Judaism list 27

The Reluctant Jew

by Michael Grossman
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2007

Even if you are agnostic or hard-core atheist there is a dazzling, thought-expanding, bright side to religion you may have overlooked. Living a spiritual life in the tradition of the Jewish faith, does not mean mindless adherence to outdated dogma. Judaism, instead, can be a source of exhilarating...

The Jews and the Bible

by Jean-Christophe Attias
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014

Despite its deceptively simple title, this book ponders the thorny issue of the place of the Bible in Jewish religion and culture. By thoroughly examining the complex link that the Jews have formed with the Bible, Jewish scholar Jean-Christophe Attias raises the uncomfortable question of whether it...

Coming of Age in Jewish America

Bar and Bat Mitzvah Reinterpreted

by Patricia Keer Munro
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016

The Jewish practice of bar mitzvah dates back to the twelfth century, but this ancient cultural ritual has changed radically since then, evolving with the times and adapting to local conditions. For many Jewish-American families, a child’s bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah is both a major social event...

Yom Kippur Party Goods

by Philip Gold
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012

Philip Gold, an accomplished writer, journalist, scholar, wandered forty years before returning to the Judaism he'd left behind. But he didn't return so much as bring back the seeds of a new kind of Judaism with him. YOM KIPPUR PARTY GOODS is much more than a personal tale, am memoir of pain and seeking...

The Mishnah

An Introduction

by Jacob Neusner
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1988

In his brilliant introduction on the Mishnah, Jacob Neusner asks: How do you read a book that does not identify its author, tell you where it comes from, or explain why it was written – a book without a preface? And how do you identify a book with neither a beginning nor end, lacking table of contents...

The Breaking of Bread and the Breaking of Boundaries

A Study of the Metaphor of Bread in the Gospel of Matthew

by Minkyu Lee
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015

This book investigates the Matthean use of bread and the breaking of bread in light of cognitive conceptual metaphor, which are not only intertwined within Matthew’s narrative plots but also function to represent Matthew’s communal identity and ideological vision. The metaphor of bread and its...

Execution and Invention

Death Penalty Discourse in Early Rabbinic and Christian Cultures

by Beth A. Berkowitz
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2006

The death penalty in classical Judaism has been a highly politicized subject in modern scholarship. Enlightenment attacks on the Talmud's legitimacy led scholars to use the Talmud's criminal law as evidence for its elevated morals. But even more pressing was the need to prove Jews' innocence of the...

The Chosen People

A Study of Jewish History from the Time of the Exile until the Revolt of Bar Kocheba

by John Allegro
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015

The Chosen People tells the history of the Jews from the conquest of Jersualem by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon in 587 B.C.E. to the Second Jewish Revolt of C.E. 132. John Allegro bases his account on traditional texts — books of the Old Testament, Josephus, Philo Judaeus, Dio Cassius, and others —...

The Cambridge Companion to Philo

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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009

The works of Philo of Alexandria, a slightly older contemporary of Jesus and Paul, constitute an essential source for the study of Judaism and the rise of Christianity. They are also of extreme importance for understanding the Greek philosophy of the time and help to explain the onset of new forms...

Jesus and the Judaism of His Time

by Irving M. Zeitlin
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013

The main aim of this work is to understand Jesus as he saw himself, and to compare that self-understanding with the ways in which others have grasped the nature of his mission.

Gender and Timebound Commandments in Judaism

by Elizabeth Shanks Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013

The rule that exempts women from rituals that need to be performed at specific times (so-called timebound, positive commandments) has served for centuries to stabilize Jewish gender. It has provided a rationale for women's centrality at home and their absence from the synagogue. Departing from dominant...

The Jewish Approach to Repairing the World (Tikkun Olam)

A Brief Introduction for Christians

by Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012

A window into the Jewish idea of responsibility to care for the world— written especially for Christians. The concept of repairing the world (tikkun olam) is an integral part of Jewish life. It helps shape Jewish social and family relationships, and even mandates how Jews should speak to...

Jews and the American Religious Landscape

by Uzi Rebhun
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016

Jews and the American Religious Landscape explores major complementary facets of American Judaism and Jewish life through a comprehensive analysis of contemporary demographic and sociological data. Focusing on the most important aspects of social development—geographic location, socioeconomic stratification,...

Sometimes You Are What You Wear!

The Traditional Jewish View of Modesty

by Eliyahu Safran
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2007

Rabbi Safrans compelling book about the need to incorporate the traditional view of modesty if we are to save our children from the superficiality, the decadence and the damaging influences of our modern, progressive society, opens with a simple question, What can an Orthodox rabbi tell me about my...