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Emphasizes the English hymn as a literary entity within denominational and historical contexts, from the early Church through the twentieth century. With a listing of works for further reading and an index to all hymns discussed.About the AuthorSamuel J...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780876685815Author Moshe Z. SokolFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Jason Aronson Inc. PublishersPublisher Jason Aronson Inc. PublishersWeight(grams)...

Let My People Go: Insights to Passover and the Haggadah offers an analysis of ancient and modern perspectives on the themes of slavery and freedom. Rabbi Jeffrey M. Cohen provides an original interpretation of the central biblical sources of Passover,...

There were fifteen important prophets in Israel, whose lives covered nearly four centuries, beginning about 750 B.C.E. Known as the literary prophets because they wrote down their prophecies, they were chosen by God at a time of social and political...

To find more information on Jason Aronson titles, please visit us at http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com/AronsonP/.About the AuthorLinda Loewenstein is director of the Boulder Jewish Community Center.Book InformationISBN 9780765761996Author Linda...

To find more information on Rowman & Littlefield titles, please visit www.rlpgbooks.com.Book InformationISBN 9780765760333Author Richard S. ChapinFormat PaperbackPage Count 193Imprint Jason Aronson PublishersPublisher Jason Aronson...

Immanuel Kant is often thought of as a great skeptic of religion. His onslaught against the traditional arguments for the existence of God in the Critique of Pure Reason is considered decisive evidence of his efforts to destroy theology. This text...

In separate multi-volumed works, form-analytical English translations of the Mishnah, Tosefta, Yerushalmi, and Bavli have been set forth. Outlines of the Yerushalmi and the Bavli have been brought about, and those outlines of the two Talmuds have been...

To find more information on Rowman & Littlefield titles, please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9781568219264Author Aliza ShevrinFormat HardbackPage Count 346Imprint Jason Aronson PublishersPublisher Jason Aronson...

This second volume contains over 4,475 entries, furthering the author's work of providing a comprehensive bibliography of modern research on the city of Jerusalem. Volume II supplements volume I not only by providing new titles, but also by including...

In The Eternal Books Retold, Alex J. Goldman takes on the role of a friendly, dedicated teacher as he summarizes the 39 books of the Bible. Rabbi Goldman writes: "My purpose in retelling and explaining the ancient books of The Holy Scriptures is to place...

A book-length study of the wisdom that Judaism imparts upon relationships with God, self, and others.About the AuthorGershon Winkler is a widely recognized scholar in the fields of Jewish law, lore, theology, and mysticism. A descendant of a scion of...

Interest in Jewish mysticism is, in our generation, widespread and growing. From Hebrew schools to Hollywood, people of all backgrounds and levels of knowledge are pursuing the subject. Books, magazines, journals, and classes are rapidly growing in...

The easy-to-read format invites readers to explore some of the most sensitive and troubling questions about becoming part of the Jewish community. Plenty of inspirational anecdotes and true stories about converts illustrate the vibrant and exciting...

The translator writes: "The Jews' State" is over one hundred years old. The work is both catalyst and prophecy. Catalyst: Speaking both to Jews and to the international community, it virtually launched the modern debate about a modern state for...

Award-winning storyteller Barbara Diamond Goldin has collected and retold twenty-four stories about tzedakah in this inspiring volume. Some of these stories are based on oral tales, like "The Two Beggars," which is from Afghanistan, and "The Rabbi's...

The first book of its kind, Progressive Dispensationalism presents a comprehensive and collaborative look at the arguments against, and the errors within, the progressive dispensationalist movement. The authors begin with a history of dispensationalism...

Discussions of any religion can easily raise passions. But arguments tend to become even more heated when the religion under discussion is characterized as new. Divisions around the study of new religious movements (NRMs), or cults, or nontraditional or...

To find more information about Rowman & Littlefield titles please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780765761071Author Nehemiah BlavinFormat HardbackPage Count 255Imprint Jason Aronson PublishersPublisher Jason Aronson...

Besides recounting the exemplary life of Monsignor John Joseph Egan, An Alley in Chicago briefs us on the firebrand priests and lay people who radiated the power and elan that made Catholics across the country look to the heartland, to Chicago's Catholic...

To find more information on Rowman & Littlefield titles, please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9781568210476Author Mordechai StaimanFormat HardbackPage Count 293Imprint Jason Aronson Inc. PublishersPublisher Jason Aronson Inc...

Alongside the older and more established religions, there are hundreds, indeed, thousands more, which have recently emerged. These "new religious movements" or NRMs-for lack of a better name-are not only numerous, they are also extremely varied and stem...

Now more than ever, people are turning to their rabbis and communities to seek the consolation they need in times of mourning and bereavement. As such, the field of pastoral care is becoming increasingly important to clergy of all faiths. To Walk in...

With a history of over three and a half millennia, and over 800 million adherents, Hinduism is one of the world's largest and most diverse religious traditions. This book presents the Hindu religious tradition's major events, individuals, texts, sects,...

Essays linking Roman Catholic tradition and American cultural moral issues in the last fifty years.Book InformationISBN 9781556126017Author Richard McCormickFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Sheed & Ward,U.S.Publisher Rowman &...

To find out more information about Rowman & Littlefield titles, please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9781573093859Author Robert M. FowlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint International Scholars Publications,U.S.Publisher...

A dark comedy, with a luminous ending, about the difficulty of representing God.Book InformationISBN 9781573092982Author Keith D. ManoFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint International Scholars Publications,U.S.Publisher Rowman &...

In separate multi-volumed works, form-analytical English translations of the Mishnah, Tosefta, Yerushalmi, and Bavli have been set forth. Outlines of the Yerushalmi and the Bavli have been brought about, and those outlines of the two Talmuds have been...

In Search of Genre is an innovative study of the beginning of modernity in Hebrew and Jewish letters, which reflected the emerging changes in Jewish society toward the end of the 18th century in Germany. Young intellectual Jews aspired to revitalize the...

To learn more about Rowman & Littlefield titles please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780761826842Author Donkor KwabenaFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint University Press of AmericaPublisher University Press of...

A positive vision of the re-Christianization of Central America by Evangelical missionary activity and a dramatic shift in the cultural, social and economic realities in Latin America.Book InformationISBN 9781573090902Author Joseph A YacaginskyFormat...

In separate multi-volumed works, form-analytical English translations of the Mishnah, Tosefta, Yerushalmi, and Bavli have been set forth. Outlines of the Yerushalmi and the Bavli have been brought about, and those outlines of the two Talmuds have been...

This paradigm-breaking book dares to rethink the whole of the '60s experience, not from a political or sociological viewpoint but from an historical/theological perspective. Camille Paglia wrote that 'the spiritual history of the sixties has yet to be...

This paradigm-breaking book dares to rethink the whole of the '60s experience, not from a political or sociological viewpoint but from an historical/theological perspective. Camille Paglia wrote that 'the spiritual history of the sixties has yet to be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733363532Author Moshe WeinerFormat HardbackPage Count 706Imprint Ask Noah International IncPublisher Ask Noah International IncWeight(grams)...

The Rabbis of classical Judaism, in the first six centuries of the Common Era, commented on the teachings of ancient Israel's prophets and shaped, as much as they were shaped by, prophecy. They commented on much of the Scriptural heritage and they made...

Scripture condemns various forms of sexual behavior-but not all. Same-Sex in Scripture identifies in Mt. 19:12 an acknowledgement by Christ of the person born without an impulse towards the opposite sex, and reasons that inasmuch as all creation is good...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532643231Author Klaus ScholderFormat PaperbackPage Count 406Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

In seventeenth-century France, Madame Guyon wrote about the concept of "pure love." "Love pure and holy, is a deathless fire," she wrote, and is "ethereal fare." Her popular books spread quickly through Europe and the New World, drawing the attention of...

This work builds on Bernard Berelson's 1949 "Uses and Gratifications" landmark study for Columbia University, which analyzed a crosssection of men and women living in New York who did not receive the newspaper during a New York Times strike. Respondents...