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Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests examines the impact of the Persian Sasanian context on the Babylonian Talmud, perhaps the most important corpus in the Jewish sacred canon. What impact did the Persian Zoroastrian Empire, as both a real historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088050705Author Michael E HarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Hasidism, a movement many believed had passed its golden age, has had an extraordinary revival since it was nearly decimated in the Holocaust and repressed in the Soviet Union. Hasidic communities, now settled primarily in North America and Israel, have...

Placing himself within the context of the Gospel of Matthew, Neusner imagines himself in a dialogue with Jesus of Nazareth and pays him the supreme Judaic gesture of respect: making a connection with him through an honest debate about the nature of God's...

As a young man Meron Benvenisti often accompanied his father, a distinguished geographer, when the elder Benvenisti traveled through the Holy Land charting a Hebrew map that would rename Palestinian sites and villages with names linked to Israel's...

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...

Although Paul's writings have been intensively studied by Christian theologians, they have been dismissed by Jewish scholars as the meditations of an antagonistic apostate who broke completely with his Jewish past. In this revisionist account of Paul's...

Filled with practical advice as well as history, Blu Greenberg's book is a comprehensive guide to the joys and complexities of running a modern Jewish home. How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household is a modern, comprehensive guide covering virtually...

The works of Philo of Alexandria, a slightly older contemporary of Jesus and Paul, constitute an essential source for the study of Judaism and the rise of Christianity. They are also of extreme importance for understanding the Greek philosophy of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580236287Author Rabbi Bradley Shavit ArtsonFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams) 1g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948626026Author Tirzah FirestoneFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Monkfish Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Monkfish Book Publishing...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580234948Author Arthur GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams) 1g

How does this Jewish history book differ from all others? Instead of burdening the reader with endless details about every single aspect of Jewish history, Pasachoff and Littman provide essential information, easily digested by readers of all ages, that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683366706Author Barry W. HoltzFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights Publishing

Food often defines societies and even civilizations. Through particular commensality restrictions, groups form distinct identities: those with whom 'we' eat ('us') and those with whom 'we' cannot eat ('them'). This identity is enacted daily, turning the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316955140Author Hermon WoukFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 469g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228853008Author David WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

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...

Does modernity trample on tradition, or can it in fact be a vehicle for the sacred?How can one determine whether an interpretation is legitimate, anachronistic or corrupted?Does sexual obsession have a textual origin, and is it woman's destiny to be...

The Israeli kibbutz, the twentieth century's most interesting social experiment, is in the throes of change. Instrumental in establishing the State of Israel, defending its borders, creating its agriculture and industry, and setting its social norms, the...

"An engaging introduction to the tortuous plight faced by exiled conversos in Amsterdam and their methods of response. Choicet; In this skillful and well-argued book Miriam Bodian explores the communal history of the Portuguese Jews . . . who settled in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802873156Author Loren T. StuckenbruckFormat PaperbackPage Count 427Imprint 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 9780805210231Author Nahum M. SarnaFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 300g

Yahweh is the proper name of the biblical God. His early character is central to understanding the foundations of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic monotheism. As a deity, the name appears only in connection with the peoples of the Hebrew Bible, but long...

"William McCagg has done a great service for scholarship-and for Habsburg scholarship in particular-through his book. Scholars are in his debt." -History of European Ideas" . . . strongly recommended to those interested in either Jewish or Habsburg...

Yahweh is the proper name of the biblical God. His early character is central to understanding the foundations of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic monotheism. As a deity, the name appears only in connection with the peoples of the Hebrew Bible, but long...

Relations between Christians and Jews over the past two thousand years have been characterised to a great extent by mutual distrust and by Christian discrimination and violence against Jews. In recent decades, however, a new spirit of dialogue has been...

Hailed by philosopher Martin Buber as "the true teacher", pioneer, philosopher and dreamer, Aharon David Gordon (1856--1922) is increasingly being recognized as the first Jewish environmentalist. Long before global warming became a major threat, Gordon...

Thisvolume in the Studying World Religionsseries is an essential guide to the study of Judaism. Clearly structured tocover all the major areas of study, including historical foundations,scripture, worship, society, material culture, thought and ethics,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910170335Author Leon RosselsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications

Hasidism, a movement many believed had passed its golden age, has had an extraordinary revival since it was nearly decimated in the Holocaust and repressed in the Soviet Union. Hasidic communities, now settled primarily in North America and Israel, have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879007345Author Lucien RegnaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint St Bede's Publications,U.S.Publisher St Bede's Publications,U.S.

This is the only complete English translation of the classic Jewish text known as Ein Yaakov. Ein Yaakov is a collection of all the agaddah (the non-legal) material of the Talmud, compiled by Rabbi Yaakov ibn Chaviv, the fifteenth century talmudist...

This book considers the early history of Jewish-Christian relations focussing on traditions about the fallen angels. In the Book of the Watchers, an Enochic apocalypse from the third century BCE, the 'sons of God' of Gen 6:1-4 are accused of corrupting...

In this unique collection of essays, some of today's smartest Jewish thinkers explore a broad range of fundamental questions in an effort to balance ancient tradition and modern sexuality In the last few decades a number of factors-post-modernism,...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060082710Author Tirzah FirestoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperCollins (USA)Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580233965Author Kerry M. OlitzkyFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingDimensions(mm) 164mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824604745Author Mark WischnitzerFormat HardbackPage Count 356Imprint Jonathan David Co., IncPublisher Jonathan David Co., IncWeight(grams) 689g