Theology

As a recently established field of Jewish thought, Jewish political philosophy has made increasingly frequent appearances in recently edited histories of Jewish philosophy. Following the pioneering efforts of Leo Strauss, Ralph Lerner and Daniel Elazar,...

Rabbi Shimon ben Zemach Duran (1361-1444) was a colourful rabbinic authority in Algiers. In his book, Zohar Harakia, on methods of enumerating the 613 commandments, he summarises the work of previous authorities on this subject, especially Maimonides and...

Avi Sagi's book ponders one of the most intriguing shifts in modern Jewish thought: from a metaphysical and theological stand-point toward a new manner of philosophising based primarily on practice. Different chapters study this great shift and its...

Description should be: This ground-breaking book presents a new theology of the Jews as God's Chosen People, addressing issues of self-serving ethnocentric supremacy, cultural isolation, and the defamation of religions other than Judaism. It is...

A Jewish Public Theology draws from Halakhah, Jewish law, to address some of the most searing current policy issues. Abraham Unger examines how Jewish tradition speaks to globalization and its attendant political and economic cleavages. Classical Jewish...

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...

Modern Jewish Theology is the first comprehensive collection of Jewish theological ideas from the pathbreaking nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, featuring selections from more than thirty of the most influential Jewish thinkers of the era as well...

Nobel Peace Prize–winner Elie Wiesel brings ancient religious leaders to literary life, framing his commentary with pressing and enduring questions as a survivor and witness to the Holocaust. Five Biblical Portraits represents an old-new approach to...

It is not common to think that Jews were interested in happiness or that Judaism has anything to say about happiness. On the contrary, the concept of happiness was a central concern of Jewish thinkers. Hava Tirosh-Samuelson shows that rabbinic Judaism...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644697948Author Daniel HorowitzFormat HardbackImprint Academic Studies PressPublisher Academic Studies Press

In this stimulating book, one of the world's leading scholars of Jewish thought examines the long tradition of Jewish messianism and mystical experience. Moshe Idel calls upon his profound knowledge of ancient and medieval texts and of Jewish, Christian,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853036920Author Byron L. SherwinFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853034971Author Leon S. SheleffFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853035633Author Louis JacobsFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)...

The theological problems facing those trying to respond to the Holocaust remain monumental. Both Jewish and Christian post-Auschwitz religious thought must grapple with profound questions, from how God allowed it to happen to the nature of evil. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652295583Author Shmuel HerzfeldFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 706g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652295347Author Yerachmiel ben-YishyeFormat HardbackPage Count 278Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 514g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652299369Author Rabbi Dov LipmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 260g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652297808Author Haim AverbuchFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 280g

This book ponders one of the most intriguing shifts in modern Jewish thought: from a metaphysical and theological standpoint toward a new manner of philosophising based primarily on practice. Different chapters study this great shift and its various...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683364221Author Rabbi Lawrence KushnerFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683360698Author David HartmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683367130Author Dr. Andrew NewbergFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint TurnerPublisher Turner

A timely book: as Israelis and Arabs are moving towards a settlement, this study offers a valuable historical dimension, from the Jewish point of view, to the main issue involved, i.e., the idea of peace. The authors maintain that peace has always played...

In 1993, the World Parliament of Religions endorsed the "Declaration towards a Global Ethic" composed by Hans Kung. In it, representatives from all the world's religions agreed on principles for a global ethic and committed themselves to directives of...

Ignaz Maybaum (1897-1976) is widely recognized as one of the foremost Jewish theologians of the post-Holocaust era. Although he is mentioned in most treatments of post-Holocaust Jewish theology, his works are out of print and are only accessible to a...

Ignaz Maybaum (1897-1976) is widely recognized as one of the foremost Jewish theologians of the post-Holocaust era. Although he is mentioned in most treatments of post-Holocaust Jewish theology, his works are out of print and are only accessible to a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580234252Author Rabbi Jill JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams)...

Environmental concerns are at the top of the agenda around the world. Judaism, like the other world religions, only rarely raised issues concerning the environment in the past. This means that modern Judaism, the halakhic tradition no less than others,...

This book explores two kinds of universalist thought that circulated among Jews in the Greco-Roman world. The first, which is founded on the idea that all people may worship the One True God in an engaged and sustained manner, originates in biblical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683363705Author David HartmanFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594732072Author Rabbi Rami ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint SkyLight Paths Publishing,USPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams) 0g

The Faith and Doubt of Holocaust Survivors reveals the victims' frank and thought-provoking answers to searching questions about their experiences: Was the Holocaust God's will? Was there any meaning or purpose in the Holocaust? Was Israel worth the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652298683Author Rabbi Yosef BittonFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 484g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161496431Author Samuel KraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck)Publisher JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck)Weight(grams) 481g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161549625Author Wolfgang GrunstaudlFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint Mohr SiebeckPublisher Mohr SiebeckWeight(grams) 454g

"Sacred Attunement" is Michael Fishbane's attempt to renew Jewish theology for our time, in the larger context of modern and postmodern challenges to theology and theological thought in the broadest sense. Fishbane regrounds theology in this...

Borowitz creatively explores his theory of Covenant, linking self to folk and God through the contemporary idiom of relationship.Reviews"Often regarded more as a culture than religion, Judaism's modernization began with the assimilation of 19th-century...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807407295Author Sharon D HalperFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Urj PressPublisher Urj PressWeight(grams) 386g