Judaism category: 3160 books
A New Oracle of Kabbalah
Mystical Teachings of the Hebrew Letters
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
The Hebrew word for letter,” - ot - also means sign” or wonder” or miracle.” For thousands of years, Jewish sages have taught that the letters of the Hebrew alphabet embody miraculous powers.
According to the earliest known book on Jewish mysticism, The Sefer Yetzirah (The Book...
by Louis Asare
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
During its long history, Jerusalem has been attacked 52 times, captured and recaptured 44 times, besieged 23 times, and destroyed twice. The oldest part of the city was settled in the 4th millennium BCE, making Jerusalem one of the oldest cities in the world.
Given the city's central position...
by Dr Willem F. Smelik
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Exposed to multiple languages as a result of annexation, migration, pilgrimage and its position on key trade routes, the Roman Palestine of Late Antiquity was a border area where Aramaic, Greek, Hebrew and Arabic dialects were all in common use. This study analyses the way scriptural translation was...
Rabbi Moses
A Documentary Catalogue
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book is an exercise in the systematic recourse to anachronism as a theological-exegetical mode of apologetics. Specifically, Neusner demonstrates the capacity of the Rabbinic sages to read ideas attested in their own day as authoritative testaments to — to them — ancient times. Thus, Scripture...
Narrative and Document in the Rabbinic Canon
From the Mishnah to the Talmuds
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
Narrative and Document in the Rabbinic Canon, Volume I is a study of the inclusion of biographical narratives about sages in components of the unfolding canon of Rabbinic Judaism in the formative age. These documents are of the first six centuries C.E. and are exclusive of the two Talmuds. A sage...
Rabbi David
A Documentary Catalogue
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Rabbinic documents of David, progenitor of the Messiah, carry forward the scriptural narrative of David the king. But he also is turned by Rabbinic writings of late antiquity—from the Mishnah through the Yerushalmi and the Bavli—into a sage. Consequently, the Rabbis’ Messiah is a rabbi. How...
Our Immoral Soul
A Manifesto of Spiritual Disobedience
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Rabbi Bonder turns a few conventional ideas on their heads as he identifies the forces at play in individual, social, and spiritual transformation. Many people believe that obedience to the established moral order leads to the well-being of society as well as the salvation of their souls. On the contrary,...
Human Nature & Jewish Thought
Judaism's Case for Why Persons Matter
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
This book explores one of the great questions of our time: How can we preserve our sense of what it means to be a person while at the same time accepting what science tells us to be true—namely, that human nature is continuous with the rest of nature? What, in other words, does it mean to be a person...
A Plausible God
Secular Reflections on Liberal Jewish Theology
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
At least since the seventeenth century, the traditional God of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam has been under pressure to conform to the scientific worldview. Across the monotheistic traditions there has emerged a “liberal” conception of God compatible with a thoroughgoing naturalism. For many,...
Time in the Babylonian Talmud
Natural and Imagined Times in Jewish Law and Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
In this book, Lynn Kaye examines how rabbis of late antiquity thought about time through their legal reasoning and storytelling, and what these insights mean for thinking about time today. Providing close readings of legal and narrative texts in the Babylonian Talmud, she compares temporal ideas with...
Jewish Meaning in a World of Choice
Studies in Tradition and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Internationally recognized scholar David Ellenson shares twenty-three of his most representative essays, drawing on three decades of scholarship and demonstrating the consistency of the intellectual-religious interests that have animated him throughout his lifetime.
These essays center...
by Judith Z. Abrams
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
In A Beginner's Guide to The Steinsaltz Talmud, Rabbi Judith Z. Abrams selects a fascinating and provocative section from the Talmud and helps students to reap the vast rewards that can be achieved when one encounters Rabbi Steinsaltz's historic, ground-breaking work.
With the publication of The Talmud:...
Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe
A Shared Story?
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
This is the first book to examine the relationship between European antisemitism and Islamophobia from the Crusades until the twenty-first century in the principal flashpoints of the two racisms. With case studies ranging from the Balkans to the UK, the contributors take the debate away from politicised...
What Every Christian Needs to Know About Passover
What It Means and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
The Passover was celebrated by Jesus and the disciples the last time they were together. Now popular speaker and writer Rabbi Evan Moffic brings an understanding to the Last Supper that will forever change how Christians celebrate Communion and prepare for Easter. Beginning with the Hebrew Bible and...