Talmud

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592643981Author Gabriel H CohnFormat HardbackImprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press LtdWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 150mm * 41mm

The Essential Talmud is a masterful introduction to the beliefs, attitudes, and methods of the sacred text by which the Jewish people have lived and survived through the ages-by the renowned Israeli rabbi, scholar, and teacher. Rabbi Steinsaltz is the...

The Talmud is one of the most significant religious texts in the world, second only to the Bible in its importance to Judaism. As the Bible is the word of God, The Talmud applies that word to the lives of its followers. In a range of styles including...

Why did no other ancient society produce something like the Bible? That a tiny, out of the way community could have created a literary corpus so determinative for peoples across the globe seems improbable. For Jacob Wright, the Bible is not only a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498200837Author Professor of Religion Jacob NeusnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock...

An easy-to-understand introduction to Judaism's most sacred text The foundation of Hebrew and Jewish religion, thought, law, and society is the Torah-the parchment scroll containing the text of the Five Books of Moses that is located in every synagogue...

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The Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation of Jewish sacred writings) is of great importance in the history of both Judaism and Christianity. The first translation of the books of the Hebrew Bible (plus additions) into the common language of the...

Since their discovery in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have become an icon in popular culture that transcends their status as ancient Jewish manuscripts. Everyone has heard of the Scrolls, but amidst the conspiracies, the politics, and the sensational...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652299130Author Rabbi Ari Zeev SchwartzFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 394g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891306153Author Michael A MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Society of Biblical LiteraturePublisher Society of Biblical LiteratureWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653019126Author Adin SteinsaltzFormat HardbackPage Count 1436Imprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren PublishersWeight(grams) 1542gDimensions(mm) 239mm *...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802840097Author Maxine L. GrossmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint 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 9781592640225Author Rabbi Jonathan SacksFormat HardbackPage Count 450Imprint Koren Publishers JerusalemPublisher Koren Publishers Jerusalem

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 *...

"A brilliant non-fiction thriller about an ancient copy of the Torah. Highly recommended." -Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist Winner of the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature A thousand years ago, the most perfect copy of the Hebrew Bible was...

Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Radiance) has amazed readers ever since it emerged in medieval Spain over seven hundred years ago. Written in lyrical Aramaic, this masterpiece of Kabbalah exceeds the dimensions of a normal book; it is virtually a body of...

Jeffrey L. Rubenstein continues his grand exploration of the ancient rabbinic tradition of the Talmudic sages, offering deep and complex analysis of eight stories from the Babylonian Talmud to reconstruct the cultural and religious world of the...

In 1946 the first of the Dead Sea Scroll discoveries was made near the site of Qumran, at the northern end of the Dead Sea. Despite the much publicized delays in the publication and editing of the Scrolls, practically all of them had been made public by...

"The Wisdom of Love" strives to challenge the discrepancy between the way source texts relate to love and the way they are perceived to do so, introducing readers to the extensive, profound, and significant treatment of love in the Jewish canon. This is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060630379Format PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Students will experience the text just as Jews have studied it for nearly 2,000 years. Features twelve key passages from the Mishnah that carry special significance for today's students. Each excerpt is given in both Hebrew and English.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940646452Author Henry RoubicekFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Rossel BooksPublisher Rossel BooksWeight(grams) 599gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Trans Talmud places eunuchs and androgynes at the center of rabbinic literature and asks what we can learn from them about Judaism and the project of transgender history. Rather than treating these figures as anomalies to be justified or explained away,...

Building on the success of the Jewish Annotated New Testament (JANT) and the Jewish Study Bible (JSB), Oxford University Press now proceeds to complete the trilogy with the Jewish Annotated Apocrypha (JAA). The books of the Apocrypha were virtually all...

A book that challenges our most basic assumptions about Judeo-Christian monotheismContrary to popular belief, Judaism was not always strictly monotheistic. Two Gods in Heaven reveals the long and little-known history of a second, junior god in Judaism,...

There is no question that the Torah is one of the most influential documents in Western civilization. It is the source of widely known characters like Joseph, Moses, and Noah, and timeless stories such as the Garden of Eden and the Exodus. Jointly...

New in paperback, this is a fully illustrated volume on the discovery, meaning and significance of all the Dead Sea Scrolls by acknowledged experts in the field. Offering intriguing historical and religious insights into the period of authorship, from...

Scattered throughout the Talmud, the founding document of rabbinic Judaism in late antiquity, can be found quite a few references to Jesus--and they're not flattering. In this lucid, richly detailed, and accessible book, Peter Schafer examines how the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592640232Author Jonathan SacksFormat HardbackImprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press Ltd

In the thousand years before the rise of Islam, two radically diverse conceptions of what it means to say that a law is divine confronted one another with a force that reverberates to the present. What's Divine about Divine Law? untangles the classical...

The texts in Isaiah 40–66 are widely admired for their poetic brilliance. Situating Isaiah within its historic context, Katie Heffelfinger here explores its literary aspects through a lyrically informed approach that emphasizes key features of the poetry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881233223Author Shmuly YanklowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint Central Conference of American RabbisPublisher Central Conference of American...

Thanks to these generous donors for making the publication of this book possible: Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence Deutsch.The latest in the JPS Bible Commentary series, 2011 National Jewish Book Award Winner, Barbara Dobkin Award in Women's StudiesThe moving story...

Etienne Nodet examines the Samaritans and their religion, using Jewish and Christian sources, including rabbinic literature and the latest archaeology. Nodet tells the story of the Samaritans and their religion, showing how they were faithful to a...

In this refreshing exploration of Judah’s identity formation, the emphasis is placed on the psychological underpinnings of Judah’s sentiments towards Israel to shed light on their intricate relationship. Richly contextual, this book draws parallels in...

A hermeneutics of cispicion challenges cisnormative presuppositions that shape and, at times, occlude the variations in gender and sex exhibited by key characters in the ancestral narrative of Genesis 12–50. It charts the progression from Paul Ricoeur’s...

The classic text that focuses on the talmudic perspective of the Jewish path to holiness. Bilingual edition (Hebrew and English).Book InformationISBN 9781568214276Author Mordecai M. KaplanFormat HardbackPage Count 460Imprint Jason Aronson Inc...

Norms and obligations are central components of many religious traditions. Yet they have often been neglected as objects of reflection in the study of religion relative to belief, experience, and even the related category of ritual. More surprisingly,...