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Volume XVI in this well-received annual series contains an up-to-date survey of gender issues in modern Judaism. It includes original essays on Orthodox Judaism and feminism, American Jewish women, female rabbis, the impact of feminism on rabbinic study, masculinity,...
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Oxford University Press
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2001-02-08
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This book examines the ways in which two distinct biblical conceptions of impurity-"ritual" and "moral"-were interpreted in the Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, rabbinic literature, and the New Testament. In examining the evolution of ancient Jewish attitudes towards...
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Oxford University Press
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2000-11-16
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In this urgent book, Alan M. Dershowitz shows why American Jews are in danger of disappearing - and what must be done now to create a renewed sense of Jewish identity for the next century.In previous times, the threats to Jewish survival were external - the virulent...
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Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2000-01-06
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Throughout history, the persecutions of the Jewish people have been central to their identity and to the cohesion of their religion and cultural heritage. But now, with the success of the Jewish State of Israel and the prosperity of Jews in the United States, the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1999-06-24
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Part of The Complete Idiot's Guides® popular religion and history titles. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Jewish History and Culture contains information about Jews in early American history through the 19th century as well as coverage of Jewish history and culture in the...
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Dk
Parution :
1998-12-01
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The Rabbis of the first five centuries of the Common Era loom large in the Jewish tradition. Until the modern period, Jews viewed the Rabbinic traditions as the authoritative contents of their covenant with God, and scholars debated the meanings of these ancient Sages...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1998-10-15
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This is the sequel to the author's iconoclastic Toward a Grammar of Biblical Poetics (Oxford, 1992), in which Brichto argues for the aesthetic wholeness of the Hebrew Bible, and the consistency of Scripture's preachment on God, nature, and the human condition--in direct...
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Oxford University Press
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1998-04-09
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Reimagining the Bible collects a dozen essays by Howard Schwartz. Together the essays present a coherent theory of the way in which each successive phase of Jewish literature has drawn upon and reimagined the previous ones. The book is organized into four sections: The...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1998-01-15
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In this book, Hayes addresses the central concern in talmudic studies over the genesis of halakhic (legal) divergence between the Talmuds produced by the Palestinian rabbinic community (c. 370 C.E.) and the Babylonian rabbinic community (c. 650 C.E.). Hayes analyzes...
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Oxford University Press
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1997-04-24
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Traditionally, the Talmud was read as law, that is, as the authoritative source for Jewish practice and obligations. To this end, it was studied at the level of its most minute details, with readers often ignoring the composite whole and attending only to final...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1996-08-15
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The existence of suffering poses an obvious problem for the monotheistic religions. Why does an all-powerful, benevolent God allow humans to suffer? And given that God does, what is the appropriate human response? In modern times Jewish theologians in particular, faced...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1994-09-29
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Many studies written about the Jewish-Christian relationship are primarily historical overviews that focus on the Jewish background of Christianity, the separation of Christianity from Judaism, or the medieval disputations between the two faiths. This book is one of the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1992-04-02
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The first part of this illustrated volume offers a survey of Jewish history and literature.The second part presents what the preface describes as "a thematic analysis of the teachings and practice of Judaism"....
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Penguin
Parution :
1992-03-26
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This critical study traces the development of the literary forms and conventions of the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, analyzing those forms as expressions of emergent rabbinic ideology. The Bavli, which evolved between the third and sixth centuries in Sasanian Iran...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1990-12-06
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This revisionist reading of early anti-Judaism offers a richer and more varied picture of the Jews and Christians of antiquity.
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1985-02-14
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This revisionist reading of early anti-Judaism offers a richer and more varied picture of the Jews and Christians of antiquity.
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1985-02-14
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The Kabbalah Unveiled. Illustrated by S. L. MacGregor Mathers is a groundbreaking exploration of the mystical and esoteric teachings of the Kabbalah, one of the most profound spiritual traditions in human history. This work presents English translations of key sections...
Editeur :
Andrii Ponomarenko
Parution :
2025-05-27
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The Qabalah is one of the great foundations of Western esoteric and spiritual thought. It is an important tool in learning to use the intuition to explore the archetypal realms of divine life.The Mystical Qabalah is widely recognized as the most practical and...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2024-05-22
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Neither in Dark Speeches nor in Similitudes is an interdisciplinary collaboration of Canadian and American Jewish studies scholars who compare and contrast the experience of Jews along the chronological spectrum (ca. 1763 to the present) in their respective countries....
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2016-12-08
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These essays represent a multidisciplinary approach to the study of religion and, especially, Judaism.
Setting aside common scholarly concerns with source criticism and history of interpretation, Shimon Levy argues that in Numbers 11 the redactor has forged diverse...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2006-01-01
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SR Supplements
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