God and the First Families offers a novel exploration of Gods role as a parent in the book of Genesis. Compellingly, author Stephen Spector introduces Americans four main perceptions of God and their four most common styles of parenting as lenses...Loe edasi...
This literary, historical, and archaeological commentary on First Samuel illuminates one of the great books of biblical storytelling, with its focus on three key characters, Samuel, Saul, and David, and with strong female characters such as Hannah, M...Loe edasi...
Manse Rim untersucht das Verhältnis von Messias und Gerechtigkeit in antiken jüdischen Texten und in den Paulusbriefen. Durch die Analyse moralischer, administrativer und eschatologischer Dimensionen entwickelt er einen neuen Ansatz zum Verständnis...Loe edasi...
The modern phenomenon of fan fiction involves readers writing creative pieces that answer questions left open in favorite works of literature. This also describes the ancient tradition of midrash, where readers write stories filling in gaps in the...Loe edasi...
Fan fiction, the art of storytelling using characters and elements from established work, can trace its lineage to midrash, an ancient tradition of interpreting Biblical text by writing stories that answer open questions. This creative writing e...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197807859)
Going Off Script offers a novel explanation of what it means to act lifnim mi-shurat ha-din (within the line of the law). Tracing the development of this phrase within classical rabbinic literature, the book intervenes in longstandi...Loe edasi...
This anthology offers a comprehensive overview of the current state of research on the textual transmission, composition, theology, contexts, and reception of the Book of Numbers....Loe edasi...
Volume 2 of our annotated edition of the Arragel Bible includes a bilingual presentation of the Codexs Prologue with English translation, and Arragels Old Spanish version of Genesis, with detailed annotations on its sources, content, and translation...Loe edasi...
Volume 3 of our annotated edition of the Arragel Bible includes Arragel’s exegetical commentary on the book of Genesis, with detailed notes on its sources and content, along with a Glossary of rare voices from the Prologue and Genesis materials....Loe edasi...
The studies in this volume contextualize our edition of the Arragel Bible—a 15th century Spanish Bible translation with commentary—as a work of Hispano-Jewish scholarship, a linguistic-literary artifact, and a historical source on Jewish-Christian re...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111242583)
The text genre of the Toledot Yeshu, unique in Judaism, experienced a peak in 18th century Amsterdam, especially in Yiddish. The edition of a long version offers the opportunity to study the climax of this text genre on the original Yiddish te...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674305564)
The Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, stands as one of the central pillars of Jewish intellectual, cultural, and religious life. The essays collected in What Is the Talmud? provide a comprehensive exploration of the Talmud’s origins, compilation, a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520429987)
In Behind Ancient Bars, law professor and rabbinical student Hadar Aviram challenges the conventional assumption that incarceration is an artifact of modernity by looking back to depictions of detention and confinement in the Hebrew Bible. Avi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520429994)
In Behind Ancient Bars, law professor and rabbinical student Hadar Aviram challenges the conventional assumption that incarceration is an artifact of modernity by looking back to depictions of detention and confinement in the Hebrew Bible. Avi...Loe edasi...
This book thoroughly examines Genizah fragments of Tractate Eruvin in the Babylonian Talmud from Cambridge University Librarys Taylor Schechter collection. While previous research has focused on cataloging and categorizing the fragments and providi...Loe edasi...
With astute attention to Zephaniahs intertextual relationships with other biblical texts, Nicholas R. Werse explores the implications of Zephaniah as a book in perpetual conversation with other biblical cosmologies and conceptions of the human...Loe edasi...
A rigorous social-scientific study illuminating how fasting functioned within first-century Mediterranean honor-shame culture and reshapes interpretations of biblical texts and evangelical practice....Loe edasi...
This Element describes the most common educational processes of religious communities in the late antique period. Through a combination of historical analysis and examples, it provides an overview of the methods used to teach the alphabet and basic...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009539302)
This Element describes the most common educational processes of religious communities in the late antique period. Through a combination of historical analysis and examples, it provides an overview of the methods used to teach the alphabet and basic...Loe edasi...
