Sacred Writings category: 300 books
The Everything Torah Book
All You Need To Understand The Basics Of Jewish Law And The Five Books Of The Old Testament
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
From the Penteteuch and Nevi'im to the Ketuvim and the oral Torah, this straightforward reference walks you through God's instructions to His people and explains how these teachings are incorporated into Jewish life. The Everything Torah Book presents the tenets of the Jewish faith in an easy-to-understand...
Daily Kabbalah
Wisdom from the Tree of Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
From sorcery to animal totems, buzzard feathers to hawk spirits, talking trees to magical stones, sacred circles to healing rituals, the Kabbalah brings readers a rich body of ancient wisdom that has been long neglected and even longer misunderstood. The Kabbalah celebrates a quality of consciousness...
Which Lilith?
Feminist Writers Re-Create the World's First Woman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
Eve was not Adam's first wife. That honor belongs to Lilith, who was created as Adam's equal. When he tried to dominate her, she uttered God's secret name and flew away. Lilith is mentioned in the Talmud, elaborated on in the midrash and in the kabbalah, whispered about in stories, and passed down...
by Shaiya Rothberg
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
While religion is sometimes the enemy of human dignity, it can also be a powerful force for its protection. When John Woolman, an American Quaker born in 1720, began preaching that faithfulness to God requires abolishing slavery, he ignited a religious passion that helped facilitate the global paradigm...
Absorbing Perfections
Kabbalah and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In this wide-ranging discussion of Kabbalah—from the mystical trends of medieval Judaism to modern Hasidism—one of the world’s foremost scholars considers different visions of the nature of the sacred text and of the methods to interpret it. Moshe Idel takes as a starting point the fact that the...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1996
The quotations contained in this monumental volume consist of aphorisms, maxims, proverbs, and comments of Jewish authorship or on Jewish themes. Here is a rich treasury compiled from over 2,500 years of Jewish writings–from the Talmud, the Mishnah, the Zohar, and the Bible, through excerpts from...
by Simon Abram
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Writings -- Chronicles, Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Ruth, Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes, Lamentations, Esther, Daniel, Ezra - Nehemiah
The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude:What Earliest Christianity Learned from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
What Earliest Christianity Learned from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Jews have sometimes been reluctant to claim Jesus as one of their own; Christians have often been reluctant to acknowledge the degree to which Jesus' message and mission were at home amidst, and shaped by, the Judaism(s) of the Second Temple Period. In The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude...
by Louis Ginzberg
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
The Legends of the Jews ( Volume IV: From Joshua to Esther)
Louis Ginzberg was born in Kovno, Lithuania on November 28, 1873, to a family of rabbinic scholars which had once included well-known Lithuanian intellectual Rabbi Elijah Gaon. By age 14, he had memorized the Bible, and had a vast...
by Ronald L. Eisenberg
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Despite the fact that scholars of the post-Talmudic era have been of great importance to the continued interpretation of religious texts for more than a millennium, they are typically not given as much attention as their Talmudic-era predecessors. Essential Figures in Jewish Scholarship compiles thorough...
Torah Queeries
Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
In the Jewish tradition, reading of the Torah follows a calendar cycle, with a specific portion assigned each week. These weekly portions, read aloud in synagogues around the world, have been subject to interpretation and commentary for centuries. Following on this ancient tradition, Torah Queeries...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
At the origin of the Watchers tradition is the single enigmatic reference in Genesis 6 to the "sons of God" who had intercourse with human women, producing a race of giants upon the earth. That verse sparked an explosion of cosmological and theological speculation in early Judaism. Here...
The Written and Oral Torah
A Comprehensive Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 1998
In The Written and Oral Torah: A Comprehensive Introduction, Rabbi Nathan T. Lopes Cardozo offers those interested in Jewish tradition an explanation of and basic insight into Judaism's classical sources. Containing a diverse selection of material culled from the Talmud and from the writings of many...
by T. W. Rhys Davids
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Buddhist Suttas
by T. W. Rhys Davids
These seven scriptural writings are considered to be the most important and oldest of the Buddhist religion. Originally written in the Pali language, they date to the fourth and third centuries BC. This early date is what makes them so important —they...