Talmud

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735338804Author Yonatan NerilFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Interfaith Center for Sustainable DevelopmentPublisher Interfaith Center for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805212068Author Avivah Gottlieb ZornbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 539gDimensions(mm)...

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...

This workbook accompanies Gary Edward Schnittjer's Torah Story. Following the textbook's structure, it offers chapter-by-chapter guided exercises designed to support the students learning experience and enhance their comprehension of the Pentateuch...

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...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653015654Author Rabbi Adin Even-Israel SteinsaltzFormat HardbackPage Count 760Imprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren Publishers

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 9789653015647Author Rabbi Adin Even-Israel SteinsaltzFormat HardbackPage Count 760Imprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren Publishers

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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Jewish Book Award (Jewish Thought) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9789653016088Author Rabbi Adin SteinsaltzFormat HardbackPage Count 760Imprint Koren...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653015661Author Rabbi Adin Even-Israel SteinsaltzFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren Publishers

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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 9789653016262Author Rabbi Adin SteinsaltzFormat HardbackImprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren Publishers

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805241136Author Hayyim Nahman BialikFormat HardbackPage Count 920Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 2160gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592641949Author Binyamin La'uFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press Ltd

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653015739Author Rabbi Dr Tzvi Hersh WeinrebFormat HardbackImprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren Publishers

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...

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, aiming to illuminate the significance of Judah's appropriation of Israel. Richly contextual,...

The Decalogue, commonly known as the Ten Commandments, is usually analysed as a text. Within the Hebrew Bible, however, it is depicted as a monument- an artifact embedded in rituals that a community uses to define itself. Indeed, the phraseology, visual...

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...

National Jewish Book Awards Finalist for the Nahum N. Sarna Memorial Award for Scholarship, 2016.From its first appearance, the Zohar has been one of the most sacred, authoritative, and influential books in Jewish culture. Many scholarly works have been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568214276Author Mordecai M. KaplanFormat HardbackPage Count 460Imprint Jason Aronson PublishersPublisher Jason Aronson PublishersWeight(grams)...

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,...

The Rule of the Association (1QS; Serek ha-Yahad) is the primary description of the sectarian community described in the Dead Sea Scrolls. It was one of the first Scrolls published, in 1951. Several related fragmentary scrolls subsequently came to light...

Following the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E., Judaism faced a serious crossroads. The rabbis of late antiquity spent the next few centuries in extensive debates in an effort to create an ethical and practical basis for a Torah-based faith...

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Comprised of rabbinic debates in the aftermath of the destruction of the Second Temple (70 C.E.), the Talmud has provided the basis for Jewish ethical and practical norms for centuries. It is also an extremely long and forbiddingly difficult work that...

Following the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E., Judaism faced a serious crossroads. The rabbis of late antiquity spent the next few centuries immersed in extensive debates in an effort to create an ethical and practical basis for a Torah-based...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789653016385Author Rabbi Adin SteinsaltzFormat HardbackImprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren PublishersWeight(grams) 1588gDimensions(mm) 259mm * 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789657765289Author Adin SteinsaltzFormat PaperbackImprint Koren PublishersPublisher Koren PublishersWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 183mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789657765371Author Adin SteinsaltzFormat PaperbackImprint Koren Publishers JerusalemPublisher Koren Publishers JerusalemWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...