Judaism

Many Jewish people know the New Testament only through snippets of verse heard at a Christian wedding or funeral, or through a chapter read in literature class. Many are completely unfamiliar with the meaning or messages of Christian scripture and...

A detailed exploration of the biblical idea of the Messiah and its development over three thousand years.Book InformationISBN 9780567085863Author Dan Cohn-SherbokFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint T.& T.Clark LtdPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692047453Author Michel AbehseraFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Swanhouse PressPublisher Swanhouse PressWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

While Scripture is at the center of many religions, among them Islam and Christianity, this book inquires into the function, development, and implications of the centrality of text upon the Jewish community, and by extension on the larger question of...

A groundbreaking reexamination of the Holocaust and of how Germans understood their genocidal project Why exactly did the Nazis burn the Hebrew Bible everywhere in Germany on November 9, 1938? The perplexing event has not been adequately accounted for by...

2022 Top Five Reference Book from Academy of Parish Clergy The most comprehensive book on the topic, Thinking about Good and Evil traces the most salient Jewish ideas about why innocent people seem to suffer, why evil individuals seem to prosper, and...

Millions of American Christians see U.S. support for the State of Israel as a God-ordained responsibility. Millions more see the ''special relationship'' between the two countries as a bond that should never be challenged, much less broken. Robert O...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989007214Author Dovber PinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Iyyun PublishingPublisher Iyyun PublishingWeight(grams) 585gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Frumspeak examines the unique linguistic habits of Orthodox, native-born Americans. This book seeks to draw comparisons with parallel phenomena of Jewish linguistic creation including Yiddish and Ladino and reaches into the linguistic consciousness of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374506087Author Abraham Joshua HeschelFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

A Year with the Sages uniquely relates the Sages' understanding of each Torah portion to everyday life. The importance of these teachings cannot be overstated. The Sages, who lived during the period from the fifth century BCE to the fifth century CE,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807407028Author Mark WashofskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 497Imprint UAHC PressPublisher UAHC Press

For five horrifying years in Vilna, the Vilna ghetto, and concentration camps in Estonia, Herman Kruk recorded his own experiences as well as the life and death of the Jewish community of the city symbolically called "The Jerusalem of Lithuania...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580232296Author Howard A. AddisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976986232Author Abraham, Isaac KookFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Ben Yehuda PressPublisher Ben Yehuda PressWeight(grams) 341gDimensions(mm) 152mm...

An in-depth analysis of an anti-semitic conspiracy theory, from its origins in the 20th century to its resurgence today The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, first published in Russia around 1905, claimed to be the captured secret protocols from the...

This book-length meditation on the Hebrew alphabet offers profound insights into many important ideas found in Jewish thought. From time immemorial, the Hebrew alphabet has been considered to be more than a collection of individual letters. Indeed, the...

Justice for All demonstrates that the Jewish Bible, by radically changing the course of ethical thought, came to exercise enormous influence on Jewish thought and law and also laid the basis for Christian ethics and the broader development of modern...

In the Zohar, the jewel in the crown of Jewish mystical literature, the verse "A river flows from Eden to water the garden" (Genesis 2:10) symbolizes the river of divine plenty that unceasingly flows from the depths of divinity into the garden of reality...

"Cohen and Eisen have written that rare work, a book that really matters! With clarity and grace, The Jew Within tells the story of how American Jews live and understand their Judaism over the span of their lives, in their families, and among their...

Distilling the teachings and thought of Rabbi Simha Bunim, one of the foremost figures in the Przysucha school of Hasidism, this study sheds light both on what students of the Pryzsucha tradition believed as well as on its influence on Polish Hasidism at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683366737Author Rabbi Anne BrenerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580233514Author Norman J. CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights Publishing

Above the Zodiac: Astrology in Jewish Thought uncovers the profound connection between Jewish mysticism and classic astrology by citing the many references scattered throughout Jewish literature to the influence of the stars on human destiny. Rabbi...

This volume introduces students of rabbinic literature to the range of historical and interpretative questions surrounding the rabbinic texts of late antiquity. The editors, themselves well-known interpreters of Rabbinic literature, have gathered an...

Keter is a close reading of fifty relatively brief Jewish texts, tracing the motif of divine coronation from Jewish esoteric writings of late antiquity to the Zohar, written in thirteenth-century Spain. In the course of this investigation Arthur Green...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580233415Author Marc D. AngelFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingDimensions(mm) 218mm * 142mm...

"Adventures in Yiddishland" examines the transformation of Yiddish in the six decades since the Holocaust, tracing its shift from the language of daily life for millions of Jews to what the author terms a postvernacular language of diverse and expanding...

Isaac's Fear is a wide-ranging study of a Hebrew encyclopedia of Judaism by Isaac Lampronti, a rabbi and physician from eighteenth-century Ferrara, in Italy; this is the first encyclopedia of Judaism, with entries on thought and praxis. The book's eight...

Piety and Rebellion examines the span of the Hasidic textual tradition from its earliest phases to the 20th century. The essays collected in this volume focus on the tension between Hasidic fidelity to tradition and its rebellious attempt to push the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985201180Author Dovber PinsonFormat HardbackImprint Iyyun PublishingPublisher Iyyun PublishingWeight(grams) 435g

The life and times of an enduring work of Jewish spiritualityThe Babylonian Talmud, a postbiblical Jewish text that is part scripture and part commentary, is an unlikely bestseller. Written in a hybrid of Hebrew and Aramaic, it is often ambiguous to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652292889Author Jerry RabowFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 432g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590303665Author Alan MorinisFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams) 283g

A National Jewish Book Award Finalist The haftarot are an ancient part of Hebrew liturgy. These supplemental readings are excerpted from the Prophets (Nevi'im) and accompany each weekly Sabbath reading from the Torah as well as readings for special...

Following a detailed introduction to the world of messianic ideology and its significance in Jewish history, The Messiah Texts traces the progress of the messianic legend from its biblical beginnings to contemporary expressions. Renowned scholar Raphael...

This book examines the ways in which two distinct biblical conceptions of impurity-"ritual" and "moral"-were interpreted in the Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, rabbinic literature, and the New Testament. In examining the evolution...

Spurred by a curiosity about Daf Yomi-a study program launched in the 1920s in which Jews around the world read one page of the Talmud every day for 2,711 days, or about seven and a half years-Adam Kirsch approached Tablet magazine to write a weekly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653015883Author Rabbi Adin SteinsaltzFormat HardbackImprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912676583Author Derek TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd