Sacred Writings category: 300 books
by Mary Barton Nees
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
“ ‘Where does someone go to hear from God in this place?’
The bookseller stared blankly back at me.
So, I revised my question: ‘If I came in here troubled about what’s happening, and wanted to know how to be okay with God, where would you direct me?’
The clerk led me back to a corner where...
by Dr. Rabbi Israel Drazin
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
This second volume of the Unusual Bible Interpretations series offers a thought-provoking exploration of the book of Joshua. Noted Bible scholar Dr. Israel Drazin asks the question: What does the book of Joshua actually tell us about the Israelites and their leader Joshua? With common sense close...
La Bible Hébraïque
La Torah - Les Livres prophétiques - Les autres Écrits
Language: French
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Edition Complète de " La Bible Hébraïque - Zadoc Kahn ", entièrement relu, revu et corrigé avec mise en page étudiée et table des Matières pour navigation aisée. La Bible du Rabbinat est une traduction du Tanakh, de l'hébreu en français, publiée en 1899 (Pentateuque et premiers...
by Steven Pruzansky
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
In its accounts of victories and defeats, conquests and liberation, the sordid tales of spiritual corruption, and the relentless struggle to maintain a Jewish state in the face of implacable enemies, the Book of Shoftim reads like today's headlines.
In the sixty years of modern Jewish statehood,...
by Ayelet Hoffmann Libson
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
This book examines the emergence of self-knowledge as a determining legal consideration among the rabbis of Late Antiquity, from the third to the seventh centuries CE. Based on close readings of rabbinic texts from Palestine and Babylonia, Ayelet Hoffmann Libson highlights a unique and surprising...
by Maurice Harris
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Chapters cover: Talmud, Midrashim, Kabbala, Rabinical Ana, Proverbial Saying and Traditions, and Fasts and Festivals. The Introduction begins: "AMONG the absurd notions as to what the Talmud was, given credence in the Middle Ages, one was that it was a man! The medieval priest or peasant was...
by Brian R. Doak
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2019
Authors from the ancient world rarely used great detail to describe the physical features of characters in their works. When they did mention bodies, they did so with very specific goals in mind. In particular, the bodies of "heroic" figures, such as warriors, kings, and other leaders became loaded...
Se così si può dire...
Variazioni sull’ebraismo vivente. Prefazione del card. Carlo Maria Martini. A cura di Fabio Ballabio e Gioachino Pistone
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 2, 2014
«Se così si può dire» è la traduzione più fedele dell'espressione ebraica kivjaqôl, che indica il paradosso per cui alla Torah è richiesto di esprimere qualcosa su Dio con il linguaggio umano, inevitabilmente inadeguato. L'espressione, con tutto ciò che ne consegue, oggi è familiare a molte...
I Cristiani e le Scritture di Israele
A cura di Brunetto Salvarani
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Riflettere sulle Scritture ebraiche è importante, anche nella prospettiva del dialogo, per più di un motivo. La nascente comunità cristiana, sin dai suoi inizi, decise di farle proprie, adottando a criterio interpretativo fondamentale la messianicità di Gesù. Inoltre il Primo Testamento è per...
Die Tora nach der Übersetzung von Moses Mendelssohn
und die Haftarot nach Simon Bernfeld, Joel Brill, A. Benesch, Schlomo Salman Lipman, Wolff Meir und Josef Weiss
Language: German
Release Date: May 25, 2015
Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) schuf die erste juedische Uebersetzung der Tora ins Hochdeutsche. Diese Uebersetzung wurde 2015 behutsam für das 21. Jahrhundert revidiert und um die synagogalen Prophetenlesungen ergaenzt. Die Textgestaltung enthaelt die traditionelle jüdische Abschnittsunterteilung und andere für den liturgischen Gebrauch wichtige Elemente.
Les secrets du Kadich
Lois et coutumes
Language: French
Release Date: September 21, 2014
Aperçu des enseignements de nos Sages sur l’importance de la récitation du Kadich, ses lois et leurs sources. Traduction et transcription phonétique du Kadich
Rewriting Masculinity
Gideon, Men, and Might
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2019
Who is the biblical Gideon? A mighty warrior, or a fearful son? Hesitant solider, clever tactician, commanding father, ruthless killer, idolater, or illegitimate king? Gideon has long challenged readers of the book of Judges. How did so many conflicting portraits become inscribed in our biblical text...
by Prof. M.M. Ninan
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2018
Sefer Reziel is the first book of humanity as written by the first hman Adam. When he was ousted from the Garden of Eden, God sent Angel Raziel to tutor him of the science of living outside of Eden without the evening walk with YHVH himself. . It is the secret book of that aspect of jewish mysticism...
Abramo e l’educazione divina
Lettura narrativa e antropologica della Genesi. II. Gen 11,27–25,18
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 27, 2017
La tradizione ebraica presenta la storia di Abramo come una serie di dieci prove divine che gli consentono di apprendere l'obbedienza e di diventare un uomo di fede. Questo disegno, che non emerge direttamente dal testo della Genesi, ma prende forma nel midrash, indica un elemento fondamentale della...