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The tension between secular politics and religious fundamentalism is a problem shared by many modern states. This is certainly true of the State of Israel, where the religious-secular schism provokes conflict at every level of politics and society. Driving this schism...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-01-22
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The powerful coming-of-age story of an ultra-Orthodox child who was born to become a rabbinic leader and instead became a womanAbby Stein was raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, isolated in a culture that lives according to the laws and practices of...
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Seal Press
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2019-11-12
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Holy, holy, holy! The Lord of hosts! The fill of all the earth is His glory.
In these few ecstatic words, the prophet Isaiah captured the core of Jewish thinking about humanity, nature, and God. If the idea of holiness generally points toward God's transcendence,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-11-04
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In this timely study Gavin D'Costa explores Roman Catholic doctrines after the Second Vatican Council regarding the Jewish people (1965 - 2015). It establishes the emergence of the teaching that God's covenant with the Jewish people is irrevocable. What does this mean...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-10-10
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In this timely study Gavin D'Costa explores Roman Catholic doctrines after the Second Vatican Council regarding the Jewish people (1965 - 2015). It establishes the emergence of the teaching that God's covenant with the Jewish people is irrevocable. What does this mean...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-10-10
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It is commonly asserted that heresy is a Christian invention that emerged in late antiquity as Christianity distinguished itself from Judaism. Heresy, Forgery, Novelty probes ancient Jewish disputes regarding religious innovation and argues that Christianity's...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-09-02
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Your plain-English guide to Judaism Whether you're interested in the religion or the spirituality, the culture or the ethnic traditions, Judaism For Dummies explores the full spectrum of Judaism, dipping into the mystical, meditative, and spiritual depth of the faith...
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For Dummies
Parution :
2019-08-08
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Deutschsprachige Literatur jüdischer Autor*innen in Palästina/Israel galt lange als Schwanengesang der ‚deutsch-jüdischen Symbiose‘. Dieses Buch nimmt eine neue Perspektive ein, sieht sie als Teil des „Jewish literary complex“ (Dan Miron) und fragt nach ihrer Beziehung...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-07-11
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The biblical figure Melchizedek appears just twice in the Hebrew Bible, and once more in the Christian New Testament. Cited as both the king of Shalem-understood by most scholars to be Jerusalem-and as an eternal priest without ancestry, Melchizedek's appearances become...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-07-01
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Opening Israel's Scriptures is a collection of thirty-six essays on the Hebrew Bible, from Genesis to Chronicles, which gives powerful insight into the complexity and inexhaustibility of the Hebrew Scriptures as a theological resource. Based on more than two decades of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-06-03
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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,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-04-26
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In the decades between German unification and the demise of the Weimar Republic, German Jewry negotiated their collective and individual identity under the impression of legal emancipation, continued antisemitism, the emergence of Zionism and Socialism, the First World...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-04-15
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This volume contributes to the growing field of Early Modern Jewish Atlantic History, while stimulating new discussions at the interface between Jewish Studies and Postcolonial Studies. It is a collection of substantive, sophisticated and variegated essays, combining...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-09
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Winner of the Jewish Book Council Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award in Scholarship
This book explores the reception history of the most important Jewish Bible commentary ever composed, the Commentary on the Torah of Rashi (Shlomo Yitzhaki; 1040-1105). Though the Commentary...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-04-09
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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...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-02-04
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Who should count as Jewish in America? What should be the relationship of American Jews to Israel? Can the American Jewish community collectively sustain and pass on to the next generation a sufficient sense of Jewish identity? The situation of American Jews today is...
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PublicAffairs
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2018-11-27
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This book elaborates Jean Améry’s critique of philosophy and his discussion of some central philosophical themes in At the Mind’s Limits and his other writings. It shows how Améry elaborates the shortcomings and unfitness of philosophical theories to account for...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-27
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In the study of Judaism, the Zohar has captivated the minds of interpreters for over seven centuries, and continues to entrance readers in contemporary times. Yet despite these centuries of study, very little attention has been devoted to the literary dimensions of the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-11-22
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This book investigates a Jewish orientation to film culture in interwar Britain. It explores how pleasure, politics and communal solidarity intermingled in the cinemas of Jewish neighbourhoods, and how film was seen as a vessel through which Jewish communal...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-03
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This Oxford Handbook is a serious resource for the study of the literature of the Writings (Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Ruth, Esther, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles, Daniel) of the Hebrew Bible, including its context and its...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-10-16
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