Sacred Writings

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897448595Author Rav Michael LaitmanFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Laitman Kabbalah PublishersPublisher Laitman Kabbalah PublishersWeight(grams) 832g

Jewish Bible Translations is the first book to examine Jewish Bible translations from the third century BCE to our day. It is an overdue corrective of an important story that has been regularly omitted or downgraded in other histories of Bible...

Gain entrance to the world of Rashi via a wide-ranging introduction and a thorough explication of one of his most important commentaries.-Isaac Gottlieb, Review of Biblical Literature In 2004, Mayer Gruber's landmarkRashi's Commentary on Psalms made one...

A JPS classic reissue of this great work of Midrash Long known only to scholars and specialists, Pesikta de-Rab Kahana is a masterpiece of midrashic literature. A collection of discourses for special Sabbaths and festival days compiled and organized...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780918986634Author M. O. WiseFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Oriental Institute of the University of ChicagoPublisher Oriental Institute of the...

Over the centuries, Jewish and Muslim writers transformed the biblical Queen of Sheba from a clever, politically astute sovereign to a demonic force threatening the boundaries of gender. In this book, Jacob Lassner shows how successive retellings of the...

Between 1780 and 1937, Jews in Germany produced numerous new translations of the Hebrew Bible into German. Intended for Jews who were trilingual, reading Yiddish, Hebrew, and German, they were meant less for religious use than to promote educational and...

This book invites readers to reconsider what they think they know about the opening chapters of the Book of Genesis, from the creation of the world, through the Garden of Eden, Cain and Abel, the Flood, and the Tower of Babel, to the introduction of...

The Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of 972 documents discovered between 1946 and 1956, are of immeasurable religious and historical significance. They include the oldest known surviving copies of Biblical-era documents. The manuscripts shed considerable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897448496Author Rav Michael LaitmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint Laitman Kabbalah PublishersPublisher Laitman Kabbalah PublishersWeight(grams)...

In Conceiving Israel, Gwynn Kessler examines the peculiar fascination of the rabbis of late antiquity with fetuses-their generation, development, nurturance, and even prenatal study habits-as expressed in narrative texts preserved in the Palestinian...

An intellectually stimulating and personally uplifting exploration of Genesis. Genesis: the Beginning of Desire breathes new life into the stories of Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac, Jacob and Esau, Rachel, and Joseph. Zornberg brings...