Judaism

The History of the Jews in the Greco-Roman World examines Judaism in Palestine throughout the Hellenistic period, from Alexander the Great's conquest in 334BC to its capture by the Arabs in AD 636. Under the Greek, Roman and finally Christian supremacy...

Angelic beings can be found throughout the Hebrew Bible, and by late antiquity the archangels Michael and Gabriel were as familiar as the patriarchs and matriarchs, guardian angels were as present as one's shadow, and praise of the seraphim was as sacred...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592644117Author Joseph Dov SoloveitchikFormat HardbackImprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press LtdWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 142mm * 18mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653017504Author Rabbi Marc AngelFormat HardbackImprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren PublishersWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 185mm * 127mm * 18mm

Scattered throughout the Talmud, the founding document of rabbinic Judaism in late antiquity, can be found quite a few references to Jesus--and they're not flattering. In this lucid, richly detailed, and accessible book, Peter Schafer examines how the...

Leaving a religion is not merely a matter of losing or rejecting faith. For many, it involves dramatic changes of everyday routines and personal habits. Davidman bases her analysis on in-depth conversations with forty ex-Hasidic individuals. From these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688163518Author Rabbi Joseph TelushkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperCollins (USA)Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

In these essays Deutscher speaks of the emotional heritage of the European Jew with calmness and clear-sightedness; as a historian he writes without anger but with compassion; as a non-Jewish Jew he writes without religious belief, but with a generous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986119613Author Samuel AvitalFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Le Centre Du SilencePublisher Le Centre Du SilenceWeight(grams) 880gDimensions(mm)...

The suicide of Joanne Limburg's beloved brother Julian left her shattered. When her mother dies too, Joanne pulls herself from the depths of grief by embarking on a journey of salvage, collecting up those scattered fragments of memory from her childhood...

From the bestselling author of Here I Am, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and We are the Weather - Jonathan Safran Foer presents a new edition of the sacred Jewish Haggadah Read each year around the Seder table, the Haggadah recounts through prayer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525510710Author Sarah HurwitzFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 556gDimensions(mm)...

Isaac Luria (1534-1572) is one of the most extraordinary and influential mystical figures in the history of Judaism, a visionary teacher who helped shape the course of nearly all subsequent Jewish mysticism. Given his importance, it is remarkable that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934730461Author Jill HammerPage Count 328Imprint Ben Yehuda PressPublisher Ben Yehuda Press

In this second volume of Liberal Jewish sermons spanning the greater part of the second half ofthe twentieth century, the author again combines a radically progressive stance with Jewish commitment and seeks to understand contemporary history from a...

When breakfast TV host and nation's darling Rosie Harper is found brutally murdered at home, suspicion falls on her spouse, formerly international football star, Danny 'walks on water' Mallard, now living out of the public eye as trans woman, Debbie. Not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725278608Author Harris BorFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578853673Author Rabbi Yacov BarberFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Gerber's Miracle Publishers LLCPublisher Gerber's Miracle Publishers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671873035Author Rabb GreenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Simon & Schuster LtdPublisher Simon & Schuster LtdWeight(grams) 586gDimensions(mm)...

It is commonly asserted that Maimonides' famous Thirteen Principles are the last word in Orthodox Jewish theology. This is a very popular notion, and is often repeated by scholars from all camps in Judaism. Yet such a position ignores the long history of...

This book explores one of the great questions of our time: How can we preserve our sense of what it means to be a person while at the same time accepting what science tells us to be true--namely, that human nature is continuous with the rest of nature?...

The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Theology offers an overview of Jewish theology, an aspect of Judaism that is equal in importance to law and ethics. Covering the period from antiquity to the present, the volume focuses on what Jews believe about God and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781387855124Author Rabbi Dovber Of LubavitchFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800699109Author George W. E. NickelsburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 169Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789657222126Author Yedidah CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint Nehora PressPublisher Nehora PressWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 152mm * 25mm

This is the first of two volumes of edited sermons spanning the greater part of the second half of the twentieth century, and the first major collection of sermons from a Liberal Jewish point ofview produced in Britain since Claude G. Montefiore's Truth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933580807Author Joseph B. LumpkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint Fifth Estate, IncPublisher Fifth Estate, IncWeight(grams) 578gDimensions(mm) 152mm...

The JPS Jewish Heritage Torah Commentary shows Jews of all ages and backgrounds that the Jewish people's most significant book is not dusty and irrelevant but an eternally sacred text wholly pertinent to our modern lives. Designed to keep the attention...

Judith Abrams, author of the highly acclaimed The Talmud for Beginners, Volumes I & II, creates yet another way of making Talmud study easy and accessible for the novice. Rabbi Abrams has chosen to work with the Steinsaltz Edition of the Talmud, edited...

Leonard Cohen's troubled relationship with God is here mapped onto his troubled relationships with sex and politics. Analysing Covenantal theology and its place in Cohen's work, this book is the first to trace a consistent theology across sixty years of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590306093Author Alan MorinisFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Trumpeter BooksPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805210507Author Martin BuberFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 221g

How do modern Jews understand virtues such as courage, humility, justice, solidarity, or love? In truth: they have fiercely debated how to interpret them. This groundbreaking anthology of musar (Jewish traditions regarding virtue and character) explores...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879045675Author Moshe MykoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingDimensions(mm) 114mm * 152mm...

The period immediately following World War II was an era of dramatic transformation for Jews in America. At the start of the 1940s, President Roosevelt had to all but promise that if Americans entered the war, it would not be to save the Jews. By the end...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486203515Author Moses MaimonidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 473Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802870834Author Anathea E. Portier-YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 462Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881233452Author Debra J RobbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Reform Judaism PublishingPublisher Reform Judaism PublishingWeight(grams)...

The first two volumes of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, translated with commentary by Daniel C. Matt, cover more than half of the Zohar's commentary on the Book of Genesis (through Genesis 32:3). This is the first translation ever made from a critical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985593391Author Rabbi David H SterneFormat HardbackPage Count 530Imprint Jerusalem ConnectionPublisher Jerusalem ConnectionWeight(grams) 1039g