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In this book, which is a successor to Hear Our Voice: Women Rabbis Tell their Stories, published by SCM Press in 1994, women rabbis give new understanding to old liturgy by using prayer and biblical verse in new contexts, and create new rituals to cover...

In this fascinating piece of scholarly detective work, biblical scholar Savina J. Teubal peels away millenia of patriarchal distortion to reveal the lost tradition of biblical matriarchs. In Ancient Sisterhood: The Lost Traditions of Hagar and Sarah...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532607769Author Jeremy D LyonFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

The history of the Jews of Spain is a remarkable story that begins in the remote past and continues today. For more than a thousand years, Sepharad (the Hebrew word for Spain) was home to a large Jewish community noted for its richness and virtuosity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951168612Author Yosef Ben YosefFormat HardbackPage Count 716Imprint Restoration Scriptures FoundationPublisher Restoration Scriptures...

Most people understand Judaism to be the Torah and the Torah to be Judaism. However, in The Invention of Judaism, John J. Collins persuasively argues this was not always the case. The Torah became the touchstone for most of Judaism's adherents only in...

'Leonard Cohen taught us that even in the midst of darkness there is light, in the midst of hatred there is love, with our dying breath we can still sing Hallelujah.' - The late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks 'Among the finest volumes on Cohen’s life and...

In this, Geza Vermes' best known book, there emerges perhaps the closest portrayal that we have of a genuinely historical Jesus. Freed from the weight and onus of Christian doctrine or Jewish animus, Jesus here appears as a vividly human, yet profoundly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583303368Author Rabbi Ben Tzion ShafierFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Feldheim PublishersPublisher Feldheim PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580230957Author Rifat SonsinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams)...

Interest in Leo Strauss is greater now than at any time since his death, mostly because of the purported link between his thought and the political movement known as neoconservatism. Steven B. Smith, though, surprisingly depicts Strauss not as the high...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683363446Author Rabbi Lawrence KushnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592644490Author Rabbi Jonathan SacksFormat HardbackImprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press LtdWeight(grams) 612g

In War Against the Jews: How to End Hamas Barbarism, Alan Dershowitz-#1 New York Times bestselling author and one of America's most respected legal scholars-explains why the horrific attack of Oct 7 and Israel's just response changes everything. It has...

"The reissue of Guttmann's edition of Rabin's translation is a welcome event. There has long been a need for a readable, judicious edition, for classroom use, of this large and complex work." --Michael L. Morgan, Indiana UniversityAbout the AuthorDaniel...

A unique compilation of contemporary women's midrashim. Dirshuni: Contemporary Women's Midrash, is the first-ever English edition of a historic collection of midrashim composed by Israeli women, which has been long-anticipated by multiple American...

In 2020 and 2021, at the height of the Covid pandemic, Gwrych Castle was familiar to the British public as the setting of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! Lesser known is that, at the beginning of the Second World War, this once-grand country house...

Was Jesus of Nazareth a real historical person or a fictional character in a religious legend? What do the Dead Sea Scrolls reveal about the origins of Christianity? Has there been a conspiracy to suppress information in the Scrolls that contradicts...

This book tells the story of the mystical Jewish system known as Kabbalah, from its earliest origins until the present day. We trace Kabbalah's development, from the second century visionaries who visited the divine realms and brought back tales of...

An essential biography of one of the Bible's most powerful and inspiring booksExodus is the second book of the Hebrew Bible, but it may rank first in lasting cultural importance. It is here that the classic biblical themes of oppression and redemption,...

Britain's greatest religious historian chronicles the rise and rise of fundamentalism. One of the most potent forces bedevilling the modern world is religious extremism, and the need to understand it has never been greater. Focusing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532692659Author John DayFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951244071Author Yazir NitzanyFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Yatir NitzanyPublisher Yatir Nitzany

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592645688Author David FohrmanFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press Ltd

This volume addresses the complex topic of the preeminent status of the divine feminine power, to be referred also as Female, within the theosophical structures of many important Kabbalists, Sabbatean believers, and Hasidic masters. This privileged...

The #1 bestselling inspirational classic from the internationally known spiritual leader; a source of solace and hope for over 4 million readers.Since its original publication in 1981, When Bad Things Happen to Good People has brought solace and hope to...

'Nothing I have read is more affecting than Mihail Sebastian's magnificent, haunting 1934 novel, For Two Thousand Years' - Philippe Sands, Guardian Books of the YearA prescient interwar masterpiece, available in English for the first time'Absolutely,...

Revered by many fundamentalist Shiites and reviled by the West, Hezbollah is considered to be a paradigm for other militant groups wishing to make the promise of Islamic Revolution a reality. Journalist Hala Jaber was granted exclusive and unparalleled...

Judaism and Modernity: Philosophical Essays challenges the philosophical presentation of Judaism as the sublime 'other' of modernity. Here, Gillian Rose develops a philosophical alternative to deconstruction and post-modernism by critically re-engaging...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671602703Author Blu GreenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 530Imprint Simon & Schuster LtdPublisher Simon & Schuster Ltd

An authoritative and unrivalled work on these three important groups which played such a vital role in the ministry of Jesus and in Jewish life.Book InformationISBN 9780802843586Author Anthony SaldariniFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint T.& T.Clark...

In this book contemporary Judaism is presented in all its rich diversity, including both traditional and modern theologies as well as secular forms of Jewish identity. While the focus of the book is on developments that have taken place in the past two...

Named one of Library Journal's Best Religion & Spirituality Books of the YearAn Unorthodox Guide to Everything Jewish Deeply knowing, highly entertaining, and just a little bit irreverent, this unputdownable encyclopedia of all things Jewish and Jew-ish...

"These are pages that one reads with almost physical pain. . .all the way to its stoic conclusion." -Primo Levi"The testimony of a profoundly serious man. . . . In its every turn and crease, it bears the marks of the true." -Irving Howe, New...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950170234Author Sarah MazorFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint MazorbooksPublisher MazorbooksWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 6mm

Scholarship in the Hebrew Scriptures is more bountiful and diverse than ever before, a situation that presents a formidable challenge to the student trying to understand the critical issues in Hebrew Bible study. This book deals with each section of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825429248Author Josephus FlaviusFormat HardbackPage Count 1144Imprint Kregel Publications,U.S.Publisher Kregel Publications,U.S.Weight(grams) 1383g

From Simon & Schuster, Beginning Anew is Gail Twersky Reimer and Judith A. Kates' companion, for woman, to the high Holy Days.In Beginning Anew Gail Twersky Reimer and Judith A. Kates' provides an anthology of women's spiritual writing for Rosh Hashana...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528709767Author Arthur Edward WaiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Michele Guinness was brought up to observe all the traditions and ritual of her Jewish culture. But in her teens she found something lacking. When she encountered a Christian it raised questions in her own mind, and she turned to the Bible for answers...