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At age 30 Evan Moffic became the leader of a large congregation. He had great success. But he couldn't find happiness. Then he found a 2000-year-old prayer. In it were hidden elements of Jewish wisdom. They became a part of his life and those of his congregation and...
Editeur :
Center Street
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2017-09-12
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Ever since the state of Israel was established in 1948, it has been plagued by war, and that has presented religious Zionists with an immense challenge. Jewish law prior to 1948 includes little material on war because it developed during centuries when Jews had neither...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-09-01
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Scripture is replete with narratives that challenge a variety of philosophical concepts; including morality, divine benevolence, and human freedom. Free choice, a significant and much debated concept in medieval philosophy, continues to be of great interest to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-08-07
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This book explores Queen Esther as an idealized woman in Iberia, as well as a Jewish heroine for conversos in the Sephardic Diaspora in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The biblical Esther --the Jewish woman who marries the King of Persia and saves her people --...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-07-13
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Dieser Band versammelt verschiedene hebräische Kommentarfassungen zum Buch Rut, die dem Exegeten Josef Kara im 11. und 12. Jahrhundert in Nordfrankreich zugeschrieben werden können. Diese Kommentare sind textkritisch ediert, ins Deutsche übersetzt und detailreich...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-02-10
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Kingship and Memory in Ancient Judah addresses the question of how a postmonarchic society would remember and imagine its monarchy, and kingship in general, as part of its past, present, and future. How did Judeans of the early Second Temple period conceive of the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-12-01
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This book aims to construct a contemporary Jewish philosophy that accounts for virtue ethics or, rather, to give Jewish virtue ethics a contemporary language for its expression. Ira Bedzow draws significantly on the work of Moses Maimonides and his religio-philosophical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-26
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This volume is the first English-language anthology to engage with the fascinating phenomena of recent surges in New Age and alternative spiritualties in Israel. Contributors investigate how these New Age religions and other spiritualties—produced in Western countries...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-09
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This book offers a novel approach for the study of law in the Judean Desert Scrolls, using the prism of legal theory. Following a couple of decades of scholarly consensus withdrawing from the "Essene hypothesis," it proposes to revive the term, and suggests employing it...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-10-28
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Volume XXIX of Studies in Contemporary Jewry takes its title from a joke by Groucho Marx: "I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member." The line encapsulates one of the most important characteristics of Jewish humor: the desire to buffer oneself...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-10-05
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Printed editions of midrashim, rabbinic expositions of the Bible, flooded the market for Hebrew books in the sixteenth century. First published by Iberian immigrants to the Ottoman Empire, they were later reprinted in large numbers at the famous Hebrew presses of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-09-08
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Printed editions of midrashim, rabbinic expositions of the Bible, flooded the market for Hebrew books in the sixteenth century. First published by Iberian immigrants to the Ottoman Empire, they were later reprinted in large numbers at the famous Hebrew presses of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-09-08
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120 jüdische Autoren deutscher Sprache im Porträt. Börne, Heine, Buber, Zweig, Canetti, Celan, Becker und Klüger und viele andere haben die Literatur nachhaltig geprägt. Wer sich mit ihrem Leben und Werk auseinandersetzt, sollte das Taschenlexikon unbedingt zur Hand...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-09-02
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This book develops a new philosophy of Israel education. “Person-centered” Israel education is concerned with developing in individual learners the ability to understand and make rational, emotional, and ethical decisions about Israel, and about the challenges Israel...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-20
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The thirteenth-century Jewish mystical classic Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Splendor), commonly known as the Zohar, took shape against a backdrop of rising anti-Judaism in Spain. Mystical Resistance reveals that in addition to the Zohar's role as a theological...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-07-01
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Winner of the 2017 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise
Winner of the 2017 The George A. and Jean S. DeLong Book History Book Prize
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls revealed a world of early Jewish writing larger than the Bible, from multiple...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-04-29
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At the center of this book lies a fundamental yet unanswered question: under which historical and sociological conditions and in what manner the Hebrew Bible became an authoritative tradition, that is, holy scripture and the canon of Judaism as well as Christianity....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-12-17
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At the center of this book lies a fundamental yet unanswered question: under which historical and sociological conditions and in what manner the Hebrew Bible became an authoritative tradition, that is, holy scripture and the canon of Judaism as well as Christianity....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-12-17
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Food is not just a physical necessity but also a composite commodity. It is part of a communication system, a nonverbal medium for expression, and a marker of special events. Bringing together contributions from fourteen historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-12-01
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