Judaism category: 3160 books
Finding a Spiritual Home
How a New Generation of Jews Can Transform the American Synagogue
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
The Jewish community has lost some of the most sensitive spiritual souls of this generation. They are Jews who were looking for God and found spiritual homes outside of Judaism. Their journeys traversed the Jewish community, but nothing there beckoned them. The creation of synagogue-communities in...
Yudisher Theriak
An Early Modern Yiddish Defense of Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The Yudisher Theriak [Jewish Theriac] by Zalman Zvi of Aufhausen, first published in Hanau, in 1615, was a response to an anti-Jewish work titled Jüdischer abgestreiffter Schlangenbalg [Jewish Shed Snakeskin], written by a Jewish convert to Chistianity, Samuel Friedrich Brenz, and published in Nürnberg...
Contemplative Nation
A Philosophical Account of Jewish Theological Language
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Contemplative Nation challenges the long-standing view that theology is not a vital part of the Jewish tradition. For political and philosophical reasons, both scholars of Judaism and Jewish thinkers have sought to minimize the role of theology in Judaism. This book constructs a new model for understanding...
Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture
Jewish Interpretation and Controversy in Medieval Languedoc
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture is a study of the great, and curiously underappreciated, engagement of a Medieval European Jewish community with the philosophic tradition. This lucid description of the Languedocian Jewish community's multigenerational cultivation of - and acculturation to - scientific...
by Kaufmann Kohler
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
In offering herewith to the English-reading public the present work on Jewish Theology, the result of many years of research and of years of activity as President and teacher at the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati, I bespeak for it that fairness of judgment to which every pioneer work is entitled....
by Mel Scult
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
“An important and powerful work that speaks to Mordecai M. Kaplan’s position as perhaps the most significant Jewish thinker of the twentieth century.” —(Deborah Dash Moore coeditor of Gender and Jewish History
Mordecai M. Kaplan, founder of the Jewish Reconstructionist movement, is...
The Hebrew Messiah
The Glory and Triumph of Israel
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
The Hebrew Messiah: The Glory and Triumph of Israel takes seriously the witness in the Tanakthe books of teaching, the prophets, and the writingsthat Judaism receives as its Scripture. It listens to that witness to discover the truth of the Hebrew Messiah. Drawing upon study inspired by an intense...
Who Made Early Christianity?
The Jewish Lives of the Apostle Paul
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
In this historical and theological study, John G. Gager undermines the myth of the Apostle Paul's rejection of Judaism, conversion to Christianity, and founding of Christian anti-Judaism. He finds that the rise of Christianity occurred well after Paul's death and attributes the distortion of the Apostle's...
The Midrash
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1994
The Midrash: An Introduction sets forth the way in which Judaism reads the Hebrew Bible. In this masterful presentation, the reader is introduced to the classics of Jewish Bible interpretation, with special attention to the way in which the ribbis of Talmudic times read the Pentateuch, the Book of...
First Steps in the Talmud
A Guide to the Confused
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The Talmud is a confusing piece of writing. It begins no where and ends no where but it does not move in a circle. It is written in several languages and follows rules that in certain circumstances trigger the use of one language over others. Its components are diverse. To translating it requires...
Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism
Fifth Series
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
This collection of eight essays draws on a half-year of work, the second six months of 2009. Neusner takes up three problems in the history of Religions, four essays on fundamental issues in form-history and the documentary hypothesis of the Rabbinic canon, and one theological essay. The reason Neusner...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The result for the history of Judaism of a documentary reading of the Rabbinic canonical sources illustrates the working of that hypothesis. It is the first major outcome of that hypothesis, but there are other implications, and a variety of new problems emerge from time to time as the work proceeds....
Moses Mendelssohn’s Living Script
Philosophy, Practice, History, Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786) is often described as the founder of modern Jewish thought and as a leading philosopher of the late Enlightenment. One of Mendelssohn's main concerns was how to conceive of the relationship between Judaism, philosophy, and the civic life of a modern state. Elias Sacks...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Volume 6 examines the history of Judaism during the second half of the Middle Ages. Through the first half of the Middle Ages, the Jewish communities of western Christendom lagged well behind those of eastern Christendom and the even more impressive Jewries of the Islamic world. As Western Christendom...