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Millions of American Christians see U.S. support for the State of Israel as a God-ordained responsibility. American sympathies for the State of Israel are consistently and often substantially higher than for Arab states or Palestinians. More Desired than Our Owne...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-06-06
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The main aim of this work is to understand Jesus as he saw himself, and to compare that self-understanding with the ways in which others have grasped the nature of his mission.
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-05-28
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Natan Sznaider offers a highly original account of Jewish memory and politics before and after the Holocaust. It seeks to recover an aspect of Jewish identity that has been almost completely lost today - namely, that throughout much of their history Jews were both a...
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Polity
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2013-04-17
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Narratives and Jewish Bioethics searches for answers to the critical question of what roles ancient narratives play in creating modern norms by Jewish bioethicists utilizing the Jewish textual tradition.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-03-19
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The Jewish religion is one of the major faiths of the world yet one of the least understood. In a wide-ranging and accessible guide for the general reader Rabbi Naftali Brawer outlines the major themes and history of over 5,000 years of Jewish faith from its Abrahamic...
Editeur :
Robinson
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2013-02-07
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Brief Histories
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Though considered one of the most important informants about Judaism in the first century CE, the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus's testimony is often overlooked or downplayed. Jonathan Klawans's Josephus and the Theologies of Ancient Judaism reexamines Josephus's...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-01-10
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For thousands of years the Jewish tradition has been a source of moral guidance, for Jews and non-Jews alike. As the essays in this volume show, the theologians and practitioners of Judaism have a long history of wrestling with moral questions, responding to them in an...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-12-21
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One of the most vexing problems facing medieval Jewish interpreters of the Hebrew Bible was how to implement the new interpretive strategy of extracting the straightforward, contextual meaning of biblical verses (peshat), without neglecting revered ancient rabbinic...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-11-20
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In a groundbreaking book, Neta Stahl examines the attitudes adopted by modern Jewish writers toward the figure of Jesus. Stahl argues that twentieth-century Jewish writers reconsidered Jesus' traditional status as the Christian Other and looked to him instead as a...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-11-14
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This engaging argument for the future of Jewish theology, written by a renowned Jewish scholar, provides a rounded introduction to the faith, its history, and its place in the modern world. Explores foundational Jewish structures and concepts through the discussion...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-10-25
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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Taking a unique, multi-faceted approach to the 1,000 years of Polish Jewish history in this volume, Gary S. Schiff combines academic scholarship with his own family’s long history and his insightful travel experiences and candid observations. From its earliest medieval...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-09-06
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The differing beliefs that emerged between Christianity and Judaism, especially in the first two centuries AD, were mainly caused by the introduction of heavenly beings in the Jewish religion. This resulted in the predominance of a messiah, who will be sent by God as...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-19
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Anhand der Geburt Jesu durch die Jungfrau Maria werden die in der Zeitenwende in Palästina vorhandenen Geisteshaltungen dargestellt und die in den letzten vorchristlichen Jahrhunderten aufgetretenen deuteronomistischen, weisheitlichen, apokalyptischen und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-19
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Conventionally, the history of the rabbinic movement has been told as a distinctly intra-Jewish development, a response to the gaping need left by the tragic destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE. In Rabbis as Romans, Hayim Lapin reconfigures that history by...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-07-02
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Holy war, sanctioned or even commanded by God, is a common and recurring theme in the Hebrew Bible. Rabbinic Judaism, however, largely avoided discussion of holy war in the Talmud and related literatures for the simple reason that it became dangerous and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-07-02
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This book examines Christian ethnographic writing about the Jews in early modern Europe, offering a systematic historical analysis of this literary genre and arguing its importance for understanding both the period in general and Jewish-Christian relations in...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-07-02
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Winner of Honorable Mention in the Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards of the Association for Jewish Studies
Moshe Simon-Shoshan offers a groundbreaking study of Jewish law (halakhah) and rabbinic story-telling. Focusing on the Mishnah, the foundational text of halakhah, he...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-04-01
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The Wiley-Blackwell History of Jews and Judaism presents a panoramic and comprehensive overview of the major aspects of Jewish life and culture, from the biblical period through to contemporary times. A collection of outstanding contributions from leading experts...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-03-12
Collection :
The Wiley-Blackwell Histories of Religion
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Provides the first extensive collection of traditional and academic Jewish approaches to the religions of the world, focusing on those Jewish thinkers that actually encounter the other world religions -that is, it moves beyond the theory of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-02-14
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