Theology

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814318508Author Raphael PataiFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint Wayne State University PressPublisher Wayne State University PressWeight(grams) 544g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570629242Author Rabbi Nilton BonderFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

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As featured on the cover of Tikkun magazine How do we articulate a religious vision that embraces evolution and human authorship of Scripture? Drawing on the Jewish mystical traditions of Kabbalah and Hasidism, path-breaking Jewish scholar Arthur Green...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060926519Author Harold SchulweisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 204mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684114009Author Charles B ChavelFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm)...

The modern Jew, living in a world of shattered beliefs and competing ideologies, is often confronted with questions of faith. Sacred Fragments is for those who still care enough to continue the struggle. In forthright, nontechnical language the author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947706095Author Reb Moshe SteinermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Ilovetorah Jewish PublishingPublisher Ilovetorah Jewish PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807407981Author Rifat SonsinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint UAHC PressPublisher UAHC Press

In this commentary, Joshua Berman considers Lamentations as a literary work that creates meaning for a community in the wake of tragedy through its repudiation of Zion theology. Drawing from studies in collective trauma, his volume is the first study of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805200751Author Judah HaleviFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 316gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Traditional Jewish religious belief speaks of a divinely revealed, perfect text, authoritatively expounded. The question this book addresses is one with which the author has struggled all his life: in the light of historical criticism, advances in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580230421Author Lawrence KushnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 223Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams)...

2022 Top Five Reference Book from Academy of Parish Clergy The most comprehensive book on the topic, Thinking about Good and Evil traces the most salient Jewish ideas about why innocent people seem to suffer, why evil individuals seem to prosper, and...

The world we engage with is a vibrant collage brought to consciousness by language and our creative imagination. It is through the symbolic forms of language that the human world of value is revealed-this is where religious scholar Michael Fishbane...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615699912Author Eliezer Lipa (Leonard) MoskowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 652Imprint New Davar PublicationsPublisher New Davar PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802870834Author Anathea E. Portier-YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 462Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

For thousands of years the Jewish tradition has been a source of moral guidance, for Jews and non-Jews alike. As the essays in this volume show, the theologians and practitioners of Judaism have a long history of wrestling with moral questions,...

Not long ago, everyone knew that Judaism came before Christianity. More recently, scholars have begun to recognize that the historical picture is quite a bit more complicated than that. In the Jewish world of the first century, many sects competed for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062988768Author Simon JacobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & CompanyWeight(grams) 227g

In this book, Kaplan enlarges on his notion of functional reinterpretation and then actually applies it to the entire ritual cycle of the Jewish year-a rarity in modern Jewish thought. This work continues to function as a central text for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580233552Author Avraham WeissFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams) 700g

Major selections from Maimonides' writings, including Guide to the Perplexed, Mishneh Torah, his essays, correspondence, and commentaries. The definitive one-volume English presentation. This book will provide a deeper understanding of Maimonides with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580231305Author Arthur GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams)...

This illuminating study is about the absence of a concept of time in ancient Judaism, and the predominance instead of process in the ancient Jewish world-view. Sacha Stern draws his evidence from the complete range of Jewish sources from this period:...

A physician and historian of science and medicine at the National Institute of Health tells the hidden story of how plagues and pandemics shaped the history of the Jewish people. Plagues, pandemics, and infectious diseases have shaped the history of...

Concealed for two centuries and known only to a select individual in each generation, the "Scroll of Secrets" is the hidden Messianic vision of R. Nachman of Bratslav. Despite being written in an encoded language, with acronyms and abbreviations, after a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800638498Author Marvin A. SweeneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

Hermann Cohen's Religion of Reason, Out of the Sources of Judaism (first published in 1919) is widely taken to be the greatest work in Jewish philosophy and religious thought since Maimonides' Guide to the Perplexed. It is at once a Jewish book and a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909697881Author Jay SklarFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Sheffield Phoenix PressPublisher Sheffield Phoenix PressWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580236300Author Rabbi Carole B. BalinFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights Publishing

'A deeply humane, learned and personal reflection on Jewish identity' - Rowan Williams 'This inspiring book has made me a better Jew, one who understands more, who knows more' - Daniel Finkelstein 'This remarkable book takes us on a journey:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802813558Author Michael WyschogrodFormat PaperbackPage Count 253Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

The concern for purity was the cornerstone of the religious culture of ancient Judaism. Purity and Identity in Ancient Judaism explores how this concern shaped the worldview of Jews during the Second Temple period as well as their daily practices and...

This book examines the ways in which two distinct biblical conceptions of impurity-"ritual" and "moral"-were interpreted in the Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, rabbinic literature, and the New Testament. In examining the evolution of ancient Jewish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685710866Author Max Yeshaye Brumberg-KrausFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm)...

A study of Jewish-Christian relations from medieval times through the eighteenth century. Both Jewish and Christian writers are represented.Book InformationISBN 9780874413656Author Behrman HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Behrman House Inc.,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580235150Author David HartmanFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams) 1g

For millennia, two biblical verses have been understood to condemn sex between men as an act so abhorrent that it is punishable by death. Traditionally Orthodox Jews, believing the scripture to be the word of God, have rejected homosexuality in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805210330Author Harold S. KushnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 223gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...