Judaism

In this now-classic work, E. P. Sanders argues against prevailing views regarding the Judaism of the Second Temple period, for example, that the Pharisees dominated Jewish Palestine or that the Mishnah offers a description of general practice. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312420178Author Jonathan RosenFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060930851Author Rebbetzin JungreisFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm)...

The Star of Redemption is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding religion and philosophy. Fusing philosophy and theology, the book assigns both Judaism and Christianity distinct but equally important roles in the spiritual structure of...

With the publication of The Origins of the Kabbalah in 1950, one of the most important scholars of our century brought the obscure world of Jewish mysticism to a wider audience for the first time. A crucial work in the oeuvre of Gershom Scholem, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805209952Author Martin BuberFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 601gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm *...

'The only force equal to a fundamentalism of hate is a counter-fundamentalism of love.' Jonathan Sacks is an outstanding moral authority of our time and best-selling author of The Dignity of Difference. One of Judaism's most distinctive and...

Landes, a medievalist and historian of apocalyptic movements, takes us through the first years of the third millennium (2000-2003), documenting how a radical inability of Westerners to understand the medieval mentality that drove Global Jihad...

Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Radiance) has amazed and overwhelmed readers ever since it emerged mysteriously in medieval Spain toward the end of the thirteenth century. Written in a unique, lyrical Aramaic, this masterpiece of Kabbalah exceeds the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495822902Author Pnei HashemFormat HardbackPage Count 460Imprint Visage BooksPublisher Visage BooksWeight(grams) 844gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 30mm

Brutally honest, beautifully written, THE RABBI'S DAUGHTER is the compulsive story of a woman trying to find love, and struggling to make peace with her faith, her parents, and ultimately herself.Reva Mann was a wild child. Granddaughter of the Chief...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510780521Author Alan DershowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Hot BooksPublisher Hot BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947857728Author Alec GoldsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Kodesh PressPublisher Kodesh PressWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

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Changing the Immutable focuses on how segments of Orthodox society have taken upon themselves to rewrite the past, by covering up and literally cutting out that which does not fit in with their contemporary world-view. For reasons ranging from...

This work, by the author of "Who Wrote the Bible?" probes a chain of mysteries that concern the presence or absence of God. It begins with a reading of the Hebrew Bible, revealing the mystery and significance of the disappearance of God there. Why does...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592645695Author David FohrmanFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press LtdWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 147mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933121409Author Yosef Ben-JochannanFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Black Classic Press,U.S.Publisher Black Classic Press,U.S.

Louis Jacobs was Britain's most gifted Jewish scholar. A Talmudic genius, outstanding teacher and accomplished author, cultured and easy-going, he was widely expected to become Britain's next Chief Rabbi. Then controversy struck. The Chief Rabbi...

The crucial question for today's Jewish world, Menachem Kellner argues, is not whether Jews will have Jewish grandchildren, but how many different sorts of mutually exclusive Judaisms those grandchildren will face. Kellner's short, brisk, and...

This book offers an account of the 4,000-year history of the Jews, from the ancient Patriarchs and Kings through to modern times. It also explores the Jewish faith, its traditional beliefs and practices, its festivals and celebrations, and the way of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979917660Author Benjamin FreedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 117Imprint Bridger House Publications Inc.Publisher Bridger House Publications Inc...

The Zohar is the great medieval compendium of Jewish esoteric and mystical teaching, and the basis of the kabbalistic faith. It is, however, a notoriously difficult text, full of hidden codes, concealed meanings, obscure symbols, and ecstatic expression...

'...detailed and fair.' - The Spectator 'An exhaustive, impressive achievement.' - The Tablet As a minority, Jews in Britain are confident, their institutions competent and mature. And yet within Jewish life in Britain there is a pervading sense of...

The translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek was the first major translation in Western culture. Its significance was far-reaching. Without a Greek Bible, European history would have been entirely different - no Western Jewish diaspora and no...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922428042Author Adonijah OgbonnayaFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Seraph CreativePublisher Seraph CreativeWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

New in the acclaimed Jewish Lives series: A biography of the rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, who became a symbol of the marriage between religion and social justice "Zelizer's book is absolutely riveting, both as a study of a truly important figure within...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580233705Author Rabbi Elyse GoldsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams) 1g

According to the Zohar, among Gods first creations were the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Kabbalah teaches that the alphabet, called ivrit in Hebrew, comes from the root word lavir, or to transfer. Far more than simple symbols of communication, the...

Postmodernity marks a time of creative conflict when the voices of the other, previously rendered silent by the majority, are prominently heard. What effect has postmodernism had on Judaism? The neat narratives and metanarratives of the Jewish past are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592646081Author Ezra BickFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947907096Author Lazare LenainFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Rose Circle PublicationsPublisher Rose Circle PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478388913Author Rabbi Meir KahaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm)...

The Living Faiths series encourages students to actively engage with religious education by looking into how faiths are practised and lived in people's daily lives. This Student Book covers Judaism through unique real-life case studies of young people...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628370188Author David T RuniaFormat HardbackPage Count 286Imprint Society of Biblical LiteraturePublisher Society of Biblical LiteratureWeight(grams)...

A Rabbi Reads the Torah distils a lifetime of Bible study by a Jewish scholar devoted to popularising the study of the Hebrew Bible in its original language, helped by the wealth of centuries of Jewish interpretation and debate, as well as the best of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807010518Author Danya RuttenbergFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683362098Author Rabbi Lawrence A. HoffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights Publishing

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...

More than ever, young people today are searching for a sense of purpose and direction. Advances in science and technology have given our generation opportunities our grandparents could only dream of, yet our need for meaning and values is more...