Judaism

In 1756, Jacob Frank, an Ottoman Jew who had returned to the Poland of his birth, was discovered leading a group of fellow travelers in a suspect religious service. At the request of the local rabbis, Polish authorities arrested the participants. Jewish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597524131Author Professor of Religion Jacob NeusnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060926519Author Harold SchulweisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 200g

This book offers the first in-depth treatment of Jewish images of and behavior toward Blacks during the period of peak Jewish involvement in Atlantic slave-holding. Based on a wide-range of sources in several languages, many previously unexplored and...

Biblical Judgments invites readers to consider today's timeless dilemmas of law and government, social justice, and human rights, through the perspective of a text that has helped shape western society: the Hebrew Bible. By focusing on biblical...

This paperback edition brings to a wide audience one of the most innovative and meaningful models of God for this post-Auschwitz era. In a thought-provoking return to the original Hebrew conception of God, which questions accepted conceptions of divine...

National Jewish Book Award winner An internationally recognized scholar and theologian shares a Jewish mysticism for our times in this " humane, accessible " book (Publishers Weekly, Starred Review)"Green challenges traditional notions of God, Israel,...

This magisterial Norton Anthology, edited by world-renowned scholars, offers a portable library of more than 1,000 primary texts from the world’s major religions. To help readers encounter strikingly unfamiliar texts with pleasure; accessible...

In modern-day Ukraine, east of the Carpathian Mountains, there is an invisible city. Known as Czernowitz, the 'Vienna of the East' under the Habsburg empire, this vibrant Jewish-German Eastern European culture vanished after World War II - yet an...

In this provocative book, Marla Segol explores the development of the kabbalistic cosmology underlying Western sex magic. Drawing extensively on Jewish myth and ritual, Segol tells the powerful story of the relationship between the divine and the human...

In this new history, French author Georges Bensoussan retells the story of what life was like for Jews in the Arab world since 1850. During the early years of this time, it was widely believed that Jewish life in Arab lands was peaceful. Jews were...

The ancient Israelites believed things that the writers of the Bible wanted them to forget: myths and legends from a pre-biblical world that the new monotheist order needed to bury, hide, or reinterpret. Ancient Israel was rich in such literary...

Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Radiance) has amazed readers ever since it emerged in medieval Spain over seven hundred years ago. Written in lyrical Aramaic, this masterpiece of Kabbalah exceeds the dimensions of a normal book; it is virtually a body of...

Beginning with a startling endorsement of the patristic view of Judaism - that it was a 'carnal' religion, in contrast to the spiritual vision of the Church - Daniel Boyarin argues that rabbinic Judaism was based on a set of assumptions about the human...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615944562Author Netanel Miles-YepezFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Albion-Andalus BooksPublisher Albion-Andalus BooksWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101875186Author Graciela MochkofskyFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 143g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653015791Author Rabbi Adin SteinsaltzFormat HardbackImprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren Publishers

This superb collection presents more than forty incisive portraits of leading Jewish thinkers, artists, scientists, and other public figures of the last hundred years who, in their own unique ways, engaged with and helped shape the modern world. Makers...

The factionalism and denominationalism of modern Jewry makes it supremely difficult to create a definition of the Jewish people. Instead of serving as a uniting force around which community is formed, Judaism has itself become a source of divisions...

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)...

In The Heart of Torah, Rabbi Shai Held's Torah essays-two for each weekly portion-open new horizons in Jewish biblical commentary. Held probes the portions in bold, original, and provocative ways. He mines Talmud and midrashim, great writers of world...

The Origins of Jewish Mysticism offers the first in-depth look at the history of Jewish mysticism from the book of Ezekiel to the Merkavah mysticism of late antiquity. The Merkavah movement is widely recognized as the first full-fledged expression of...

Conceptions of "the self" have received significant recent attention in philosophy, anthropology, and cultural history. Scholars argue that the introspective self of the modern West is a distinctive phenomenon that cannot be projected back onto...

Based on a previously unexplored source, this book transforms the way we think about the formation of Jewish identity This book tells the story of the earliest Jewish diaspora in Egypt in a way it has never been told before. In the fifth century BCE...

A Top Ten Book for Parish Ministry from the Academy of Parish Clergy Who-or what-is God? Is God like a person? Does God have a gender? Does God have a special relationship with the Jewish people? Does God intervene in our lives? Is God good-and, if yes,...

Although the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, has been a text central and vital to the Jewish canon since the Middle Ages, the context in which it was produced has been poorly understood. Delving deep into Sasanian material culture and literary remains, Shai...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578441160Author Matthew SchaikewitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 466Imprint Ammud PressPublisher Ammud PressWeight(grams) 617gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

In A Reader of Ancient Near Eastern Texts: Sources for the Study of the Old Testament, leading biblical scholar Michael D. Coogan presents a collection of texts that introduce students to the larger world surrounding the Old Testament. Dating from the...

In this wide-ranging discussion of Kabbalah-from the mystical trends of medieval Judaism to modern Hasidism-one of the world's foremost scholars considers different visions of the nature of the sacred text and of the methods to interpret it. Moshe Idel...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990515555Author Jessica Tamar DeutschFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Print-O-Craft PressPublisher Print-O-Craft PressWeight(grams)...

Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Radiance) has amazed readers ever since it emerged in medieval Spain over seven hundred years ago. Written in lyrical Aramaic, this masterpiece of Kabbalah exceeds the dimensions of a normal book; it is virtually a body of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653015722Author Rabbi Adin SteinsaltzFormat HardbackImprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren Publishers

One of America's foremost scholars of religion examines the tumultuous era that gave birth to the modern Judeo-Christian traditionIn The Crucible of Faith, Philip Jenkins argues that much of the Judeo-Christian tradition we know today was born between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874416855Author Elie GindiFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Behrman House PublishingPublisher Behrman House PublishingWeight(grams) 159g

Until now, few primary texts on the Kabbalah have been available in English. Under the auspices of the Bronfman Library of Jewish Classics, this historic publicatin of Gates of Light allows readers to enter the hidden world of the Kabbalah and its...

Sephardic Jews trace their origins to Spain and Portugal. They enjoyed a renaissance in these lands until their expulsion from Spain in 1492, when they settled in the countries along the Mediterranean, throughout the Ottoman Empire, in the Balkans, and...

Only one of the world's mythologies has remained essentially unrecognized--the mythology of Judaism. As Howard Schwartz reveals in Tree of Souls, the first anthology of Jewish mythology in English, this mythical tradition is as rich and as fascinating as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824604806Author Rabbi Maurice LammFormat PaperbackImprint Jonathan David Co., IncPublisher Jonathan David Co., IncWeight(grams) 454g

The Kennicott Bible is among the most celebrated Hebrew Bibles that survive from the Middle Ages. Originating from La Corun a in northern Spain, it features lavish carpet pages, gold leaf silhouettes and abundant marginal decorations. This extraordinary...