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Covenant and Community in Modern Judaism by S. Daniel Breslauer 9780313266058
Booksplease Price: £61.63While scholars agree on the continuing importance of biblical covenant as a foundation of Judaism, they often disagree in their perception of the meaning and significance of this concept in a modern... -
Reasoning After Revelation: Dialogues In Postmodern Jewish Philosophy Steven Kepnes 9780813365657
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Postmodern Jewish thinkers understand their Jewishness differently, but they all share a fidelity to what they call the ?Torah? and to communal practices of reading and social action that have their... -
German Philosophy and the First World War by Nicolas de Warren
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £29.91How did the First World War, the so-called 'Great War' - widely seen on all sides as 'the war to end all wars' - impact the development of German philosophy? Combining history and biography with... -
Emerging Developments in Pre-therapy: A Pre-Therapy Reader by Garry F. Prouty 9781906254094
Booksplease Price: £21.69Garry Prouty writes: In developing this book with my colleagues, I have come to realize that Pre-Therapy is not only a theory and technique of psychotherapy, but also a method of understanding... -
Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation by Leora Batnitzky 9780521679350
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.98Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas, two twentieth-century Jewish philosophers and two extremely provocative thinkers whose reputations have grown considerably, are rarely studied together. This is due... -
Celebrating the Jewish Year: The Spring and Summer Holidays: Passover, Shavuot, The Omer, Tisha B'Av by Paul Steinberg
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.762009 National Jewish Book Award Winner, Jewish Family Literature JPS's holiday books take us through the joys, spirit, and meaning of the seasons. As we move from season to season, Paul Steinberg... -
Mister Rogers and Philosophy by Eric J. Mohr 9780812694772
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, which began as The Children's Corner in 1953 and terminated in 2001, left its mark on America. The show's message of kindness, simplicity, and individual uniqueness made... -
Incorruptible Bodies: Christology, Society, and Authority in Late Antiquity Yonatan Moss 9780520418356
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21In the early sixth-century eastern Roman empire, anti-Chalcedonian leaders Severus of Antioch and Julian of Halicarnassus debated the nature of Jesus's body: Was it corruptible prior to its... -
Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims by Mirjam Lücking
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £18.78Indonesians and Their Arab World explores the ways contemporary Indonesians understand their relationship to the Arab world. Despite being home to the largest Muslim population in the world,... -
The Nation without Art: Examining Modern Discourses on Jewish Art by Margaret Olin 9780803222335
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Looking through the history of art, a reader might conclude that Jews could not create art-and such an assumption, historically incorrect, would be no accident. As we see with disturbing clarity in... -
Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims by Mirjam Lücking 9781501753114
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £93.02Indonesians and Their Arab World explores the ways contemporary Indonesians understand their relationship to the Arab world. Despite being home to the largest Muslim population in the world,... -
The Bundahisn: A New Translation by Shaul Shaked 9780190879044
Booksplease Price: £112.35The Bundahisn, meaning primal or foundational creation, is the central Zoroastrian account of creation, cosmology, and eschatology. Compiled sometime in the ninth century CE, it is one of the most... -
Anna and Dr Helmy: How an Egyptian Doctor Saved a Jewish Girl in Hitler's Berlin by Ronen Steinke 9780192893369
RRP: £27.49Booksplease Price: £21.19The remarkable story of Mohammed Helmy, the Egyptian doctor who risked his life to save Jewish Berliners from the Nazis. One of the people he saved was a Jewish girl called Anna. This book tells... -
German Jerusalem: The Remarkable Life of a German-Jewish Neighbourhood in the Holy City Thomas Sparr 9781914979040
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Planned at the beginning of the 1920s as a garden city on the fringes of Jerusalem, the suburbs of Talbiyeh and Rehavia became a centre of emigration for German Jews from 1933 onwards, acquiring the... -
Paradise in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian Views by Markus Bockmuehl 9780521117869
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.99The social and intellectual vitality of Judaism and Christianity in antiquity was in large part a function of their ability to articulate a viably transcendent hope for the human condition... -
The Making of the Abrahamic Religions in Late Antiquity by Guy G. Stroumsa 9780198786009
Booksplease Price: £45.60This book presents how ancient Christianity must be understood from the viewpoint of the history of religions in late antiquity. The continuation of biblical prophecy runs like a thread from Jesus... -
Jerusalem: A Brief History Michael Zank 9781405179720
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £10.84Provides a short, accessible, and lively introduction to Jerusalem Jerusalem - A Brief History shows how Jewish, Christian, and Islamic scriptures confer providential meaning to the fate of the city... -
American Jewry: Transcending the European Experience? by Cornelia Wilhelm 9781441126221
Booksplease Price: £41.24American Jewry explores new transnational questions in Jewish history, analyzing the historical, cultural and social experience of American Jewry from 1654 to the present day, and evaluates the... -
Creativity and Spirituality: Bonds between Art and Religion by Earle J. Coleman 9780791437001
Booksplease Price: £26.07From the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright to the rock gardens of Zen Buddhism, Coleman explores applied, fine, and folk arts in order to uncover points of coalescence between art and religion... -
German Philosophy and the First World War Nicolas de Warren 9781108437615
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.34How did the First World War, the so-called 'Great War' - widely seen on all sides as 'the war to end all wars' - impact the development of German philosophy? Combining history and biography with... -
A Common Justice: The Legal Allegiances of Christians and Jews Under Early Islam by Uriel I. Simonsohn
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.82In A Common Justice Uriel I. Simonsohn examines the legislative response of Christian and Jewish religious elites to the problem posed by the appeal of their coreligionists to judicial authorities... -
The Postzionism Debates: Knowledge and Power in Israeli Culture Laurence J. Silberstein 9780415913164
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83The struggle for postzionism is a conflict over national memory and the control of cultural and physical space. Laurence J. Silberstein analyzes the phenomenon of postzionism and provides an... -
Talking About God: Exploring the Meaning of Religious Life with Kierkegaard, Buber, Tillich and Heschel Daniel F. Polish 9781594732720
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26To wrestle with the ideas these thinkers present is to find ourselves challenged to look at our own religious lives in new ways and to appreciate the spiritual endeavours of others, whatever form... -
Jewish Liturgical Reasoning by Steven Kepnes 9780195313819
Booksplease Price: £63.73Liturgy, a complex interweaving of word, text, song, and behavior is a central fixture of religious life in the Jewish tradition. It is unique in that it is performed and not merely thought. Because... -
Prayer and Worship in Eastern Christianities, 5th to 11th Centuries by Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony 9780367881290
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Prayer and Worship in Eastern Christianities, 5th to 11th Centuries forges a new conversation about the diversity of Christianities in the medieval eastern Mediterranean, centered on the history of... -
Luther, Barth, and Movements of Theological Renewal (1918-1933) by Heinrich Assel 9783110991550
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.88The essays contained in this book originated as lectures at an international conference held in Princeton organized by Christine Helmer (Northwestern) and the editors of this book. This book itself... -
The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism by Danya Ruttenberg 9780814776056
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In this unique collection of essays, some of today's smartest Jewish thinkers explore a broad range of fundamental questions in an effort to balance ancient tradition and modern sexuality In the... -
Jewish Honor Courts: Revenge, Retribution, and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust by Laura Jockusch 9780814338773
Booksplease Price: £33.30In the aftermath of World War II, virtually all European countries struggled with the dilemma of citizens who had collaborated with Nazi occupiers. Jewish communities in particular faced the... -
Luther, Barth, and Movements of Theological Renewal (1918-1933) by Bruce L. McCormack 9783110610901
RRP: £101.50Booksplease Price: £69.18The essays contained in this book originated as lectures at an international conference held in Princeton organized by Christine Helmer (Northwestern) and the editors of this book. This book itself... -
The Jews: A History, 2-Volume Set by John Efron 9781041007296
RRP: £83.98Booksplease Price: £75.29These accessibly written volumes examine the major periods of Jewish history around the world, from their distant origins in antiquity through the beginnings of the modern period and the emergence of... -
Celebrating the Jewish Year: The Fall Holidays: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot by Paul Steinberg
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.54Named a 2007 National Jewish Book Award Runner-Up in the category of Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice.JPS's holiday books take us through the joys, spirit, and meaning of the seasons. Blending... -
Rosenzweig's Bible: Reinventing Scripture for Jewish Modernity by Mara H. Benjamin 9780521895262
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £52.49Rosenzweig's Bible examines the high stakes, both theological and political, of Franz Rosenzweig's attempt to revivify the Hebrew Bible and use it as the basis for a Jewish textual identity. Mara... -
Special Events: Proven Strategies for Nonprofit Fundraising by Alan L. Wendroff 9780471462354
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £61.80As the philosopher Martin Buber wrote, "All real living is meeting." People like to get together. That?s why special events can often work so much better for nonprofit organizations than other, less... -
Hasidic Tales: Annotated and Explained by Rabbi Rami Shapiro 9781893361867
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88In HASIDIC TALES Rabbi Rami Shapiro breathes new life into these classic stories to life for modern readers by Martin Buber in the twentieth century of people who so marvellously combined the... -
Being and Loving: How to Achieve Intimacy with Another Person and Retain One's Own Identity by Althea J. Horner 9780765700391
Booksplease Price: £51.70From the start of life, all of us strive to achieve two goals: intimacy with another person and discovery and expression of our own identity. All too often, however, we experience these goals as... -
Judaism, Education and Social Justice: Towards a Jewish Critical Pedagogy by Matt Plen 9781350293137
Booksplease Price: £31.52This book sets out new theoretical foundations for Jewish social justice education by surveying and discussing Freirean critical pedagogy, Catholic models of social justice education, Jewish social... -
In This Hour: Heschel's Writings in Nazi Germany and London Exile by Helen Plotkin 9780827613225
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £24.76In This Hour offers the first English translations of selected German writings by Abraham Joshua Heschel from his tumultuous years in Nazi-ruled Germany and months in London exile, before he found... -
Celebrating the Jewish Year: The Winter Holidays: Hanukkah, Tu B'shevat, Purim by Paul Steinberg 9780827608498
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.76Named a 2007 National Jewish Book Award Runner-Up in the category of Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice.JPS's new holiday books take us through the joys, spirit, and meaning of the seasons... -
An Integrative Approach to Healing Complex and Transgenerational Trauma: Psychotherapy and the Soul Isaac Pizer 9781032598239
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19This book presents an integrative relational approach to treating trauma and psychological entanglements through autobiographical, philosophical, and clinical reflections on the transgenerational... -
Rosenzweig's Bible: Reinventing Scripture for Jewish Modernity by Mara H. Benjamin 9781107663251
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.21Rosenzweig's Bible examines the high stakes, both theological and political, of Franz Rosenzweig's attempt to revivify the Hebrew Bible and use it as the basis for a Jewish textual identity. Mara...