Judaism

In discussion with Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Franz Fischer and Emmanuel Levinas, Ephraim Meir outlines a novel conception of a selfhood that is grounded in dialogical thought.

This book employs cognitive linguistics to determine the foundational elements of the ancient Israelites' concept of teaching as reflected in the text of the Hebrew Bible and Ben Sira.

At this point of the scholarly debate on the nature of Second Temple pseudepigraphy, one may ask why another look at the problem is needed.

Music was one component of the cultural continuum that developed in the contiguous civilizations of the ancient Near East and of Greece and Rome.

The volume contains eight original studies, each of which focuses on a different chapter or central passage in Daniel and offers a new interpretation or reading of the passage in question.

Gender in the Book of Ben Sira is a semantic analysis and, also, an investigation of hermeneutical pathways for performing such an analysis.

The Habsburg Empire was one of the first regions where the academic study of Judaism took institutional shape in the nineteenth century.

The Book of Judith has aroused a great deal of scholarly interest in the last few decades.

This volume addresses two pivotal questions surrounding the composition of 1Maccabees.

Although in Second Temple literature we find a variety of songs concerned with the future of Jerusalem, little attempt has been made to analyse these comparatively as a generic group.

This volume discusses various conceptions of family and kinship in the context of deuterocanonical literature.

The phrase "e;Daughter of Zion"e; is in recent Bible translations often rendered "e;Daughter Zion"e;.

Military cemeteries are one of the most prominent cultural landscapes of Israel.

This monograph examines the place of chapters 3 and 4 in the larger argument of Hebrews, particularly the relationship of the people of God in Heb 3:7-4:13 to the surrounding discussion of the high priest.

Wilhelm Herzberg's novel Jewish Family Papers, which was first published under a pseudonym in 1868, was one of the bestselling German-Jewish books of the nineteenth century.

Magic realism has become a significant mode of expression in Jewish cultural production.

The impact of earlier works to the literature of early Judaism is an intensively researched topic in contemporary scholarship.

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This monograph is an investigation of Yahwistic votive practice during the Hellenistic period.

Professor Maurice Gilbert SJ is widely acknowledged as one of the leading authorities on biblical wisdom literature, in particular the Book of Ben Sira and the Wisdom of Solomon, on which he has produced many publications.

During the era of Jewish mass migration from Eastern Europe (from the 1880s until the First World War), Switzerland played an important role in absorbing immigrants.

Of all victims of Nazi persecution, German Jews had to suffer the Nazi yoke for the longest time.

Professor Moshe Bar-Asher, Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University and long-time president of the Academy of the Hebrew Language, has published more than 200 articles and sixteen books and edited aboout 90 books and collections.

Young Germans marched through Haifa shouting Heil Hitler!

The present volume is one of the first to concentrate on a specific theme of biblical interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls, namely the book of Genesis.

Sworn Enemies explains how the book of Ezekiel uses formulaic language from the exodus origin tradition - especially YHWH's oath - to craft an identity for the Judahite exiles.

In addition to three scrolls containing the Book of Joshua, the Qumran caves brought to light five previously unknown texts rewriting this book.

Irit Amit-Cohen explores the riddle behind disappearing citrus orchards and plantations from Israel's coastal scenery.

How far can Jewish life in the South during Reconstruction (1863-1877) be described as German in a period of American Jewry traditionally referred to as 'German Jewish' in historiography?