel to a seminal book of the Jewish renewal movement.