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Cambridge University Press Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions
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Cambridge University Press The Sins of the Fathers The Law and Theology of Illegitimacy Reconsidered
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Cambridge University Press Medieval Jewish Philosophical Writings
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Cambridge University Press Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity
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Cambridge University Press The Legend of the Septuagint
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Cambridge University Press Transmitting Mishnah
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Cambridge University Press The Healthy Jew The Symbiosis of Judaism and Modern Medicine
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Cambridge University Press The Polemics of Exile in Jeremiah 2645
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Cambridge University Press Methods for Exodus
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Cambridge University Press Judaism Antisemitism and Holocaust
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Cambridge University Press The Historical Jesus and the Temple
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Cambridge University Press The Historical Jesus and the Temple
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Cambridge University Press Literate Workers and the Production of Early Christian Literature
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Cambridge University Press Monotheism and Miracle
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Cambridge University Press Angels and Monotheism
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Cambridge University Press Medieval Heresies Christianity Judaism and Islam Cambridge Medieval Textbooks
Book SynopsisThis advanced undergraduate textbook is the first comparative survey of heresy and its response throughout the medieval world. Spanning England to Persia, it examines heresy, error, and religious dissent - and efforts to end them through correction, persuasion, or punishment - among Latin Christians, Greek Christians, Jews, and Muslims.Trade Review'By showing that heresy can be treated within a single framework which embraces Christianity, Judaism and Islam, Caldwell Ames has in effect redefined the subject, and made an important contribution to comparative world history. In doing so she sustains a high level of learning and intellectual power and originality over a range almost as remarkable chronologically - from patristic times until the early modern period - as culturally.' R. I. Moore, Newcastle University'Christine Caldwell Ames has written the most original and readable account of the emergence of unacceptable difference in religious belief and practice in the Abrahamic religions in the pre-modern period. She first describes the foundational differences among diaspora Judaism, Greek and Latin Christianity, and Islam between the fourth and eighth centuries. She then treats the establishment of an authoritative orthodoxy in each and the stresses within each that created different kinds of heterodoxies and different kinds of censures. Her conclusion points to several enduring consequences of these in all three religions down to the present.' Edward Peters, University of Pennsylvania'Nothing comparable to the extant literature on Christian heresy exists for the Islamic world, while the terminological controversy - can we speak of 'orthodoxy' in Islam? - adds to the imbalance. With its comparative perspective to the three Abrahamic religions through history and its nuanced discussion of how 'heresy' is constructed and by whom, Caldwell Ames's book is a much welcome contribution that helps promote a better understanding of the Islamic case and provides stimuli for further research.' Maribel Fierro, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas'Christine Caldwell Ames not only provides us with a comprehensive study of heresy, or heresies, in medieval European and Near Eastern lands, but also puts forward a convincing thesis about the interplay between religious thought and social dynamics that cuts across confessional traditions.' Uriel Simonsohn, Speculum'Undoubtedly, this is a very useful, erudite and needed book vividly showing the entangled history of religious dissent in these historical monotheisms … Her book can be thus used in a variety of ways, ranging from pure academic interest and research to teaching and other educational purposes, especially in current times, in which the continuing relevance of these monotheistic religions and their perceptions of 'right' and 'wrong' (or 'orthodoxy' and 'heresy', if you like) in various constellations becomes more than evident and at times makes the headlines worldwide.' Vasilios N. Makrides, Entangled ReligionsTable of ContentsIntroduction: 'My community will be divided': heresy in the medieval world; 1. Peoples of the book (380–661); 2. Triumphs of orthodoxy (661–1031); 3. The perfect hatred (1031–1209); 4. Cinders and ashes (1209–1328); 5. Purity and peoples (1328–1510); Epilogue; For further reading; Glossary; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Babylonian Talmud
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1921, this book presents the text of the Talmud, Tractate Berakhot in an English translation, with a detailed introduction, commentary, glossary and indices. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Judaism, translations of the Talmud and theology.Table of ContentsPreface; Summary of the tractate; Introduction; List of abbreviations; Transcription of Hebrew and Aramaic words; Translation and commentary; Glossary; Index 1. Rabbinical authorities; Index 2. Scriptural and liturgical; Index 3. General.
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Cambridge University Press Prolegomena to the History of Israel
Book SynopsisExamining the history of worship and law in Israel, Julius Wellhausen (18441918) argued that the Pentateuch is a synthesis of four independent narratives. His influential method and theory remain of significant interest in the field of biblical studies. This English translation of his key work was published in 1885.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. History of Worship: 1. The place of worship; 2. Sacrifice; 3. The sacred feasts; 4. The priests and the Levites; 5. The endowment of the clergy; Part II. History of Tradition: 6. Chronicles; 7. Judges, Samuel, and Kings; 8. The narrative of the Hexateuch; Part III. Israel and Judaism: 9. Conclusion of the criticism of the law; 10. The oral and the written Torah; 11. The theocracy as idea and as institution; Israel.
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Cambridge University Press The Theology of the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah
Book SynopsisIn the opening verses of the Book of Ezra-Nehemiah, King Cyrus exhorts the exiled Judeans to return to Jerusalem to restore worship in Jerusalem. It then narrates this restoration through the construction of the temple, the repair of the city walls, and the commitment to the written Torah. In this volume, Roger Nam offers a new and compelling argument regarding the theology of Ezra-Nehemiah: that the Judeans'' return migration, which extended over several generations, had a totalizing effect on the people. Repatriation was not a single event, but rather a multi-generational process that oscillated between assimilation and preservation of culture. Consequently, Ezra-Nehemiah presents a unique theological perspective. Nam explores the book''s prominent theological themes, including trauma, power, identity, community, worship, divine presence, justice, hope, and others ? all of which take on a nuanced expression in diaspora. He also shows how and why Ezra-Nehemiah naturally found a rich reception among emerging early Christian and Jewish interpretive communities.
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Cambridge University Press The Hebrew Bible and Environmental Ethics
Book SynopsisThe environmental crisis has prompted religious leaders and lay people to look to their traditions for resources to respond to environmental degradation. In this book, Mari Joerstad contributes to this effort by examining an ignored feature of the Hebrew Bible: its attribution of activity and affect to trees, fields, soil, and mountains. The Bible presents a social cosmos, in which humans are one kind of person among many. Using a combination of the tools of biblical studies and anthropological writings on animism, Joerstad traces the activity of non-animal nature through the canon. She shows how biblical writers go beyond sustainable development, asking us to be good neighbors to mountains and trees, and to be generous to our fields and vineyards. They envision human communities that are sources of joy to plants and animals. The Biblical writers'' attention to inhabited spaces is particularly salient for contemporary environmental ethics in their insistence that our cities, suburbs, aTrade Review'In this groundbreaking study, Mari Joerstad has found a new convergence between biblical studies and ecology. Exploring the 'living landscapes' of the Bible, from the creation texts of Genesis to the Song of Songs, Joerstad has charted a new landscape of research as well as a new pathway for action, one that has a distinctly aesthetic trajectory. In this work, the author proves to be both an artist and an exegete, a welcome combination.' William P. Brown, William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary'This book is a wide-ranging and important study of environmental ethics in relation to the Hebrew Bible but in the broad context of studies in animism, anthropology and metaphor theory. It is at the cutting edge of ideas about the role of nature in human life and thought and the way that is depicted through metaphorical language in the Hebrew Bible. It is a highly readable book, with the author persuading us that the topic is integral to our understanding of ourselves as human beings both in relationship to, and with responsibility for, the world around us.' Katharine J. Dell, University of Cambridge'Her book offers scriptural groundwork for cultivating the kind of religious imagination that makes sense of the spiritual need people have for a holy space in which to confess environmental sins together and repent for the harm they've caused.' Isaac S. Villegas, The Christian Century'This is a stunning book. It will challenge and teach you; it is both academic and radical. It will alter the way that you approach and read the Hebrew Scriptures, as well as at least the gospels and Revelation in the New Testament. It will make you think afresh about the world we live in, the food you eat, the clothes you wear, even the place you live in. This book is important because it is ground-breaking. It gathers together cohering lines of biblical investigation and Hebrew scholarship with some key environmental issues, and spiritual/faith questions within biblical exegesis and discovery, which each of us must wrestle with. The text fulfils the inclusivity of the book's title.' Andrew Francis, Anabaptism Today'… the book is a lively, thought-provoking contribution to a “green” hermeneutic.' A Journal of Bible and TheologyTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Interacting with the world: 'new animism', metaphor theory, and personalistic nature texts; 3. A watchful world: personalistic nature texts in the Torah; 4. A sentient world: personalistic nature texts in the Prophets; 5. An articulate world: personalistic nature texts in the Writings; 6. Conclusion: befriending the world.
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Cambridge University Press How Theology Shaped TwentiethCentury Philosophy
Book SynopsisMedieval theology had an important influence on later philosophy which is visible in the empiricisms of Russell, Carnap, and Quine. Other thinkers, including McDowell, Kripke, and Dennett, show how we can overcome the distorting effects of that theological ecosystem on our accounts of the nature of reality and our relationship to it. In a different philosophical tradition, Hegel uses a secularized version of Christianity to argue for a kind of human knowledge that overcomes the influences of late-medieval voluntarism, and some twentieth-century thinkers, including Benjamin and Derrida, instead defend a Jewish-influenced notion of the religious sublime. Frank B. Farrell analyzes and connects philosophers of different eras and traditions to show that modern philosophy has developed its practices on a terrain marked out by earlier theological and religious ideas, and considers how different philosophers have both embraced, and tried to escape from, those deep-seated patterns of thought.Trade Review'This wide-ranging and fascinating book should be required reading for anyone who is interested in placing twentieth-century philosophy in intellectual history, not just the history of philosophy.' John McDowell, University of PittsburghTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Introduction: the thinning out of the world; 1. Empiricism and theology; 2. John McDowell: rejecting the defensive move inward; 3. Aristotle redivivus: on Saul Kripke; 4. Hegel, theology, and Pippin's reading of Hegel; 5. Walter Benjamin: incarnation or radical incommensurability?; 6. Rolling back the Protestant Reformation: Wittgenstein and Dennett; 7. McDowell (II): active and passive faculties and the theological framework; 8. Derrida, the religion of the sublime, and the messianic; 9. Literature today and the sublime absence of aesthetic experience; 10. Where do we go from here?; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press JewishChristian Dialogues on Scripture in Late
Book SynopsisStories portraying heretics(''minim'') in rabbinic literature are a central site of rabbinic engagement with the ''other''. These stories typically involve a conflict over the interpretation of a biblical verse in which the rabbinic figure emerges victorious in the face of a challenge presented by the heretic. In this book, Michal Bar-Asher Siegal focuses on heretic narratives of the Babylonian Talmud that share a common literary structure, strong polemical language and the formula, ''Fool, look to the end of the verse''. She marshals previously untapped Christian materials to arrive at new interpretations of familiar texts and illuminate the complex relationship between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity. Bar-Asher Siegal argues that these Talmudic literary creations must be seen as part of a boundary-creating discourse that clearly distinguishes the rabbinic position from that of contemporaneous Christians and adds to a growing understanding of the rabbinic authors'' familiarity wTrade Review'Michal Bar-Asher Siegal unpacks several narrative dialogues in the Babylonian Talmud that have been previously misunderstood or deemed unexplainable. By reading them on the background of Christian polemics, this study succeeds in resurrecting the lively debates tucked away in these brief stories. This book combines an engaging prose style, methodological rigor, and creative insight, to recreates a previously unknown world of Christian-Jewish polemics in Babylonia. These dialogues come alive for the first time in centuries thanks to Bar-Asher Siegal's careful analysis. I feel like she has uncovered the ruins of a city long buried and that we can now hear for the first time the voices of these ancient polemicists - both their overt attacks as well as their subtle jabs and sarcastic wit.' Richard Hidary, Yeshiva University, New York'A heretic approaches a rabbi and asks a question about Scripture. 'Fool' answers the rabbi, and then he wins the ensuing argument by a knockout. Who were the 'fools' and who had the Full Torah? How much did the Babylonian Talmud know about the burning issues of Christian biblical interpretation and theology? Of Christian readings of verses and motifs? Did the rabbis imagine themselves as participating in discussions on such matters? With Christians? Minim? Heretics? Perhaps with themselves? These are just a few of the questions which Michal Bar-Asher Siegal examines in this new and riveting work on literary contacts between rabbinic and Christian tradition in the Babylonian Talmud as seen through minim narratives and the lens of Christian writings.' Joshua Schwartz, Bar-Ilan University, IsraelTable of Contents1. Mimin stories in the Talmud: introductory discussion; 2. 'A fool you call me?': On insult and folly in Late Antiquity; 3. 'He who forms the mountains and creates the wind': Amos 4:13 and the Jewish-Christian argument in b. Ḥullin 87a; 4. 'Rejoice, O barren one who bore no child': Isaiah 54:1 and the Jewish-Christian argument in b. Berachot 10a; 5. 'The best of them is like a brier': Micah 7:4 and the Jewish-Christian argument in b. 'Eruvin 101a; 6. 'He has drawn off from them': Hosea 5:6 and the Jewish-Christian argument in b. Yevamot 102b; 7. Reflections.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Nazi Officers Wife How One Jewish Woman
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Twelve Tribes
Book SynopsisTrade Review“These illuminating conversations with a wide variety of ordinary people—ultra-Orthodox Jews, Holocaust survivors, aging kibbutzniks, Ethiopian and Russian immigrants, Arab citizens of Israel, Jewish settlers and Palestinians in the West Bank— fill the pages of this richly descriptive book. … It is refreshing, therefore, to read a book about the lives of actual Israelis, which brings their cacophonous voices, rather than the author’s opinions, to the fore.” — Dov Waxman, New York Times Book Review "Michaeli’s engrossing narrative of Israel today, free of Washington’s policy debates and international negotiations, is a work of history from the ground up, meant to document the country at this particular moment." — National Book Review “In his artfully crafted work, Michaeli deftly escorts the reader through the complexities and interactions of Israel’s populace; one rich in a diversity of opinion and practice. Read his book and you will come to understand modern day Israel as it is: a kaleidoscope of tribes.” — Times of Israel “In Twelve Tribes, Ethan Michaeli proves he is a master portraitist – of lives, places, and cultures. His rendering of contemporary Israel crackles with energy, fueled by a historian’s vision and a journalist’s unrelenting curiosity.” — Evan Osnos, New York Times bestselling author of Age of Ambition and Wildland “Forget what you think you know—in this fascinating work of nonfiction, Michaeli captures various groups of this fractured country and brings to life how complex and intertwined everyone can be. ... Rather than provide easy answers, this is a book that invites you to meet all of these people and hear their stories and take a look into their lives. It’s perfect for starting a book club discussion and challenging ideas people might have prior to reading it.” — Book Riot "A wide-ranging variety of on-the-ground reportage, uncovering a teeming world of Israelis and Palestinians working and living in uneasy proximity. Whether visiting the Tel Aviv suburbs, fashionable cafes in Jerusalem, the West Bank, or Ponevezh Yeshiva, 'one of the essential institutions of the Haredi world,' Michaeli reveals aspects of the country’s character that historians and journalists have been unable to capture." — Kirkus Reviews "Ethan Michaeli writes about Israel with the objectivity of a keen observer and the passion of an insider with a personal stake in the future of the country. In this delightful journey through Israel’s radical diversity, he cautions us against hasty judgments. Love for the Israeli story, and anxiety for its future, animate this book." — Yossi Klein Halevi, New York Times bestselling author of Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor and senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute "Twelve Tribes is a masterful work of history and storytelling, one that cuts through the fog of politics by focusing on the people and feelings at the heart of the story of Israel. Ethan Michaeli takes the reader on an unforgettable, eye-opening journey." — Jonathan Eig, New York Times bestselling author of Ali: A Life "Traveling with Ethan Michaeli as your welcoming guide, new worlds of understanding open up on a subject that can seem so exhaustingly stale. Israel becomes not a political football but a place--multicultural, multi-lingual, multi-cuisined, multi-centuried, multi-national, everything cheek-by-jowl, arguments breaking out everywhere and always—a magical thing so very much worth saving, somehow." — Rick Perlstein, New York Times bestselling author of Reaganland “Ethan Michaeli has a gimlet eye for the people, texture, and contradictions of modern Israel. I’m in awe of his powers of observation and his ability as a modern-day Tocqueville to take us inside one of the most complex and confounding countries in the world." — Jonathan Alter, bestselling author of His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life "Ethan Michaeli paints a nuanced portrait of Israeli society." — Christian Science Monitor "Ethan Michaeli takes us on a series of jaunts around Israel, his keen observations and attention to everyday people creating a picture of the place and its inhabitants’ lives far more comprehensive than in conflict-focused news reports. ... Twelve Tribes is a joy to read, as breezy as a conversation." — American Jewish World "Ethan Michaeli has accomplished something of great value with Twelve Tribes. With his observant street level reporting and vivid writing, he has broken through stereotypes to reveal the multiplicity of Israel and the promise of its diverse peoples. From these ground level observations, I learned more about Israel than anything I'd read before." — David Maraniss, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father "Marshaling an extraordinarily extensive network—from Palestinians to Haredim, from teenagers to nonagenarians, from kibbutzniks to businesswomen, from organizers to bystanders—Ethan Michaeli here proves himself an insightful guide through the many facets of today’s Israel. Quietly and cheerfully nudging both his interviewees and his readers, he gets at the truth—not only that there are no easy answers, but also that there are so many complicated ones." — Yuval Taylor, author of Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal "While traveling across Israel, Michaeli takes an in-depth look at the patchwork of identities that make up contemporary Israeli society, from kibbutzniks to Ethiopian olim to Israeli Arabs." — Jewish Insider
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Penguin Putnam Inc Am I a Jew My Journey Among the Believers and
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Jewish Book of Why
Book Synopsis Why do Jews eat gefilte fish? Why is a glass broken at the end of a Jewish wedding ceremony? Why must the chapter of curses in the Torah be read quickly in a low voice? Why are shrimp and lobster not kosher? Why do Jews fast on Yom Kippur? Why are some Matzot square while others are round? If you''ve ever asked or been asked any of these questions, The Jewish Book of Why has all the answers. In this complete, concise, fascinating, and thoroughly informative guide to Jewish life and tradition, Rabbi Alfred J. Kolatch clearly explains both the significance and the origin of nearly every symbol, custom, and practice known to Jewish culture-from Afikomon to Yarmulkes, and from Passover to Purim. Kolatch also dispels many of the prevalent misconceptions and misunderstandings that surround Jewish observance and provides a full and unfettered look at the biblical, histori
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Oxford University Press Inc The Oxford Handbook of Jeremiah Oxford Handbooks
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe purpose of this new Handbook of Jeremiah is to unite the current diversity of approaches in Jeremiah research in 'a synthetic anthology'. In my opinion this Handbook is a milestone, very suitable for obtaining a swift overview of the recent developments in Jeremiah research. The reading of this book is also an adventure that can be talked about for a long time. * Dr H.G.L. Peels, European Journal of Theology *This is a monumental volume about a monumental book, and the editors are to be congratulated on bringing it into being...The Oxford Handbooks aim to provide scholars and graduate students with examples of cutting edge research on their subjects and guidance on the progress and direction of debate on different subjects, and this handbook does so. * John Goldingay, The Expository Times *Stulman's and Silver's edited handbook is well organized, well researched, and well written. The sheer scope and sequence of articles provides readers with an extraordinary understanding of the book of Jeremiah, the breadth and depth of scholarship that the book generates, and how this ancient book continues to have a place in the contemporary world. Those engaged in the study of the prophets and Jeremiah, in particular, will find this work insightful, challenging, and thoroughly engaging. * Carol J. Dempsey, University of Portland, Horizons *This handbook is a milestone, very suitable for a brief overview of recent developments in Jeremiah research. Reading this book is also an adventure that will be remembered for a long time. * H.G.L. Peels, the quarterly magazine *Table of ContentsPart 1 Historical and Cultural Contexts of Origin 1. The Historical Contexts of the Books of Jeremiah -- C. L. Crouch 2. Jeremiah: Diaspora in Service to Exile -- Jill Middlemas 3. The Representation of Egypt in the Book of Jeremiah -- Safwat Marzouk 4. The Historical Jeremiah -- Mark Leuchter Part 2 Textual History and Structure 5. Two Ancient Editions of the Book of Jeremiah -- Hermann-Josef Stipp 6. The Double Text of Jeremiah Revisited -- Alexander Rofé 7. The Last Stage of the Literary History of the Book of Jeremiah -- Emanuel Tov 8. Textualization and the Book of Jeremiah -- Joachim Schaper 9. The Prophet Jeremiah: Legends, Traditions and their Evolution -- Ronnie Goldstein 10. The Development of Hebrew and the Book of Jeremiah -- Aaron D. Hornkohl 11. On Poetry and Prophecy in Jeremiah -- Job Y. Jindo 12. Language Variation in the Book of Jeremiah and its Cultural and Social Background -- Frank H. Polak Part 3 Critical Questions of Interpretation 13. Jeremiah: Content and Structure -- Mark E. Biddle 14. Theories of Prophecy in Jeremiah -- Nathan Mastnjak 15. Jeremiah and Prophetic Authority -- Matthijs J. de Jong 16. Jeremiah and Inner Biblical Exegesis -- Dalit Rom-Shiloni Part 4 Major Internal Themes 17. Contested Theologies in the Book of Jeremiah -- George Fischer 18. Poetic Violence in the Book of Jeremiah -- Amy Kalmanofsky 19. Portraits of the Prophet in the Book of Jeremiah -- Else K. Holt 20. Jeremiah: The Traumatized Prophet -- L. Juliana Claassens 21. Imprisoned in Prose: Narrating Jeremiah's Confinement and the Babylonian Assault of Jerusalem -- Keith Bodner 22. The Jeremian Oracles Against the Nations -- Rhiannon Graybill 23. Jeremiah's Deathscapes -- Mary Mills 24. Hope and Resilience in the Books of Jeremiah -- Marvin A. Sweeney 25. The Ultimate Commitment: A Covenant Written on (the Tablet of) the Heart and Its Ancient Near Eastern Background -- Herbert B. Huffmon 26. Written on the Heart, Erased from the Mind: Rewriting Moral Agency in Jeremiah -- Samuel E. Balentine 27. Jeremiah's Non-Burial Refrain -- Sarah C. Jobe Part 5 Reception Engagements 28. Jeremiah in Lamentations -- Elizabeth Boase 29. Jeremiah at Qumran -- Devorah Dimant 30. Jeremiah and His Prophecies in the New Testament -- Catrin H. Williams 31. The Prophet Jeremiah in Islamic Thought -- Roberto Tottoli 32. The Figure of Jeremiah in the Work of Stefan Zweig and Rainer Maria Rilke -- Rüdiger Görner 33. Jeremiah Interpretation in Subaltern Context -- Katho Robert Bungishabaku 34. Jeremiah in Art -- Mary Chilton Callaway 35. Jeremiah and Homiletics -- Carolyn J. Sharp Part 6 Significance of the Book of Jeremiah for Key Contemporary Political Issues 36. Ecological Hermeneutics and Jeremiah -- Kristel Clayville 37. Playing with Death: Violent Exceptions and Exceptional Violence in the Book of Jeremiah -- Steed Vernyl Davidson 38. Jeremiah and Gender -- Christl M. Maier
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The University of Chicago Press Thinking in Jewish Religion and Postmodernism
Book SynopsisThese essays explore the ways in which a Jewish - or, more particularly, Yiddish - idiom complicates the question of identity. The book is intended for students of critical theory, cultural studies and Jewish studies.
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The University of Chicago Press Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism
Book SynopsisDarwin's theory of evolution transformed the life sciences and made profound claims about human origins and the human condition, topics often viewed as the prerogative of religion. As a result, evolution has provoked a wide variety of religious responses, ranging from angry rejection to enthusiastic acceptance. While Christian responses to evolution have been studied extensively, little scholarly attention has been paid to Jewish reactions. Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism is the first extended meditation on the Jewish engagement with this crucial and controversial theory. The contributors to Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinismfrom several academic disciplines and two branches of the rabbinatepresent case studies showing how Jewish discussions of evolution have been shaped by the intersections of faith, science, philosophy, and ideology in specific historical contexts. Furthermore, they examine how evolutionary theory has been deployed when characterizing Jew
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University of Chicago Press Yearnings of the Soul Psychological Thought in
Book SynopsisIn Yearnings of the Soul, Jonathan Garb uncovers a crucial thread in the story of modern Kabbalah and modern mysticism more generally: psychology. Returning psychology to its roots as an attempt to understand the soul, he traces the manifold interactions between psychology and spirituality that have arisen over five centuries of Kabbalistic writing, from sixteenth-century Galilee to twenty-first-century New York. In doing so, he shows just how rich Kabbalah's psychological tradition is and how much it can offer to the corpus of modern psychological knowledge. Garb follows the gradual disappearance of the soul from modern philosophy while drawing attention to its continued persistence as a topic in literature and popular culture. He pays close attention to James Hillman's archetypal psychology, using it to engage critically with the psychoanalytic tradition and reflect anew on the cultural and political implications of the return of the soul to contemporary psychology. Comparing Kabbalistic thought to adjacent developments in Catholic, Protestant, and other popular expressions of mysticism, Garb ultimately offers a thought-provoking argument for the continued relevance of religion to the study of psychology.
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University of Chicago Press Leo Strauss and the Rediscovery of Maimonides
Book SynopsisIn uncovering the esoteric tradition employed in Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed, the author made the radical realization that other ancient and medieval philosophers might be concealing their true thoughts through literary artifice.Trade Review"Kenneth Hart Green rigorously retraces the stages by which Strauss came to see Maimonides and his teachings in a new light. Leo Strauss and the Rediscovery of Maimonides is an ambitious attempt to see Strauss's preoccupation with Maimonides as a manifestation of his overall philosophical concerns." (Ralph Lerner, University of Chicago)"
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The University of Chicago Press Covenant of Blood Circumcision Gender in
Book SynopsisA study to examine why circumcision holds such an important place in the Jewish psyche. The text traces the symbolism of circumcision through history, examining its evolution as a symbol of the covenant in the post-exilic period of the Bible and its meaning in the era of Mishnah and Talmud.Table of Contents1: Circumcision as Symbol in the Jewish Psyche 2: Bible and Birth: Some Priestly Public Meanings 3: Interlude from Priests to Rabbis: Origins of a Liturgy 4: Reconstructing the Rite 5: Reconstructing the Rabbinic Meaning System 6: Wine, Blood, and Salvation in Rabbinic Judaism 7: Blood, Salvation, Works, and Faith: Circumcision in Early Judaism and Christianity 8: Gender Opposition in Rabbinic Judaism: Free-flowing Blood in a Culture of Control 9: Control and Transformation: "The Raw and the Cooked" in Rabbinic Culture 10: Women's Spirituality and the Presence of Mothers in Rabbinic Ritual 11: Medieval Rabbinism and the Ritual Marginalization of Women Afterword: Brit or Milah? Circumcision in American Culture Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Judaisms Theological Voice The Melody of the
Book SynopsisThrough the metaphor of music, Neusner offers an account of how he believes those faithful to the Torah meet God in the Torah, and how they should listen to the melody of God's self-revelation. The text sets forth the character and the form of the Torah as sung theology.Table of ContentsPrologue 1: God Sings 2: Thinking the Music 3: Whole Harmony 4: Reading Notes, Making Music 5: The Melody of Mind 6: The Music Makes the Words Afterword Index
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The University of Chicago Press Judaisms Theological Voice The Melody of the
Book SynopsisThrough the metaphor of music, Neusner offers an account of how he believes those faithful to the Torah meet God in the Torah, and how they should listen to the melody of God's self-revelation. The text sets forth the character and the form of the Torah as sung theology.
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The University of Chicago Press Rabbinic Political Theory Paper Religion and
Book SynopsisIn The Economics of the Mishnah Jacob Neusner showed how economics functioned as an active and generative ingredient in the system of the Mishnah. With this new study, Rabbinic Political Theory, he moves from the economics to the politics of the Mishnah, placing that politics in the broader context of ancient political theory. Neusner begins his study with a modification of Weber's categories for a theory of politics: myth, institutions, administration, passion, responsibility, and proportion. Detailing the Mishnah's conception of politics, Neusner considers what he calls the stable and static structure and system through comparison with Aristotle. Although Aristotle's Politics and the Mishnah share a common economic theory based on the fundamental unit of the householder, they diverge in their conceptions of political structure and order. Aristotle embeds economics within political economy, while, Neusner argues, the Mishnah presents the anomaly of an economics separated from politics
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University of Chicago Press Maimonides and Spinoza Their Conflicting Views
Book SynopsisUntil the last century, it was generally agreed that Maimonides was a great defender of Judaism, and Spinoza - as an Enlightenment advocate for secularization - among its key opponents. This book sets out to challenge the now predominant view of Maimonides as a protomodern forerunner to Spinoza.Trade Review"A well-conceived, well-executed thinking through of a tangled controversy over how to understand the relationship between two formidable and influential figures in the history of philosophy. Joshua Parens is thoroughly convincing in his assertion that the current scholarly tendency to assimilate Maimonides to Spinoza is superficially attractive but fundamentally misleading." (Martin D. Yaffe, University of North Texas)"
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The University of Chicago Press Beth Sholom Synagogue Frank Lloyd Wright and
Book SynopsisIn a suburb just north of Philadelphia stands Beth Sholom Synagogue, Frank Lloyd Wright's only synagogue and one of his finest religious buildings. This book takes us deep inside the synagogue's design, construction, and reception to bring us an illuminating portrait of the crowning achievement of this important aspect of Wright's career.Trade Review"One of the few authentic scholars in the field of Wright studies, Joseph M. Siry has once again made a major contribution to our understanding of the architect's ideas and buildings. Set in the context of Wright's designs for religious architecture, Siry's brilliant, clear, and thoroughly documented monograph is the definitive work on the magisterial Beth Sholom Synagogue. This beautifully written book is indispensable for our grasp of the architect's late work." -Anthony Alofsin, University of Texas"
£999.99
MO - University of Illinois Press Last Works
Book SynopsisNewly translated treatises from the great Enlightenment thinkerTrade Review"An expertly produced volume that will contribute to a vibrant conversation on the fate of the Enlightenment, the beginning of modern liberal Judaism, and the origins of German idealism. Students of eighteenth-century German thought will henceforth refer to this work."--Peter Fenves, author of The Messianic Reduction: Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time"This volume will surely be a widely welcomed contribution to the study of modern Jewish thought and European intellectual history. Bruce Rosenstock's elegant translation and scholarly introduction render Mendelssohn's Last Works accessible to beginning and advanced students of general and Jewish intellectual history."--Paul Mendes-Flohr, coeditor of The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History
£999.99
University of Washington Press The Jewish Bible
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A carefully plotted, awe-awakening journey through the evolution and adaptation of the Jewish Bible within a variety of cultures and settings. . . . Enrapturing. . . . Bibliophiles will find much here that fascinates. . . . The Jewish Bible is a fascinating look at a work whose materiality is shown to be inseparable from its meaning." -- Michelle Anne Schlingler * Foreword Reviews *"The Jewish Bible: A Material History will give you a great sense of the gift ancient and medieval scribes and scholars bequeathed to those who came after them." * Association of Mormon Letters *"Brilliant and fascinating. . . . In The Jewish Bible, Stern masterfully synthesizes this scholarship, offering a chronological history of Jewish sacred books from Qumran to the JPS Tanakh." -- Adam Kirsch * Jewish Review of Books *
£91.00
University of Washington Press The Jewish Bible
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A carefully plotted, awe-awakening journey through the evolution and adaptation of the Jewish Bible within a variety of cultures and settings. . . . Enrapturing. . . . Bibliophiles will find much here that fascinates. . . . The Jewish Bible is a fascinating look at a work whose materiality is shown to be inseparable from its meaning." -- Michelle Anne Schlingler * Foreword Reviews *"The Jewish Bible: A Material History will give you a great sense of the gift ancient and medieval scribes and scholars bequeathed to those who came after them." * Association of Mormon Letters *"Brilliant and fascinating. . . . In The Jewish Bible, Stern masterfully synthesizes this scholarship, offering a chronological history of Jewish sacred books from Qumran to the JPS Tanakh." -- Adam Kirsch * Jewish Review of Books *
£999.99
Yale University Press American Judaism
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Judaism Is About Love
Book SynopsisA profound, startling new understanding of Jewish life, illuminating the forgotten heart of Jewish theology and practice: love.A dramatic misinterpretation of the Jewish tradition has shaped the history of the West: Christianity is the religion of love, and Judaism the religion of law. In the face of centuries of this widespread misrepresentation, Rabbi Shai Heldone of the most important Jewish thinkers in America todayrecovers the heart of the Jewish tradition, offering the radical and moving argument that love belongs as much to Judaism as it does to Christianity. Blending intellectual rigor, a respect for tradition and the practices of a living Judaism, and a commitment to the full equality of all people, Held seeks to reclaim Judaism as it authentically is. He shows that love is foundational and constitutive of true Jewish faith, animating the singular Jewish perspective on injustice and protest, grace, family life, responsibilities to our neighbors and even our enemies, and chosenness.Ambitious and revelatory, Judaism Is About Love illuminates the true essence of Judaisman act of restoration from within.
£27.00
WW Norton & Co The People and the Books 18 Classics of Jewish
Book SynopsisAn essential exploration of a rich literary tradition from the Bible to modern times, by a “rare literary authority” (New York Times Book Review) and “one of our keenest critics” (Washington Post).Trade Review"[A]n astute and accessible introduction to 18 Jewish literary classics... [Kirsch's] laser focus on these works' most topical themes makes them feel so urgent that curious readers of any religious persuasion will want to read them all." -- Dara Horn - Wall Street Journal"Lucid, vivid and likely to provide helpful instruction… [Kirsch] has, like Simon Schama, a keen eye for the revelatory detail in discussing his historical subjects." -- New York Times Book Review"Anyone looking for a single-volume introduction to Jewish civilization… will find nothing better in print… A deeply serious meditation on the meaning of Jewish existence.""[A]n entertaining and enlightening review of eighteen classic works and, at the same time, Judaism’s most important ideas and ideals. It deserves to be on the Jewish bookshelf along with the eighteen books it opens for its reader." -- Jewish Book Council"Through profiles of eighteen indelible figures and chronicles...Adam Kirsch uncovers the unfailing excitements of a living, creative, and abiding civilization. And more: in this superbly clarifying panorama, he illumines how in the history of ideas Jews, despite so many permutations of approach, have faithfully adhered to a single sublime Idea." -- Cynthia Ozick"The people of the book are often unaware of the books of their people. Kirsch opens, unfurls, and illuminates the great works of Jewish tradition and history; he is our intellectual Sherpa, guiding us sure-footedly through the heights." -- Rabbi David Wolpe, author of David: The Divided Heart"Luminous… The secret of the Jews, [Kirsch] shows, is found within these classic works. Anyone interested in penetrating that secret should read The People and the Books." -- Jonathan D. Sarna, University Professor and Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University
£21.84
Little, Brown & Company To Life A Celebration of Jewish Being and
Book SynopsisAn exhilarating guide to Judaism examines the Sabbath and Jewish holidays, how Judaism offers what people need, how love of Israel makes people better Americans, and how to feel the extension of God by taking the ordinary and making it holy. Reissue.
£17.53
The University of Michigan Press Thomas Manns World
Book SynopsisProvides a comprehensive reevaluation of Thomas Mann as the representative German author of the Age of Empire, placing Mann's comments about Jews and the Jewish characters in his fiction in the larger context of his attentiveness to racial difference, both in the world at large and in himself.
£999.99
The University of Michigan Press ThreeWay Street
Book SynopsisAmong the first volumes to focus on German-Jewish transnationalism, this interdisciplinary collection spans the fields of history, literature, film, theatre, architecture, philosophy, and theology as it examines the lives of significant emigrants. Three-Way Street opens up critical ways of approaching Jewish culture from the mid-19thcentury to the present.
£999.99
Random House USA Inc Book of Jewish Values A DayByDay Guide to Ethical
Book SynopsisRabbi Joseph Telushkin combed the Bible, the Talmud, and the whole spectrum of Judaism's sacred writings to give us a manual on how to lead a decent, kind, and honest life in a morally complicated world. An absolutely superb book: the most practical, most comprehensive guide to Jewish values I know. —Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good PeopleTelushkin speaks to the major ethical issues of our time, issues that have, of course, been around since the beginning. He offers one or two pages a day of pithy, wise, and easily accessible teachings designed to be put into immediate practice. The range of the book is as broad as life itself:• The first trait to seek in a spouse (Day 17)• When, if ever, lying is permitted (Days 71-73)• Why acting cheerfully is a requirement, not a choice (Day 39)• What children don't owe their parents (Day 128)• Whether Jews should donat
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