Sacred Writings

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653018945Author Koren PublishersFormat PaperbackImprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren PublishersWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm) 193mm * 142mm * 41mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789655262605Author Eitam HenkinFormat HardbackPage Count 413Imprint Toby Publishing Ltd.Publisher Toby Publishing Ltd.Weight(grams) 816gDimensions(mm) 241mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789655261875Author Yeshivat Har Etzion RabbisFormat HardbackImprint Toby Publishing Ltd.Publisher Toby Publishing Ltd.Weight(grams) 907gDimensions(mm) 236mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613290101Author Yehivat Har EtzionFormat HardbackPage Count 490Imprint Koren Publishers JerusalemPublisher Koren Publishers Jerusalem

Understanding the sacred text has been a wonderful yet elusive challenge through the ages. This book is a reading of the Bible, accessible to readers of all backgrounds and levels of familiarity with the biblical text. In contrast to previous works on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878204113Author Hebrew Union College PressFormat HardbackPage Count 215Imprint Hebrew Union College Press,U.S.Publisher Hebrew Union College Press,U.S...

In Enchanted Dulcinea, this English translation of the novel by Mexican author Angelina Muniz-Huberman, Dulcinea travels in a car writing novels in her mind about several Dulcineas: a medieval princess on a quest, a nineteenth-century lady-in-waiting in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580238557Author Rabbi Marc D. AngelFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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"Torah, as both book and process, is the taproot that penetrates to the heart of Jewish meaning, understanding, and expression. Torah study is how we mine not just meaning from the text, but our awareness of God's will," writes Rabbi Daniel Pressman in...

"Torah, as both book and process, is the taproot that penetrates to the heart of Jewish meaning, understanding, and expression. Torah study is how we mine not just meaning from the text, but our awareness of God's will," writes Rabbi Daniel Pressman in...

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...

This is a comprehensive and systematic exploration of myth in the Hebrew Bible. In addition, Michael Fishbane examines the ongoing role of Scripture in the expansion and transformation of myth in ancient Jewish sources (Midrash and Talmud) and in the...

Although the theme of bloodied nuptial sheets seems pervasive in western culture, its association with female virginity is uniquely tied to a brief passage in the book of Deuteronomy detailing the procedure for verifying a young woman's purity and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897448519Author Rabbi Baruch Ashlag, (The Rabash)Format HardbackPage Count 440Imprint Laitman Kabbalah PublishersPublisher Laitman Kabbalah...

In a major departure from previous scholarship, this volume argues that the illustrations in the famous and widely influential Utrecht Psalter manuscript were inspired by a late antique Hebrew version of Psalms, rather than a Latin, Christian version of...

Scriptural Exegesis gathers voices from an international community of scholars to consider the many facets of the history of biblical interpretation and to question how exegesis shapes spiritual and cultural creativity. Divided into four broadly...

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...

Leading scholars have combined forces to produce this volume on the philosophy and legal views of Moses Maimonides (1138-1204) and the historical context in which he worked. The philosophical section examines Maimonides' ethical doctrine; his...

This study explores the zoomorphic content of Zibburta (bee/wasp) and Karkusta (weasel)-demeaning names given by R. Nahman of b. Meg 14b to Deborah and Huldah, two distinguished prophets of the Hebrew Bible. Looking closely at relevant texts, Blazenka...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802864352Author James C. VanderKamFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652294128Author Rabbi Shmuel GoldenFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 736g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652295927Author Rabbi Ari KahnFormat HardbackPage Count 241Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 634g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652295255Author Rabbi Shmuel GoldinFormat HardbackPage Count 233Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 898g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989852699Author Scriptural Research InstituteFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Digital Ink ProductionsPublisher Digital Ink ProductionsWeight(grams)...

Turn Aside from Evil and Do Good was written by Zevi Hirsch Eichenstein (1763–1831), a hasidic master and renowned adept in Lurianic kabbalah. He wrote it with the intention of providing a guide to would-be hasidic kabbalists on how to live a holy life...

In the late eighteenth century, German Jews began entering the middle class with remarkable speed. That upward mobility, it has often been said, coincided with Jews' increasing alienation from religion and Jewish nationhood. In fact, Michah Gottlieb...

Web of Life weaves its suggestive interpretation of Jewish culture in the Palestine of late antiquity on the warp of a singular, breathtakingly tragic, and sublime rabbinic text, Lamentations Rabbah. The textual analyses that form the core of the book...

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...

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...

In Rabbinic Tales of Destruction, Julia Watts Belser examines early Jewish accounts of the Roman conquest of Judea from the perspective of the wounded body and the scarred land. Faced with stories saturated with sexual violence, enslavement, forced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592644513Author Yitzhak FrankFormat HardbackImprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press LtdWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 160mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653013179Author Rabbi Jonathan SacksFormat HardbackImprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren Publishers

Night of Beginnings is a groundbreaking new haggadah for the Passover seder from acclaimed poet, translator, and liturgist Marcia Falk, beautifully designed and illustrated with original color drawings by the author. Unlike both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Jewish Book Award (Jewish Life) 2014.Book InformationISBN 9781592643516Author Shlomo BrodyFormat HardbackImprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press Ltd

Because a welter of details sometimes conceals the Torah's aura of holiness, Jewish mystics and spiritual teachers for centuries have attempted to reveal that aura through creative interpretation. The Aura of Torah explores these attempts in an effort to...

Dennis Prager, author of the bestselling Rational Bible commentaries, turns to the Haggadah, the book used for the most widely celebrated Jewish ritual, the Passover Seder. (Like most Haggadahs, the Rational Passover Haggadah is printed in the Hebrew...