Judaism category: 3160 books
Who Gave You Permission?
the memoir of a child sexual-abuse survivor who fought back
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
‘Who gave you permission to speak to anybody?’ Rabbi Telsner, the leader of the Yeshivah Centre, thundered during his regular weekly sermon. It was a question directed to Manny Waks’s father, after Manny had finally gone public with his accusations of sexual abuse and its cover-up within the...
Paul Was Not a Christian
The Original Message of a Misunderstood Apostle
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
Pamela Eisenbaum, an expert on early Christianity, reveals the true nature of the historical Paul in Paul Was Not a Christian. She explores the idea of Paul not as the founder of a new Christian religion, but as a devout Jew who believed Jesus was the Christ who would unite Jews and Gentiles and fulfill...
by Daniel Boyarin
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
“[A] fascinating recasting of the story of Jesus.” —Elliot Wolfson, New York University
In July 2008, a front-page story in the New York Times reported on the discovery of an ancient Hebrew tablet, dating from before the birth of Jesus, which predicted a Messiah who would rise from the...
by Gordon Clouser
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Who was Jesus? An apocalyptic prophet? An aphoristic sage? The messiah of Jewish expectations? In Jesus, Joshua, Yeshua of Nazareth, Gordon Clouser analyzes the question of the historical Jesus and argues that the realities of Jesus ministry place him squarely in the forefront of Jewish messianic...
Bewilderments
Reflections on the Book of Numbers
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
The newest book in Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg’s award-winning series of commentaries on the hebrew bible.
The book of Numbers is the narrative of a great failure. What should have been for the Israelites a brief journey from Mount Sinai to the Holy Land becomes a forty-year death march. Both...
Hineini in Our Lives
Learning How to Respond to Others through 14 Biblical Texts & Personal Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
One simple, powerful word—hineini—contains the key to deepening your relationship with God and with others.
Hineini (Here I am!). This single spoken word appears only fourteen times in the Bible–each time in a memorable and meaningful story: Abraham offering Isaac as a sacrifice to God,...
by David Arnow
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
A guide to help you invigorate your Seder, create lively discussions, and make personal connections with the Exodus story today.For many people, the act of simply reading the Haggadah no longer fulfills the Passover Seders purpose: to help you feel as if you personally had gone out of Egypt. Too often,...
by Rabbi Arthur O. Waskow, Rabbi Phyllis O. Berman
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
How does the story of the Exodus echo in our own generation and in our own lives?For us to hear the Oneness of God, we must grow into a place where the cosmic and the political are deeply the same truth.from Part VThe story Jews retell on Passover is about rising up against tyranny, about the triumph...
The Irrevocable Calling
Israel's Role as a Light to the Nations
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Shows how the Jewish people are still the chosen people and continue to be called to bring blessing to the world today.
Sinning in the Hebrew Bible
How the Worst Stories Speak for Its Truth
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Stories of rape, murder, adultery, and conquest raise crucial issues in the Hebrew Bible, and their interpretation helps societies form their religious and moral beliefs. From the sacrifice of Isaac to the adultery of David, narratives of sin engender vivid analysis and debate, powering the myths...
Israel, the Church, and the Middle East
A Biblical Response to the Current Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
The relationship between the church and Israel has been the source of passionate debate among Christians throughout much of church history. In recent years the traditional pro-Israel stance of evangelicals has come under fire by those who support the Palestinian cause, calling for a new perspective...
Path of the Prophets
The Ethics-Driven Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Illuminating the ethical legacy of the biblical prophets, Path of the Prophets identifies the prophetic moment in the lives of eighteen biblical figures and demonstrates their compelling relevance to us today.
While the Bible almost exclusively names men as prophets, Rabbi Barry L. Schwartz...
by Jason Shulman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
What would it feel like if you realized that from the very beginning, you were designed to look for, to find, and to receive God? That you were designed to awaken to reality? How would it feel to know that this would definitely happen in your lifetime, because you were made to accomplish this very...
What Every Christian Needs to Know About the Jewishness of Jesus
A New Way of Seeing the Most Influential Rabbi in History
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
If you were to ask ten people, Who started Christianity? you might hear ten voices giving the same quick response: Jesus. But those ten people would be wrong. Jesus wasn’t a Christian. Jesus lived and died as a Jew. Understanding the Jewishness of Jesus is the secret to knowing him better and understanding...