Judaism category: 3160 books
Music and Religious Change among Progressive Jews in London
Being Liberal and Doing Traditional
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
This book analyses religion and change in relation to music within the context of contemporary progressive Judaism. It argues that music plays a central role as a driving force for religious change, comprising several elements seen as central to contemporary religiosity in general: participation,...
by Avi Sion
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Judaic logic: A Formal Analysis of Biblical, Talmudic and Rabbinic Logic is an original inquiry into the forms of thought determining Jewish law and belief, from the impartial perspective of a logician. Judaic Logic attempts to honestly estimate the extent to which the logic employed within Judaism...
Writing on the Wall
Graffiti and the Forgotten Jews of Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Few direct clues exist to the everyday lives and beliefs of ordinary Jews in antiquity. Prevailing perspectives on ancient Jewish life have been shaped largely by the voices of intellectual and social elites, preserved in the writings of Philo and Josephus and the rabbinic texts of the Mishnah and...
Hermeneutics of Holiness
Ancient Jewish and Christian Notions of Sexuality and Religious Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
In Hermeneutics of Holiness , Naomi Koltun-Fromm examines the ancient nexus of holiness and sexuality and explores its roots in the biblical texts as well as its manifestations throughout ancient and late-ancient Judaism and early Syriac Christianity. In the process, she tells the story of how the...
Who Is A Jew?
Conversations, Not Conclusions
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Sure to generate great controversy as it provides new insights, "Who Is a Jew?" courageously takes on this timely and controversial question. It provides the full range of perspectives necessary to let us draw our own conclusions. A seasoned journalist, Meryl Hyman weaves her own life experiences...
Still Jewish
A History of Women and Intermarriage in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Over the last century, American Jews married outside their religion at increasing rates. By closely examining the intersection of intermarriage and gender across the twentieth century, Keren R. McGinity describes the lives of Jewish women who intermarried while placing their decisions in historical...
by Mark Leuchter
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
At a glance, the Hebrew Bible presents the Levites as a group of ritual assistants and subordinates in Israel's cult. A closer look, however, reveals a far more complicated history behind the emergence of this group in Ancient Israel. A careful reconsideration of the sources provides new insights...
Beyond Survival
How Judaism Can Thrive in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
Beyond**Survival challenges the current agenda, assumptions, mind-set, and sacred cows of the Jewish establishment, which has largely accepted as a given and become resigned to its communal decline. Instead, Beyond**Survival offers an alternative vision for the Jewish future—a paradigm shift, one...
Jewish Woman Next Door
Repairing the World One Step at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
The women profiled in this collection of absorbing essays—some known throughout the world, others known only within their own communities—all share one key trait: whether religious or secular, they are driven by their commitment to Judaism to engage in acts of kindness. In profiling women such...
by Stuart Dauermann
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Stuart Dauermann, (PhD, Intercultural Studies), is an Interfaith Futurist who explores the nature and boundaries of the synergistic relationship between Judaism and Christianity. He is Director of Interfaithfulness, of which The Jewish Advantage is one initiative. This project provides a proven solution...
by Marie Fortune, Joretta Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Explore what forgiveness means in the context of sexual and domestic abuse!
Using research, studies, stories, and prayer, Forgiveness and Abuse: Jewish and Christian Reflections focuses on the views and opinions of these two prominent religions as well as shares the wisdom of their traditional...
The Jewish Book of Grief and Healing
A Spiritual Companion for Mourning
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
This companion in sorrow offers compassionate guidance for putting the insights of Judaism into practice and finding new strength in ancient traditions. Beloved and respected spiritual leaders from across the Jewish denominational spectrum share insights from their experience, Jewish tradition and their personal encounters with grief and healing.
Purity, Sacrifice, and the Temple
Symbolism and Supersessionism in the Study of Ancient Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005
Ancient Jewish sacrifice has long been misunderstood. Some find in sacrifice the key to the mysterious and violent origins of human culture. Others see these cultic rituals as merely the fossilized vestiges of primitive superstition. Some believe that ancient Jewish sacrifice was doomed from the start,...
Repentace at Qumran
The Penitential Framework of Religious Experience in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Mark A. Jason offers a detailed investigation of the place of repentance in the Dead Sea Scrolls, addressing a significant lacuna in Qumran scholarship. Normally, when the belief system of the community is examined, “repentance” is usually taken for granted or relegated to a peripheral position....