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Bloomsbury USA 3pl Fountains of Wisdom
Book SynopsisGerbern S. Oegema is Professor of Biblical Studies at McGill University, Canada. Henry W. Morisada Rietz is Professor of Religious Studies at Grinnell College, USA. Loren T. Stuckenbruck is Professor of New Testament at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany.Trade ReviewThe essays [the contributors] have produced to honor their teacher and colleague are a smorgasbord of scholarly delights. This book belongs in every theological library. Its essays will be valued by both beginning and experienced biblical scholars, and it is a fitting tribute to someone who exemplifies the best in biblical scholarship. * The Bible Today *Framed as a letter from the editors to the honoree, Fountains of Wisdom exhibits the kind of academic exchange and dialogue that characterizes Professor Charlesworth’s career. Each essay engages some aspect of his monumental and wide-ranging contributions to the fields of Hebrew Bible and New Testament, Greco-Roman and Jewish world, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, Dead Sea Scrolls, and more. As a Festscrhift this is a fitting tribute to a scholar whose four decades of work have shaped much of the conversation within these disciplines. As a collection of essays it contains important contributions by an international group of thirty-four talented women and men speaking to essential topics with a wide breadth of scholarly inquiry. * Daniel M. Gurtner, Centre for the Study of Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity, St Mary's University, UK *It is a pleasure to commend this volume in which a formidable line up of writers have produced essays on various aspects of Second Temple Judaism, in conversation with and in honor of James Charlesworth, who has made such major, fundamental contributions to the field. * James Claire VanderKam, University of Notre Dame, USA *Table of ContentsPreface A Selection of Major Works by James H. Charlesworth Contributors I. Hebrew Bible and New Testament 1. The Interpretation of Genesis 4:10 in Early Jewish Literature - John R. Levinson, SMU Perkins School of Theology, USA 2. Abraham et l’abrahamisme: Mythe ou réalité? - Simon C. Mimouni, École Pratique des Hautes Études, France 3. Hebrews, the Aqedah, and Early Scriptural Interpretation - C.D. Elledge, Gustavus Adolphus College, USA 4. The Etymology of Belial Once Again: A Case of Tabooistic Deformation? - Brent A. Strawn, Duke Divinity School, USA 5. Just What We Need: Another Allusion in Luke 1? - John B.F. Miller, McMurry University, USA 6. Repentance and Turning as a Unified Motif in Luke-Acts - Kindalee Pfremmer De Long, Pepperdine University, USA 7. Do Mark 16:9-20 and John 7:53-8:11 Belong in Our Bibles? A Case Study in the Intersection of Textual Criticism and Canonical Considerations - Loren L. Johns, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, USA 8. Reconsidering the Poor: A Fresh Translation of Matthew 5:3 - Johan Ferreira, Melbourne School of Theology, Australia 9. Christology in John’s Crucifixion Quotations - Michael A. Daise, College of William & Mary, USA 10. Touching the Risen Jesus: Did Jesus Allow Thomas to Do What He Refused to Mary? - Lidija Novakovic, Baylor University, USA 11. Who Is My Brother? Study of the Term adelfós in the Acts of the Apostles - Claire Pfann, University of the Holy Land, Israel 12. How Much of Israel will be saved—a Remnant or all of Israel? A fresh look at Romans 9-11 - Stephen J. Pfann, University of the Holy Land, Israel 13. Jesus Tradition, Christian Creeds, and the New Testament Canon - Lee Martin McDonald, Acadia Divinity College, Canada II. Greco-Roman and Jewish World 14. When Ontology Meets Eschatology: A Platonized Reading of Deuteronomy 28:1-14 - Gregory E. Sterling, Yale Divinity School, USA 15. On John the Baptist at the Jordan River: Geohistorical and Archaeological Considerations - Shimon Gibson, UNC Charlotte, USA 16. Greco-Roman and Jewish Historiography as Backdrop for the Gospels - Darrell L. Bock, Dallas Theological Seminary, USA 17. From, To, In, and Through Caesarea: Herod’s Imperial City as Significant Narrative Setting and Literary Linking Device in the Acts of the Apostles - Jonathan E. Soyars, Westminster College, Cambridge, UK 18. Metatron and Naar: Combining Titles and Rev 3:21 as a Probable Riddle-Solver - Konstantinos Th. Zarras, University of Macedonia, Macedonia 19. Some Considerations on Ethics in Early Jewish Theologies and the New Testament - Gerbern S. Oegema, McGill University, Canada III. Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha 20. The Pseudepigrapha and Second Temple Judaism - John J. Collins, Yale Divinity School, USA 21. Enoch’s Prayer for Rescue from the Flood: 1 Enoch 83-84, with a New Translation and Notes - Loren T. Stuckenbruck, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany 22. Cain and the Example of the Birds - Christfried Böttrich, University of Greifswald, Germany 23. Die Bedeutung der Assumptio Mosis für die Erforschung des frühen Christentums - Jan Dochhorn, University of Durham, UK 24. Neither Deuteronomic nor Priestly: The Psalms of Solomon as the Original Answer of Learned Scribes to the Wickedness of High Priest - Patrick Pouchelle, Centre Sèvres, Paris, France IV. Dead Sea Scrolls 25 Contextual Textual Errors in 1QISa a : How the Scribe Was Impacted by His Textual Environment - Donald W. Parry, Brigham Young University, USA 26. Psalmenhandschriften in den Qumrantexten - Hermann Lichtenberger, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany 27. ‘Luxury Scrolls’ from the Judean Desert - Emanuel Tov, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 28. Qumran Readings in Agreement with the Septuagint against the Masoretic Text. Part Four: 2 Samuel - Corrado Martone, University of Turin, Italy 29. When Prophecy Fails: Apocalyptic Schemes for Dating the ‘Appointed Time of the End’ in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jesus Movement - James D. Tabor, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA 30. Science Fiction in the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Case of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the Nephilim - Helen R. Jacobus, University of Manchester, UK V. History of Scholarship 31. Of Moses, Mountains, and Models: Joseph Smith’s Book of Moses in Dialogue with the Greek Life of Adam and Eve - David Calabro, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, USA 32. Paul Fiebig’s Reply to Arthur Drews on the Miracles of Jesus and Apollonius of Tyana - Craig A. Evans, Houston Baptist University, USA 33. The Contribution of Italian Scholarship on Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins, from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century - Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan, USA Indices Index of Authors Index of Passages Index of Subjects
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iUniverse A Jewish Philosophy of History Israels
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Lutterworth Press Torah for Gentiles
Book SynopsisThe Didache as a mediating document between Jewish and gentile Christians, advocating Mosaic law without full conversion.Trade Review'In this stimulating and original monograph, Nessim argues that the author of the Didache mandated the same Torah followed by the Jewish people for gentiles, insofar as it was deemed to apply to them. The claim is controversial, but in arguing it, Nessim touches on an array of issues pertinent to the study of Jewish and Christian identity and their relationship to each other.' - James Carleton Paget, University of Cambridge 'Much has been written since the rediscovery of the Didache on its relationship to Judaism and Torah, but most of the work has been piecemeal, focusing on particular texts and problems. . . . In this book Daniel Nessim has provided a plausible and holistic account of its background in the historical context of the failed revolt against Rome and its aftermath in Antioch, drawing particularly on the Dead Sea Scrolls and other Jewish sources. He locates the struggle in the emergence of the earliest movement of Jesus believers around the position of Torah, God's covenant with Israel, and continuing Jewish ethnic identity in mixed communities of Jesus believers. . . . His study provides intriguing possibilities for rethinking relations today between Jesus-believing Jews and gentiles who identify with and wish to live and worship in common with them.' - Jonathan Draper, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 'A fresh and measured study of how the Didache understood the application of the Torah to Gentile followers of Jesus and Jews respectively. I highly recommend it!' - David Rudolph, The King's University, Southlake, TexasTable of ContentsPreface | ix Abbreviations | xi Introduction | xiii Part One: Didache and Torah | 1 1. The Didache and the Torah: A Literature Review | 3 2. Text and Transmission | 22 Part Two: A Comprehensible and Authoritative Teaching | 45 3. Crisis and Community | 47 4. Two Ways and the One Way of Torah | 74 5. An Authoritative Torah and Teacher | 90 Part Three: Torah for the Lord's Community | 113 6. The Two Ways Choice | 115 7. The Sectio, Jesus, and the Torah | 129 8. The Sectio and the Two Ways | 140 9. The Torah and the Two Ways | 158 10. The Yoke of the Lord | 177 11. The Two Ways Disciple | 196 Conclusion | 221 Bibliography | 225 Author Index | 243 Subject Index | 247 Index of References | 253
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University of Pennsylvania Press Maimonides and the Merchants
Book SynopsisThe advent of Islam in the seventh century brought profound economic changes to the Jews living in the Middle East, and Talmudic law, compiled in and for an agrarian society, was ill equipped to address an increasingly mercantile world. In response, and over the course of the seventh through eleventh centuries, the heads of the Jewish yeshivot of Iraq sought precedence in custom to adapt Jewish law to the new economic and social reality.In Maimonides and the Merchants, Mark R. Cohen reveals the extent of even further pragmatic revisions to the halakha, or body of Jewish law, introduced by Moses Maimonides in his Mishneh Torah, the comprehensive legal code he compiled in the late twelfth century. While Maimonides insisted that he was merely restating already established legal practice, Cohen uncovers the extensive reformulations that further inscribed commerce into Jewish law. Maimonides revised Talmudic partnership regulations, created a judicial method to enable JewishTrade Review"Maimonides and the Merchants opens a new window onto Maimonides' unprecedentedly systematic and comprehensive code of law. Cohen's exceptionally clear and cogent readings of Mishneh Torah, balanced against previous rabbinic legal writings on the one hand and Geniza evidence on the other, successfully establish Mishneh Torah as a social-political endeavor addressed to a real-life audience." * Islamic Law and Society *Table of ContentsNotes and Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. Codification and Legal Change Chapter 2. Halakha and the Custom of the Merchants Chapter 3. Updating the Halakha Chapter 4. Partnership Chapter 5. Commercial Agency (Suhba) Chapter 6. Suhba-Agency in the Code Chapter 7. Proxy Legal Agency Chapter 8. Sale and Contract Chapter 9. Judicial Autonomy Conclusion. Legal Change and Originality Notes Works Cited Index Acknowledgments
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Journal of Jewish Studies The Image and Its Prohibition in Jewish Antiquity
Book SynopsisAgainst the commonly held opinion that ancient Judaism was an artless culture, this sumptuously illustrated book offers new ways of looking at art in Jewish antiquity. Leading experts, under the editorship of Sarah Pearce, skilfully explore different functions of images in relation to their prohibition by the Second of the Ten Commandments.Trade ReviewThe contributors are all specialist scholars, in a range of fields, and their essays represent the latest scholarship in English on this tantalising and complex subject. -- Standpoint Standpoint
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Rebecca at the Well Foundation His Majesty Requests The Prophetic Significance
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Ruach Ministries International the Restoration and the Gifts of the Spirit
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Cambridge University Press The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel
Book SynopsisThe first study to treat the history of claims to an Israelite identity as an ongoing historical phenomenon from biblical times onwards. From an expert on the history of traditions about the twelve tribes of Israel, this volume brings a long-term comparative approach to biblical and nonbiblical Israelite histories.Table of Contents1. Judah's Israels: The twelve tribes of Israel in the Hebrew Bible; 2. The tribes that were not lost: The Samaritans; 3. Across the River Sambatyon: The lost tribes of Israel in medieval legends; 4. Becoming Israel in America: The Mormons and the new Jerusalem; 5. A lost tribe returns: The beta Israel in Ethiopia and Israel.
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Cambridge University Press Jewish Communities in Modern Asia
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Cambridge University Press Modern Jewish Philosophy and the Politics of Divine Violence
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Legare Street Press The Jew The Gypsy and El Islam
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Legare Street Press Ceremonies Customs Rites and Traditions of the
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LEGARE STREET PR The Kabbalah Unveiled
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Legare Street Press Das Leben Jesu Nach Judischen Quellen
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LEGARE STREET PR Midrash haZohar
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Independently Published Kabbalah for the Student Kabbalah Revealed Interactive Part 1
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Cambridge University Press A Guide to Biblical Hebrew Syntax
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Lulu.com Jewish Theology
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iUniverse 54 Torah Talks
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Edinburgh University Press Matzpen
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New York University Press Heavenly Sex
Book SynopsisCelebrated sex expert and bestselling author Dr. Ruth Westheimer bridges the gap between sex and religion in this provocative exploration of intimacy in the Jewish faithIn this light-hearted, lively tour of Jewish sexuality, Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer and Jonathan Mark team up to reveal how the Jewish tradition is much more progressive than popular wisdom might lead one to believe. Applying Dr. Ruth's acclaimed brand of couples therapy to such Biblical relationships as Abraham and Sarah, and Joseph and Potiphar's wife, the authors enlist Biblical lore to explore such topics as surrogacy, incest, and arranged marriages. They offer a clearer understanding of the intertwining relationships between sexuality and spirituality through incisive investigations of the Song of Songs, Ruth, Proverbs, Psalms, and some of the bawdier tales of the Prophets. One chapter provides a provocative new perspective on the Sabbath as a weekly revival, highlighting not only its spiritual nature, but also its maTrade ReviewAmerica's favorite sex therapist probably best known for making the word orgasm a TV talk show favorite, collaborates with Jewish Week editor Mark in a more significant accomplishment—a thoughtful study of the roles of sexuality in Judaica. * Booklist *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Gender Orientalism and the Jewish Nation
Book SynopsisEphraim Moses Lilien (1874-1925) was one of the most important Jewish artists of modern times. As a successful illustrator, photographer, painter and printer, he became the first major Zionist artist. Surprisingly there has been little in-depth scholarly research and analysis of Lilien's work available in English, making this book an important contribution to historical and art-historical scholarship.Concentrating mainly on his illustrations for journals and books, Lynne Swarts acknowledges the importance of Lilien's groundbreaking male iconography in Zionist art, but is the first to examine Lilien's complex and nuanced depiction of women, which comprised a major dimension of his work. Lilien's female images offer a compelling glimpse of an alternate, independent and often sexually liberated modern Jewish woman, a portrayal that often eluded the Zionist imagination. Using an interdisciplinary approach to integrate intellectual and cultural history with issues of gender, Jewish history Trade ReviewOnce you see what Swarts shows here, you’ll see an entirely new early Zionist culture. You’ll wonder why you never thought to ask the questions this book so deftly and convincingly answers. * Maya Balakirsky Katz, Bar-Ilan University Department of Jewish Art, Israel and editor Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture *Gender, Orientalism and the Jewish Nation: At the German Fin de Siècle widens our understanding of how artists at this period, in particular Ephraim Moses Lilien, used extensively portrayals of women to further the national goal of Zionism. By looking astutely at these images and seeing them within the social and historical context, Lynne M. Swarts has made a major contribution to the way gender and orientalism figured prominently in the building of a national idea. Her work, elegantly produced, deserves special recognition as she breaks new ground in thinking about the interrelationship between visual culture and historical phenomena. * Richard I. Cohen, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, author of Jewish Icons. Art and Society in Modern Europe *A sound and informative analysis of a rich subject. Although it has a strong academic basis, the book is approachable, with many specialist historical aspects outlined. The many illustrations give us a view of Lilien’s art and related images. * Alexander Adams Art Blog *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Finding Blind Spots Chapter One: Ephraim Moses Lilien and His Oeuvre: Context and Contested Issues Chapter Two: ‘We Put All our Hope in Him’: Lilien, Zionism and Male Aesthetics Chapter Three: Boundaries and Borderlines: The ‘New Woman’ and the New Jewish Woman Chapter Four: The Dangerous ‘Other’: Lilien’s Femmes Fatales, Other Male Avant-garde Behaviour and Elsa Lasker-Schüler’s Transgendered Vision Chapter Five: Biblical Heroines, Biblical Illustrations and the Search for Meaning Chapter Six: Ost und West, Zionism and the Construction of German Jewish Orientalism Chapter Seven: The Exotic ‘Other’: Lilien’s Oriental Beauties and a Jewish Oriental Voice? Conclusion Bibliography
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Authorhouse The Book of Joshua: A Study in Prophetic History
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1517 Media Jewish Paideia: Education and Identity in the
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PublicAffairs,U.S. Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and My People
Book SynopsisA classic account of courage, integrity, and most of all, belongingIn 1977, Natan Sharansky, a leading activist in the democratic dissident movement in the Soviet Union and the movement for free Jewish emigration, was arrested by the KGB. He spent nine years as a political prisoner, convicted of treason against the state. Every day, Sharansky fought for individual freedom in the face of overt tyranny, a struggle that would come to define the rest of his life.Never Alone reveals how Sharansky's years in prison, many spent in harsh solitary confinement, prepared him for a very public life after his release. As an Israeli politician and the head of the Jewish Agency, Sharansky brought extraordinary moral clarity and uncompromising, often uncomfortable, honesty. His story is suffused with reflections from his time as a political prisoner, from his seat at the table as history unfolded in Israel and the Middle East, and from his passionate efforts to unite the Jewish people.Written with frankness, affection, and humor, the book offers us profound insights from a man who embraced the essential human struggle: to find his own voice, his own faith, and the people to whom he could belong.
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Purdue University Press Next Year in Jerusalem: Exile and Return in
Book SynopsisNext Year in Jerusalem recognizes that Jews have often experienced or imaged periods of exile andreturn in their long tradition. The fourteen papers in this collection examine this phenomenon from different approaches, genres, and media. They cover the period from biblical times through today. Among the exiles highlighted are the Babylonian Exile (sixth century BCE), the exile after the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple (70 CE), and the years after the Crusaders (tenth century CE). Events of return include the aftermath of the Babylonian Exile (fifth century BCE), the centuries after theTemple’s destruction (first and second CE), and the years of the establishment of the modern State of Israel (1948 CE). In each instance authors pay close attention to the historical settings, the literature created by Jews and others, and the theological explanations offered (typically, this was seen as divine punishment or reward for Israel’s behavior). The entire volume is written authoritativelyand accessibly.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Editor's Introduction Contributors Place as Real and Imagined in Exile: Jerusalem at the Center of Ezekiel, by Samuel L. Boyd "How Deserted Lies the City": Politics and the Trauma of Homelessness in the Hebrew Bible, by Dereck Daschke Exile and Return in the Samaritan Traditions, by Menahem Mor The Āl-Yāhrūdu Texts (ca. 572–477 BCE): A New Window into the Life of the Judean Exilic Community of Babylonia, by Jean-Philippe Delorme Karaites and Jerusalem: From Anan ben David to the Karaite Heritage Center in the Old City, by Daniel J. Lasker Jewish Folk Songs: Exile and Return, by Paula Eisenstein Baker Is Zionism a Movement of Return?, by Haim Sperber The Jew in Situ: Variations of Zionism in Early Twentieth Century America, by Judah M. Bernstein Returning to Jewish Theology: Further Reflections on Franz Rosenzweig, by Jean Alexrad Cahan Exile and Return: Indian Jews and the Politics of Homecoming, by Joseph HodesAgainst the Sabra Current: Hanokh Bartov's Each Had Six Wings and the Embrace of Diasporic Vitality, by Philip Hollander Shylock and the Ghetto, or East European Jewish Culture and Israeli Identity , by Dror Abend-David Exile and Zionism in the Writings of Rav Shagar, by Shlomo Abramovich The Role of the Temple Mount Faithful Movement in Changing Messianic Religious Zionists' Attitude toward the Temple Mount, by Mordechai (Motti) Inbari
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Kar-Ben Copies Ltd All About Rosh Hashanah
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Jewish Lights Publishing The Heart of Loneliness: How Jewish Wisdom Can
Book SynopsisUsing the wisdom of the Jewish tradition to better understand and deal with the pain of loneliness in our lives and in the lives of those we love. Long description: Loneliness is pervasive in our society but is rarely addressed. It comes in many forms, from the loneliness of loss to that of sickness; from single life to marriage to divorce. In fact, even the most successful among us are not immune. Even achievement can be an avenue to loneliness. Through sensitivity, compassion and insight, this book provides the stories and tools we need to begin addressing loneliness in our lives and the lives of those we love. With masterful storytelling, Rabbi Marc Katz uses the pains of our ancestors to show us the unique ways loneliness appears in our lives. Drawing on the stories of Isaac and Rachel, King Uzziah and Tamar, Jeremiah and Honi, Hagar and Aaron, Rabbi Katz helps readers understand the nuances of loneliness in their own lives. He helps them understand that although their pain may feel like an island, others have walked there before them. Thoughtful insights on loneliness also help family and friends have a better sense of how and why their friends, children, parents and co-workers suffer. Then, using the tools of the Jewish tradition, Rabbi Katz looks at concrete ways as individuals and as community members we may help those who are lonely in our midst. This book is for anyone who is or has suffered from the pain of loneliness as well as those loved ones who stand on the sideline feeling ill equipped to address the alienation they see.
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Shambhala Publications Inc Sacred Therapy: Jewish Spiritual Teachings on
Book SynopsisIn Sacred Therapy Estelle Frankel travels to the heart of Jewish mysticism to reveal how people of any faith can draw upon this rich body of teachings to gain wisdom, clarity, and a deeper sense of meaning in the midst of modern life. In an engaging and accessible style, Frankel brings together tales and teachings from the Bible, the Talmud, Kabbalah, and the Hasidic traditions as well as evocative case studies and stories from her own life to create an original, inspirational guide to emotional healing and spiritual growth.
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Academic Studies Press A Story of Jewish Experience in Mississippi
Book SynopsisThrough the story of his Russian–Jewish parents’ arrival and in the Mississippi region, the author reveals the experience of the Jewish community in Hattiesburg from the 1920s through the 1960s, as it goes through times of prosperity but also faces the dangers of anti-Semitism. The story starts with the author’s father arriving in 1924 to become a peddler and then a merchant, joined by his mother in 1925, and follows the author himself as he searches into the history of his parents and the Jewish community, as well as a variety of its members: a young Jewish man who is tried and convicted of murder; Arthur Brodey, a Reform rabbi who gains wider acceptance for the congregation; Charles Mantinband, a rabbi whose civil rights activities won national recognition but stirred fears of Klan violence in his congregation; and Waldoff’s brother-in-law “B” Botnick of the Anti-Defamation League, whose work made him a target of assassin Byron de la Beckwith.Trade Review“What happens when a Professor Emeritus of English writes the story of his family’s settlement in America? In the case of A Story of Jewish Experience in Mississippi we get a modest size book with huge insights to important factors of American—especially Southern—Jewish history. … I recommend A Story of Jewish Experience in Mississippi especially for the insight it gives to this aspect of American history.” —Janice Rothschild Blumberg, The Jewish Georgian * The Jewish Georgian *“In addition to providing new first-person material, Waldoff attends to questions of narrative and memory, not only reporting family stories, but noting omissions, inaccuracies, and discrepancies in and between various accounts. This tendency reflects the author’s background in literary studies, and it enriches the text. … A Story of Jewish Experience in Mississippi succeeds as a blended family history and memoir. Waldoff competently retells a specific, multigenerational story that speaks at once to the local conditions of Jewish life in Hattiesburg and to regional, national, and transnational developments in Jewish life and culture. Passages are rich and detailed, and his emphasis on memory and narrative suggests the possibilities of a more interdisciplinary approach to the Jewish South.” —Joshua Parshall, Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life, Southern Jewish History“Not every Jewish immigrant from Russia and Eastern Europe who landed at Ellis Island ended up in Brooklyn or the Lower East Side. Some of them reached such unlikely destinations as the chicken farms of Petaluma and the frozen wastes of North Dakota. Relatively few of them, however, tried to make a new life in the heart of the Deep South. A Story of Jewish Experience in Mississippi by Leon Waldoff is a heartfelt but also meticulously researched and deeply insightful account of one family that did. ... Not until he undertook the research for his book did Waldoff fully understand the unspoken rules that governed race relations in the Deep South. … To his great credit, Waldoff suggests throughout his affecting book that the Jews in Mississippi and elsewhere in the Deep South could have and should have recognized their common cause with their black neighbors far sooner than they did. And yet, to the credit of the Jewish leaders and activists that he also writes about, Waldoff demonstrates that the Jewish community, once roused to action, joined the struggle with strength and good courage.” —Jonathan Kirsch, the Jewish Journal“Waldoff, a professor emeritus of English at the University of Illinois, has written a fine account of his youth in Hattiesburg. A Story of Jewish Experience in Mississippi covers a lot of ground. It is not only a profile of a remote Jewish community, but an examination of race relations during the Jim Crow era and the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.” —Sheldon Kirshner, The Times of Israel“Waldoff proves to be a fine historian. He tracks down a broad range of primary sources to flesh out details and makes use of the literature on southern Jews to provide a larger context. The book reads like a journey of discovery, as Waldoff uncovers the backstory of dimly remembered events, people, and family lore, while allowing his characters to be heard in their own voices as much as possible. His tale is not only well told, but it also adds detail and nuance to important subjects in the historiography of southern Jewry.”—Deborah R. Weiner, Journal of Southern HistoryTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: From Russia to Mississippi Chapter 2: A Merchant, After All Chapter 3: Fear in Low Profile: An Incident in the 1930s Chapter 4: Our Home Chapter 5: Surviving the Depression, Finding Acceptance, Anticipating War Chapter 6: Breaking the Silence about Segregation Chapter 7: Fear in High Profile: Terrorism in the 1960s Afterword
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Academic Studies Press For the Good of the Nation: Institutions for
Book SynopsisTens of thousands of Jewish children were orphaned during World War I and in the subsequent years of conflict. In response, Jewish leaders in Poland established CENTOS, the Central Union of Associations for Jewish Orphan Care. Through CENTOS, social workers and other professionals cooperated to offer Jewish children the preparation necessary to survive during a turbulent period. They established new organizations that functioned beyond the authority of the recognized Jewish community and with the support of Polish officials. The work of CENTOS exemplifies the community’s goal to build a Jewish future. Translations of sources from CENTOS publications in Yiddish and Polish describe the lives of the orphaned Jewish children and the tireless efforts of adults to better the children’s circumstances.Trade Review“For the Good of the Nation should be an interesting book and source of references for researchers of interwar Polish-Jewish society, culture, social politics, and education. All readers will have a chance to discover in this volume something relevant to their research. It may serve also as an important inspiration for the next research undertaking.” —Kamil Kijek, Institute for Jewish Studies, University of Wrocław, Slavic Review, Vol. 77, No. 4 -- Kamil Kijek * Slavic Review *“Although orphan care in Poland after World War I is often mentioned in Polish studies, Martin’s book is the first to cover this topic—and American assistance in particular—in such a thorough and detailed fashion. … Sean Martin collected material for his book in libraries and archives on three continents. Not every specialist on interwar Poland, Jewish history, Polish-Jewish-American relations, or history of social work—to whom this book would be of particular interest—has had such an opportunity. By publishing his documentary history, Martin has unlocked the libraries and archives for his colleagues. Documents sitting untouched on the shelves of archives or libraries, like books with uncut edges, remain silent. Martin has allowed them to speak. Moreover, by reconstructing the tragic history, he, either explicitly or implicitly, holds us accountable to children for all the wars that we have waged and, sadly, continue to wage.” —Olga Medvedeva-Nathoo, The Polish Review * The Polish Review *Table of Contents Introduction I: A History of CENTOS II: Descriptions of Homes for Children The “Orphanage in Pinsk” Ben-Levi The Publication of the Home for Orphans in Lwów, Zborowska 8 Maks Schaff Childish Stubbornness: Notes of a Teacher Tsvi Tarlovski Pen Strokes (From My Inspections in the Provinces) A. Goldin Images of Youth in School Publications Leon Gutman The Strike: An Image of Dormitory Life Yakov Sarner III: Home for Jewish Children and Farm in Helenówek Education or Crime? From the Diary of an Educator Yekhiel Ben-Tsiyon Kats IV: CENTOS in Otwock The Therapeutic and Educational Institution in Otwock (Three Months of Activity) Zofia Rosenblum Awakening in an Institution (Images of an Institution for Defective Children in Otwock) Kalman Lis Two Visits in CENTOS Helena Boguszewska Five Years of CENTOS Activity in Otwock Zofia Rosenblum Working with Abnormal Children: On Eight Years of CENTOS in Otwock Abraham Berger Afterword Acknowledgments Index
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University of Massachusetts Press The Venice Ghetto: A Memory Space that Travels
Book SynopsisThe Venice Ghetto was founded in 1516 by the Venetian government as a segregated area of the city in which Jews were compelled to live. The world's first ghetto and the origin of the English word, the term simultaneously works to mark specific places and their histories, and as a global symbol that evokes themes of identity, exile, marginalization, and segregation. To capture these multiple meanings, the editors of this volume conceptualize the ghetto as a "memory space that travels" through both time and space.This interdisciplinary collection engages with questions about the history, conditions, and lived experience of the Venice Ghetto, including its legacy as a compulsory, segregated, and enclosed space. Contributors also consider the ghetto's influence on the figure of the Renaissance moneylender, the material culture of the ghetto archive, the urban form of North Africa's mellah and hara, and the ghetto's impact on the writings of Primo Levi and Marjorie Agosín.In addition to the volume editors, The Venice Ghetto features a foreword from James E. Young and contributions from Shaul Bassi, Murray Baumgarten, Margaux Fitoussi, Dario Miccoli, Andrea Yaakov Lattes, Federica Ruspio, Michael Shapiro, Clive Sinclair, and Emanuela Trevisan Semi.
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Society of Biblical Literature The Jewish Middle Ages
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Academic Studies Press Moses and Abraham Maimonides: Encountering the
Book SynopsisMoses Maimonides—a proud heir to the Andalusian tradition of Aristotelian philosophy—crafted a bold and original philosophical interpretation of Torah and Judaism. His son Abraham Maimonides is a fascinating maverick whose Torah commentary mediates between the philosophical interpretations of his father, the contextual approach of Biblical exegetes such as Saadya, and the Sufi-flavored illuminative mysticism of his Egyptian Pietist circle. This pioneering study explores the intersecting approaches of Moses and Abraham Maimonides to the spark of divine illumination and revelation of the divine name Ehyeh asher Ehyeh, “I am that I am / I will be who I will be.”Trade Review“…Moses and Abraham Maimonides: Encountering the Divine, offers us a far more nuanced comparison of Abraham and Moses Maimonides than we have previously seen. Lobel presents a valuable portrait of the interplay between Maimonides’s philosophy and his inner religious life and spiritual practices. …Lobel’s book provides an excellent comparison between the thought of Moses and Abraham Maimonides. Her contributions to the scholarship, though subtle and nuanced, are certainly important. It is definitely a worthwhile read for anyone interested in Moses or Abraham Maimonides. …She identifies nuanced differences and puts to rest facile oversimplifications. It is the start of the study, though, not the end. There remain important questions that, as Pines wrote, ‘“need further investigation.’””— David Fried, The Lehrhaus“Reading Lobel’s book, one gets a vivid impression of scholarship as a joint venture and a communal affair. The reader will not find in her study breakthroughs and new directions that are going against the current of the main scholarly stream. Rather, the book presents thoughtful and stimulating discussions that elaborate, reinforce, and complement investigations made by other scholars in the field.”— Ehud Krinis, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval StudiesTable of ContentsTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One. Maimonides and Abraham Maimonides on Created Light, Created Word, and the Evant at Mount Sinai 1. Abraham Maimonides on Created Light in the Cleft of the Rock: Exodus 33:222. Maimonides on Created Light: An Esoteric Interpretation3. Abraham and Moses Maimonides on Cloud and Glory: Exodus 16:9–10/Guide III:94. Abraham Maimonides on Created Light in the Preparation for the Sinai Event5. Maimonides on the Theophany at Mount Sinai6. Abraham Maimonides on the Created Word at Mount Sinai: Between Maimonides and R. Abraham he-Ḥasid7. Abraham and Moses Maimonides on Created Light in the Vision of the NoblesPart Two. Ehyeh asher Ehyeh and the Tetragrammaton: Between Eternity and Necessary Existence8. Introduction: Ehyeh asher Ehyeh and the Tetragrammaton9. Rabbinic Interpretations of Ehyeh asher Ehyeh10. The Interpretation of Saadya Gaon11. Saadya’s Long Commentary to Exodus 3:13–1512. Abraham Maimonides on Saadya Gaon13. The Interpretation of Maimonides14. Abraham on Eternity and Relationship Conclusion
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Brandeis University Press Transmitting Jewish History – Yosef Hayim
Book SynopsisThe deeply personal reflections of a giant of Jewish history. Scholar Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi (1932–2009) possessed a stunning range of erudition in all eras of Jewish history, as well as in world history, classical literature, and European culture. What Yerushalmi also brought to his craft was a brilliant literary style, honed by his own voracious reading from early youth and his formative undergraduate studies. This series of interviews paints a revealing portrait of this giant of history, bringing together exceptional material on Yerushalmi’s personal and intellectual journeys that not only attests to the astonishing breakthrough of the issues of Jewish history into “general history,” but also offers profound insight into being Jewish in today's world. Trade Review“[Yerushalmi's] profound insights into what it means to be a Jew in modern times comes out in these fascinating interviews.” * Jewish Link *Table of ContentsForeword to the English Edition by Alexander KayeNote to the French Edition by Ophra YerushalmiIntroduction – Sylvie Anne GoldbergI. Zakhor, From Memory to Reading HistoryII. Choosing HistoryIII. Back to ChildhoodIV. The Path to CardosoV. The Melody of HistoryVI. From Zakhor to FreudVII. DerridaVIII. New York: 1939-1945IX. Who Makes History?: Questions of InterpretationX. A Jewish Kid from the Bronx at Harvard and ColumbiaXI. Professor YerushalmiXII. Questions of History and HistoriographyXIII. The CollectorXIV. Gershom ScholemXV. The Ritual ExperienceXVI. Truth in History and Its AvatarsXVII. Messianism and ZionismXVIII. The State of Israel and Messianic SignificanceXIX. An American JewXX. From Yesterday to TomorrowWith “Clio and the Jews: Reflections on Jewish Historiography in the Sixteenth Century”Index
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Wipf & Stock Publishers What Am I Missing?
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Damascus Texts
Book SynopsisThe Damascus document is one of the most important texts from the Qumran caves. Part One of this Companion offers a lucid and up-to-date introduction to all the manuscripts, including the eight recently published from Qumran Cave 4. It also provides a review of the key areas of scholarly research on this important Qumran text. Part Two is devoted to the recently published text 4QMiscellaneous Rules (4Q265; olim Serekh Damascus). This text has already become the subject of intense interest among students of the Dead Sea Scrolls because of its unique relationship to both the Community Rule and the Damascus Document.Trade Review"This is a thorough survey of one of the more important texts of the Dead Sea Scrolls." --William M. Schniedewind, Religious Studies Review, January 2003
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Verso Books On the Nation and the Jewish People
Book SynopsisErnest Renan was one of the intellectual giants of the second half of the nineteenth century in France, the man who first opened up the study of nationalism. In this book, Shlomo Sand, the author of the best-selling The Invention of the Jewish People, demonstrates the complexity of Renan's thought. Sand shows the relationship of Renan's work to that of key twentieth-century thinkers on nationalism, such as Raymond Aron and Ernest Gellner, and argues for the continued importance of studying Renan.Alongside his essay, Sand presents two classic lectures by Renan: the first, the renowned "What Is a Nation?", argues that nations are not based upon race, religion, and language; in the second he uses historical evidence to show that the Jews cannot be considered a "pure ethnos." On the Nation and the Jewish People is an important contribution to the understanding of nationalism, bringing back into play the work of a profoundly misunderstood thinker.
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CDL Press A Life in Jewish Education: Essays in Honor of Louis L. Kaplan
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Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd Hermann Adler: The King's Chief Rabbi
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i2i Publishing Spiritual Illumination in the Modern World:
Book SynopsisCan we understand G-D and his creation? What is man’s role in creation? How does G-D oversee his creations and to what final purpose? Spiritual Illumination in the Modern World was conceived as a work of Jewish outreach and targeted to help connect those who feel distant from G-D and uninspired by the practices of the religion, regardless of level of observance. For the committed Spiritual Seeker there is a strong emphasis on the Jewish Mystical tradition - the Kabbalah - which has so much to offer in addressing the big questions in life. The book emphasises the vibrancy and spiritual uplift at the heartbeat of Judaism - the Torah and the Mitzvot. It is written in a distinctly modern idiom by an Orthodox Jewish scientist, without cutting corners or relying on oversimplifications. Notwithstanding, to aid clarity in understanding interspersed throughout are helpful Figures, Graphics, Tables, Visualisations and Summaries. In addition, most Chapters begin with a short recapitulation of the previous chapter in order to instil a sense of continuity and progression. Another feature is that most of the chapters were crafted to be potentially stand-alone self-contained units. After an Introduction, the work opens by asking the tantalising question: Is Science on the verge of Discovering G-D? followed by addressing perhaps the greatest paradox faced in Jewish Philosophy (Hashkafa): Why did G-D create a physical world populated by a species like mankind, the majority of whom deny His very existence? By adopting visualisations, metaphors and allegories, an ambitious attempt is made to impart insights into the Oneness of the Creator (Hashem, may He be blessed) and His Creations, focussing on the Supernal Worlds, G-D’s Emanations (via the Sephirot) as well as governance of our physical existence. Man, defined as a composite of the physical and Spiritual, is represented as an ongoing conflict of opposing emotional forces - the good inclination versus the evil inclination - the outcome of which has cosmic ramifications. As the book reaches its climax, the focus turns to the Torah and Mitzvot to expose infinite levels of depth, many of which are accessible to man. The final chapter touches on the Torah and Science debate and eschatology, the end of days, our present era. The work completes by offering practical advice towards Spiritual Illumination carefully selected from several of the Great Figures in Jewish thought throughout the ages including: the Rambam, the Arizal, the Ramchal, the Vilna Gaon, the Rebbes of Lubavitch and Rav Kook.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Jüdische Selbstverwaltung unter dem NS-Regime:
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Jews and Christians in Their Graeco-Roman
Book SynopsisIn this book, published on the occasion of Pieter W. van der Horst's 60th birthday and his retirement from the chair of early Christian, Jewish, and Hellenistic studies at Utrecht University, the author presents a selection of 30 essays (most of them recent) on the religious and cultural milieu of early Christianity. The focus is especially on Jewish culture in the centuries around the turn of the era in its interaction with Hellenism. The book also contains various studies on translation problems in the New Testament in the light of Greek philology, on the Samaritan world in its conflict with Judaism, on beliefs and usages in the pagan Hellenistic world and on a variety of patristic documents. One finds studies thematically as far apart as the anthropology of the rabbis and the origins of Greek atheism. The unity in this variety is that all these studies aim at shedding new light on the world of the early Christians in the first six centuries of the Common Era, a field of research to which the author has been contributing for more than 35 years.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Herodian Judaism and New Testament Study
Book SynopsisThis book presents a selection of William Horbury's recent essays. Those collected in Part I seek to trace the profile of Herodian Jewish piety, its Greek and Roman setting, and its reflection in Christianity. Monotheism, mysticism, perceptions of Moses and the Temple are all considered in this way, and a Jewish context for the term 'gospel' and the institution of 'the Lord's Supper' is suggested. Part II treats modern New Testament study, with special attention to its links with study of the classical and Jewish traditions, and a survey on British study in its international setting.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) The Samaritans in Flavius Josephus
Book SynopsisThe first-century C.E. Jewish historian Flavius Josephus is our main source of information for the early history of the Samaritans, a community closely related to Judaism whose development as an independent religion is commonly dated in the Hellenistic-Roman period. Josephus' two main works, Jewish War and Jewish Antiquities, contain a number of passages that purport to describe the origin, character and actions of the Samaritans. In composing his histories, Josephus drew on different sources, some identifiable others unknown to us. Contemporary Josephus research has shown that he did so not as a mere compiler but as a creative writer who selected and quoted his sources carefully and deliberately and employed them to express his personal views. Rather than trying to isolate and identify Josephus' authorities and to determine the meaning these texts had in their original setting, Reinhard Pummer examines what Josephus himself intended to convey to his audience when he depicted the Samaritans in the way he did. He attempts to combine composition criticism and historical research and argues that the differences in Josephus' portrayal of the Samaritans in War on the one hand and in Antiquities on the other are due to the different aims the historian pursued in the two works.
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Campus Verlag Faith in the World: Post-Secular Readings of
Book SynopsisExplores the relationship between Hannah Arendt's thought and theology. This volume is a manifold approach to a less evident and much-neglected undercurrent in the work of Hannah Arendt, namely her ambiguous relation to the Judeo-Christian religious heritage. It contains discussions about strictly theological motives-like salvation or original sin-but it also explores topics such as forgiveness, love, natality, and the world within the religious aura.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Editorial Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Faith in the World or: The Philosophical Contraband of a Hidden Spiritual Tradition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 An Introduction by Rafael Zawisza and Ludger Hagedorn Part I: Two Faces of Earthly Love Traces and Transitions to Hannah Arendt's Unwritten Book on Love . . 37 Sigrid Weigel Amor Mundi: The Marrano Background of Hannah Arendt's Love for the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Agata Bielik-Robson Part II: Encounters With Theology Between Adamite Dreams and Original Sin: Hannah Arendt's Cryptic Heterodoxy? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Rafael Zawisza Hannah Arendt's Debt to Rudolf Bultmann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Jim Josefson Part III: Final Destination Secularity Hannah Arendt and Michael Walzer on the Exodus: Politics in the Hebrew Bible? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Martine Leibovici The Promise Inherent in Natality: Performance and Invocation . . . . . . . 151 Christina Schues Part IV: Politics Without the Absolute Actions That Deserve to Be Remembered: Transcendence and Immortality in a Secular World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Roger Berkowitz Absolute Goodness, the Banality of Evil, and the Wickedness Beyond Vice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Milan Hanys A Jurisprudence of Neglect: Arendt, Ambedkar, and the Logic of Political Cruelty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Aishwary Kumar Epilogue: Abraham's Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 Vivian Liska Biographical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
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Alpha Edition Catalogue of the Sanskrit manuscripts in the
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