Theology

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874415957Author Gila GevirtzFormat HardbackImprint Behrman House PublishingPublisher Behrman House PublishingWeight(grams) 181g

This JPS ethics series deals with some of the most critical moral issues of our time. How do we use power once we've gained it? Is it completely for our individual benefit, or do we use it to help our neighborhoods, or society at-large? What kinds of...

This JPS ethics series deals with some of the most critical moral issues of our time. Is it OK to be wealthy? How do we know when we have too much? Enough? Is wealth relative? Are those born into wealth entitled to accumulate more money than those born...

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...

This rich collection celebrates 23 biblical women, from the familiar Sarah, Miriam, Ruth, and Esther, to the more mysterious Hatzlelponi mother of Samson) and the unnamed "Wife of Ovadiah." Based on the 13th-century Yemenite Midrash ha-Gadol...

The New Thinking; four important reviews of The Star of Redemption, and his 1917 letter to Rudolf Ehrenberg, the ""germcell"" of The Star. Barbara E. Galli's own essay touches on the basic concepts of Rosenzweig's work, while pointing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990760962Author Marc H EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint New Diaspora BooksPublisher New Diaspora BooksWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989110006Author Rabbi Evan MofficFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Washington Ave PressPublisher Washington Ave PressWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979934438Author Joy Collins LyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Martina PublishingPublisher Martina PublishingWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984304042Author William F ShannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Hudson Mohawk PressPublisher Hudson Mohawk PressWeight(grams) 163g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881232905Author Benjamin DavidFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Central Conference of American RabbisPublisher Central Conference of American...

Create meaningful conversations about values and ethics with this guide through a full year of weekly Torah portions.Book InformationISBN 9780874419764Author Behrman HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Behrman House Inc.,U.S.Publisher Behrman House...

Jewish philosophy responds to the challenges of today's world. By studying the ideas of great contemporary thinkers readers will achieve a rich understanding of our contemporary spiritual needs.Book InformationISBN 9780874415810Author Behrman HouseFormat...

In this vivid collection, Judaic scholar Vanessa Ochs brings the legends of the biblical matriarchs to new life. Intimate, familiar and wise, the heroines in Sarah Laughed are revealed to be inspiring role models for women today. From Eve's rebellious...

Fantastic myths about the angels who were lured to sin and the proud angel who rebelled against God and was cast down as Satan. The problem of evil has challenged mankind ever since the dawn of intelligence. Why is there evil in the world and why do pain...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692607466Author The Battle Of Our GenerationFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Battle of Our GenerationPublisher Battle of Our GenerationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692188408Author Richard BorahFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Observant Artist Community CirclePublisher Observant Artist Community...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374192440Author Shai HeldFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 454g

This is an exploration of the origins and development of Zionism, illustrating the theory and history of the Zionist movement and the creation of the state of Israel. In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in Middle Eastern affairs. The...

Educational Theory and Jewish Studies in Conversation: From Volozhin to Buczacz, by Harvey Shapiro, PhD, brings together two different fields of study-modern Jewish studies and contemporary educational theory-to provide new theoretical frameworks for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789655242713Author Shmuly YanklowitzFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Urim PublicationsPublisher Urim PublicationsWeight(grams) 672g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789655242812Author Ephraim KanarfogelFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Urim PublicationsPublisher Urim PublicationsWeight(grams) 502g

Justice in the City argues, based on the rabbinic textual tradition, especially the Babylonian Talmud, and utilizing French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas' framework of interpersonal ethics, that a just city should be a community of obligation. That...

In Cultures in Collision and Conversation, David Berger addresses three broad themes in Jewish intellectual history: Jewish approaches to cultures external to Judaism and the controversies triggered by this issue in medieval and modern times; the impact...

This is a two-part examination of the Reconstructionist philosophy of Mordecai M. Kaplan. Part I is largely devoted to a defence of Kaplan against several serious critics. It also provides new insight into Kaplan's theology through reference to as yet...

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...

Classical Judaism imagined the people Israel's situation in three aspects to be unique among the nations of the earth. The nations lived in unclean lands contaminated by corpses and redolent of death. They themselves are destined to die without hope of...

Focusing on the secular society of contemporary Israel, this collection of essays examines the way civil religion invents collective rites for turning points in community life, and personal definitional rites for ratification of identity change in the...

Sixteen scholars from around the globe gathered at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in the bucolic Yarnton Manor in the Oxfordshire countryside in June 2014, for the first (now annual) Oxford Summer Institute on Modern and Contemporary...

Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed addressed Jews of his day who felt challenged by apparent contradictions between Torah and science. We Are Not Alone: A Maimonidean Theology of the Other uses Maimonides' writings to address Jews of today who are...

If it can be said that theology is the philosophical examination of a religion by an insider, then the present collection of essays by Shubert Spero offers us the proper formula for a truly authentic work. The author sets out to rigorously yet...

The present volume honours Rabbi Professor Nehemia Polen, one of those rare scholars whose religious teachings, spiritual writings, and academic scholarship have come together into a sustained project of interpretive imagination and engagement. Without...

By its very nature, the ideals of religion entail sin and failure. Judaism has its own language and framework for sin that expresses themselves both legally and philosophically. Both legal questions - circumstances where sin is permissible or mandated,...

Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed addressed Jews of his day who felt challenged by apparent contradictions between Torah and science. We Are Not Alone: A Maimonidean Theology of the Other uses Maimonides' writings to address Jews of today who are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590567067Author Richard H. SchwartzFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,US

The notion that the God of the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic literature, "the God of the Jews," is perfectly good is challenged by apparently immoral acts-by contemporary standards-of that God, as well as by the classic problem of evil.In this...

Since World War II, the sub-Carpathian Mountain region once known as Maramarosh has remained "Judenrein" (free of Jews). Jewish Maramarosh lives on, however, through the contributions to scholarship and humanity of Maramarosh Holocaust...

Faith: Jewish Perspectives explores important questions in both modern and premodern Jewish philosophy regarding the idea of faith. Is believing a voluntary action, or do believers find themselves within the experience of faith against their will? Can...

Faith: Jewish Perspectives explores important questions in both modern and premodern Jewish philosophy regarding the idea of faith. Is believing a voluntary action, or do believers find themselves within the experience of faith against their will? Can...