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The Book of Jeremiah is one of the longest, most complex and influential writings in the Hebrew Bible. It comprises poetic oracles, prose sermons, and narratives of the prophet, as well as laments, symbolic actions, and utterances of hope from one of the most turbulent...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-10-12
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Covenant and the Jewish Conversion Question reevaluates conversion and Jewish identity through the lens of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s dual conception of the Covenants of Fate and Destiny. By studying an array of key rabbinic texts through this lens, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2021-09-24
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“The books of the Qabalah are fountains of living waters and at a time of great spiritual need, as the present is, the strength and consolation offered us through its teachings are doubly welcome.”_Elias GEWURZ. Elias Gewurz, a distinguished Polish-American Theosophist,...
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Alicia Éditions
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2021-05-24
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The Oxford Handbook of the Apocrypha addresses the Old Testament Apocrypha, known to be important early Jewish texts that have become deutero-canonical for some Christian churches, non-canonical for other churches, and that are of lasting cultural significance. In...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-05-11
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For many centuries Jews have been renowned for the efforts they put into their children's welfare and education. Eventually, prioritizing children became a modern Western norm, as reflected in an abundance of research in fields such as pediatric medicine, psychology,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-04-07
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Hebraism in Religion, History, and Politics is an investigation intoHebraism as a category of cultural analysis within the history of Christendom. Its aim is to determine whatHebraism means or should mean when it is used. The characteristics ofHebraism indicate a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-03-11
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Hebraism in Religion, History, and Politics is an investigation intoHebraism as a category of cultural analysis within the history of Christendom. Its aim is to determine whatHebraism means or should mean when it is used. The characteristics ofHebraism indicate a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-03-11
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When Near Becomes Far explores the representations and depictions of old age in the rabbinic Jewish literature of late antiquity (150-600 CE). Through close literary readings and cultural analysis, the book reveals the gaps and tensions between idealized images of old...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-03-09
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The Oxford Handbook of the Minor Prophets provides a clear and engaging one-volume guide to the major interpretative questions currently engaging scholars of the twelve Minor Prophets by collecting 40 essays by both established and emerging scholars who explore a wide...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-01-29
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The Bible is the most influential book in Western history. As the foundational text of Judaism and Christianity, the Bible has been interpreted and reinterpreted over millennia, utilized to promote a seemingly endless run of theological and political positions....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-11-06
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The Oxford Handbook of Historical Books of the Hebrew Bible is a collection of essays that provide resources for the interpretation of the books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah.The volume is not exhaustive in its coverage, but examines...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-11-02
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In the late eighteenth century, German Jews began entering the middle class with remarkable speed. That upward mobility, it has often been said, coincided with Jews' increasing alienation from religion and Jewish nationhood.In fact, Michah Gottlieb argues, this period...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-10-01
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This book presents an alternative reading of the respective works of Moses Maimonides and Baruch Spinoza. It argues that both thinkers are primarily concerned with the singular perfection of the complete human being rather than with attaining only rational knowledge....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-14
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Samuel Lebens takes the three principles of Jewish faith, as proposed by Rabbi Joseph Albo (1380-1444), in order to scrutinize and refine them with the toolkit of contemporary analytic philosophy. What could it mean for a perfect being to create a world from nothing?...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-06-30
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Samuel Lebens takes the three principles of Jewish faith, as proposed by Rabbi Joseph Albo (1380-1444), in order to scrutinize and refine them with the toolkit of contemporary analytic philosophy. What could it mean for a perfect being to create a world from nothing?...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-06-29
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The Talmud's Red Fence explores how rituals and beliefs concerning menstruation in the Babylonian Talmud and neighboring Sasanian religious texts were animated by difference and differentiation. It argues that the practice and development of menstrual rituals in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-06-16
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The Talmud's Red Fence explores how rituals and beliefs concerning menstruation in the Babylonian Talmud and neighboring Sasanian religious texts were animated by difference and differentiation. It argues that the practice and development of menstrual rituals in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-06-16
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This is the first major commentary in English on Pesher Habakkuk for forty years. It elucidates the nature of 1QpHab as the earliest commentary on the prophecy of Habakkuk by a detailed study of the biblical quotation and sectarian interpretation.This commentary...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-05-07
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This is the first major commentary in English on Pesher Habakkuk for forty years. It elucidates the nature of 1QpHab as the earliest commentary on the prophecy of Habakkuk by a detailed study of the biblical quotation and sectarian interpretation.This commentary...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-04-09
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Jewish culture places a great deal of emphasis on texts and their means of transmission. At various points inJewish history, the primary mode of transmission has changed in response to political, geographical, technological, and cultural shifts. Contemporary textual...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-02-27
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