Theology

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609573386Author Rev James a SolomonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Xulon PressPublisher Xulon PressWeight(grams) 426g

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...

In Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern, Jalal ad-Din Rumi, Moses de Leon, and Meister Eckhart-three of the greatest mystics of all time-meet in Venice for an imaginary night-long conversation that will inspire everyday individuals of the twenty-first...

A landmark new translation of the most significant text in medieval Jewish thought. Written in Arabic and completed around 1190, the Guide to the Perplexed is among the most powerful and influential living texts in Jewish philosophy, a masterwork...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606082379Author Louis JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 61Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm)...

Your plain-English guide to Judaism Whether you're interested in the religion or the spirituality, the culture or the ethnic traditions, Judaism For Dummies explores the full spectrum of Judaism, dipping into the mystical, meditative, and spiritual depth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061374982Author Joseph TelushkinFormat HardbackPage Count 800Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

A dramatic misinterpretation of the Jewish tradition has shaped the history of the West: Christianity is the religion of love, and Judaism the religion of law. In the face of centuries of this widespread misrepresentation, Rabbi Shai Held - one of the...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592643097Author Norman LammFormat HardbackPage Count 247Imprint Toby Press LtdPublisher Toby Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060621797Author Wayne Rabbi. DosicFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint HarperSanFranciscoPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062896377Author Joseph TelushkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint William Morrow PaperbacksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Saadia Gaon, the great ninth century Jewish philosopher, was the father of both scientific biblical exegesis and Jewish philosophic theology. From his position as head of the great Talmudic academy in Sura, Babylonia, Saadia became the earliest...

The Holy Fire: The Teachings of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, the Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto is a journey into the mind and spirit of a sublime hasidic master in his moments of joy and tranquillity, and later, in his time of personal and communal...

The Orthodox Jewish tradition affirms that Jewish exile will end with the coming of the Messiah. How, then, does Orthodoxy respond to the political realization of a Jewish homeland that is the state of Israel? In this study, the author probes Orthodoxy's...

Jews and Christians alike have made Psalm 91 one of the most commonly used and cited parts of the Bible. For over two thousand years, the psalm has played a pivotal role in discussions of theology and politics, of medicine and mysticism. In He Will Save...

Martin Buber was one of the most significant religious thinkers of the twentieth century. In this short and remarkable book he presents the essential teachings of Hasidism, the mystical Jewish movement which swept through Eastern Europe in the eighteenth...

The Jewish religion is one of the major faiths of the world yet one of the least understood. In a wide-ranging and accessible guide for the general reader Rabbi Naftali Brawer outlines the major themes and history of over 5,000 years of Jewish faith from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633378117Author Alyosha RyabinovFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Song of IsraelPublisher Song of IsraelWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735338842Author Yonatan NerilFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Interfaith Center for Sustainable DevelopmentPublisher Interfaith Center for...

Written over 40 years, this text seeks to: clarify the relation of certain aspects of Jewish thinking and Jewish living to contemporary intellectual movements; and to analyze those trends within Jewish life, which, surrendering to many ideologies, tend...

In The Heart of Torah, Rabbi Shai Held's Torah essays-two for each weekly portion-open new horizons in Jewish biblical commentary. Held probes the portions in bold, original, and provocative ways. He mines Talmud and midrashim, great writers of world...

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...

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...

According to the author the Hellenistic tradition played a role as a model for Jewish modernisers to draw upon as they perceived a lack in Jewish culture. The author believes that Greek and Hellenistic concepts are now internalised by the Jewish people...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374529758Author Abraham Joshua HeschelFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

Margaret Barker believes that Christianity developed so quickly because it was a return to far older faith - far older than the Greek culture that is long-held to have influenced Christianity. Temple Theology explains that the preaching of the gospel and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609603307Author Rabbi Joseph TelushkinFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 782gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580238038Author Arthur GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights Publishing

The Triumph of Life is Rabbi Irving Greenberg’s magnum opus—a narrative of the relationship between God and humanity as expressed in the Jewish journey through modernity, the Holocaust, the creation of Israel, and the birth of Judaism’s next era...

One aim of this series is to dispel the intimidation readers feel when faced with the work of difficult and challenging thinkers. Moses ben Maimon, also known as Maimonides (1138-1204), represents the high point of Jewish rationalism in the middle ages...

'Absorbing, fascinating, arresting' The Observer 'Intensely moving, luminous and rather magnificent' The TimesIt was one of the most startling moments in the history of the City of London. In 2011, the Occupy movement set up camp around St Paul's...

The Star of Redemption is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding religion and philosophy. Fusing philosophy and theology, the book assigns both Judaism and Christianity distinct but equally important roles in the spiritual structure of...

'The only force equal to a fundamentalism of hate is a counter-fundamentalism of love.' Jonathan Sacks is an outstanding moral authority of our time and best-selling author of The Dignity of Difference. One of Judaism's most distinctive and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947857728Author Alec GoldsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Kodesh PressPublisher Kodesh PressWeight(grams) 503g

The crucial question for today's Jewish world, Menachem Kellner argues, is not whether Jews will have Jewish grandchildren, but how many different sorts of mutually exclusive Judaisms those grandchildren will face. Kellner's short, brisk, and...

A Rabbi Reads the Torah distils a lifetime of Bible study by a Jewish scholar devoted to popularising the study of the Hebrew Bible in its original language, helped by the wealth of centuries of Jewish interpretation and debate, as well as the best of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807010518Author Danya RuttenbergFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

In 2008, The New York Times reported on the discovery of a Hebrew tablet, dating from before the birth of Christ, which predicted a Messiah who would rise from the dead after three days. Famed religious scholar Daniel Boyarin stated that 'some Christians...