This volume collects some of Steven S. Schwarzschilds (1924-1989) most important essays on Jewish thinkers, including his unpublished Ph.D. dissertation from 1955 on Nachman Krochmal and Hermann Cohen as philosophers of history. The chapters presen...Loe edasi...
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 volume, the latest contribution to the international Corpus Judaeo-Hellenisticum Novi Testamenti (CJH), investigates New Testament and Septuagint descriptions of theophanic interactions with the world. The CJH project aims to improve the underst...Loe edasi...
The Holy Land is more than a sanctified geographical space that roughly corresponds to the Roman province that has been known as Palaestina since the end of the Bar Kochba War. Instead, it is primarily an idea and imaginative space created by a compl...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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9781477333020)
The intertwining story of a noted anti-Nazi artist and the former rabbi who revived his reputation. During World War II, the Polish-Jewish immigrant Arthur Szyk became America’s leading anti-Nazi artist. His art was so effective that...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...
Dieser Band prüft das within Judaism-Paradigma als Heuristik statt als Prämisse. Die Beiträge untersuchen die Entstehung ntl. Texte im Pluralismus des antiken Judentums. Durch Analysen zu Grenzen, äußeren Wahrnehmungen und literarischen Genres wir...Loe edasi...
This Element focuses on the historiography of Christian origins from the mid-19th century to the present. It argues that this historiography is shaped by the ideas that were prevalent in the historians own eras and the prevailing views about Jews a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009591379)
This Element focuses on the historiography of Christian origins from the mid-19th century to the present. It argues that this historiography is shaped by the ideas that were prevalent in the historians own eras and the prevailing views about Jews a...Loe edasi...
Dies ist die arabische editio princeps des christlichjüdischen Disputs von Tomei (Thmuis), Ägypten, um 620, mit einer erstmaligen vollständigen Übersetzung ins Englische. Der weitgehend historische Bericht in griechischer Sprache behandelt einen the...Loe edasi...
In this work, Lenin Prado examines the relationship between the Priestly (P) and Yahwistic (J) narratives in the Pentateuch, focusing on the plagues of Egypt (Exod 7-11) and Moses call (Exod 3-4). He argues that the Priestly document is dependent on...Loe edasi...
This volume explores the historical and cultural dimensions of Jerusalem through the lens of world literature and art.Jerusalem inspired creation of various world literary works, spanning different time periods and contributing to v...Loe edasi...
A leading scholar of Jewish mysticism with Hasidic insight for every ShabbatArthur Green has been the leader of a neo-Hasidic revival in modern American Judaism for the last half-century. All of that comes together in this new...Loe edasi...
From Hungarian Orthodoxy Separatism to Fervent Zionism tells the story of the eldest greatgrandson of Hatam Sofer and leading Orthodox rabbi in Klausenburg (Cluj) M.S. Glasner. Glasner (18561924), the head of a major yeshiva and a respected halakhic...Loe edasi...
This book is a multidisciplinary discussion of the possibility of Jewish critique, addressing intersections between Jewish Studies and critical paradigms in this moment of crisis. It traces how dominant modes of critique at times reproduce superse...Loe edasi...
Sari: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503646308)
Taking an innovative approach to the study of religious literature and literary modernity, this book examines an overlooked body of texts - collections of Hasidic hagiographic stories about pious leaders, which were mass-produced during the nineteen...Loe edasi...
How successful were missions to the Jews between 1900 and 1950?Walk through the history of evangelism efforts to the Jewish people in Continental Europe by Protestant missionaries during the early twentieth century and discover the...Loe edasi...
This anthology brings together the unpublished poetry of Jacob Bronowski (1908-74). One of the last great polymaths, Bronowski was prominent in the fields of philosophy, mathematics, history and literary criticism, and is perhaps best remembered tod...Loe edasi...
Conversations with My Rabbi is an unforgettable true story and a profound book of wisdom, offering seven timeless teachings for living well in an uncertain world....Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive study of the ways Wales and Welsh people have historically engaged withand imaginedJews, Judaism, and Israel-Palestine. This volume argues that Wales is allosemitic, a term that encompasses both positive and negative...Loe edasi...
Museums in Israel After the Holocaust explores the influence of the traumatic events of the Holocaust on the formation of a cultural heritage policy during the foundational years of the State of Israel....Loe edasi...
Accounting for the Holocaust reveals how the numerical calculations, techniques and reports that constitute accounting practices allowed the attempted annihilation of Jews by the German Nazis and the Italian Fascists to be carried out with machine-l...Loe edasi...
This Palgrave Handbook offers the first comprehensive survey of the history and memory of the Holocaust in Australia. Divided into four parts, the handbook covers key historical connections between Australia and the events of the Holocaust, includ...Loe edasi...
This volume presents an anthology of 19 seminal studies, some for the first time in English, which explore the history and tradition of the ancient relationship between Samaritans and Jews....Loe edasi...
This book presents a new approach to the study of Religious Zionism, and argues that Religious Zionism is a romantic religious nationalist movement in which the modern idea of self-expression forms its philosophical core. This book will appeal to re...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031850738)
This book concerns the native language of the Jews of Shiraz, most of who live in diasporic communities outside of Iran. The language, Judeo-Shirazi, belongs to the Southwest Iranian group, as do most other native vernaculars spoken in southern Ir...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...
This book brings together the scholarship on the topic of Friendship during the Medieval period. It offers an extensive review of the literature that covers discussions on friendship and sometimes love in the three Abrahamic religions Christianity,...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...
Moses Maimonides and Reb Chaim Volozhiner are among the most famous and influential medieval and early modern writers offering theoretical resolutions about how to comprehend the concept of God.Aryeh Botwinick explores some of the broad bas...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Verso Books, ISBN-13: 9781836741756)
The gripping and inspiring account of Jewish socialist struggles against tsarist pogroms, exploitative sweatshops and murderous Nazis across three continentsThe book celebrates Jewish radicalism from the Tsarist Empire to Poland and Ge...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197696798)
Kinesthetic Peoplehood: Jewish Diasporic Dance Migrations explores how people experience diaspora not only through geography or shared histories of exile and displacement, but also through the body itself. Drawing upon extensive archival mat...Loe edasi...
This book provides contemporary insight into what characterizes, sustains and transforms the connectedness of Australian Jewish young adults. Whether ethnocultural or religious, the variability in identity choices of young people who seem to have co...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...
History has shown that antisemitism reactivates and rises like a latent viral infection at the slightest crisis humanity faces. Could literature provide an explanation for its endurance? So, this book takes us back to the nineteenth century with the...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...
The theme of the twelve tribes of Israel is one of the key points for observing the continuity and discontinuity between Judaism and Christianity, which derives from it. It is therefore a very sensitive topic of the parting of the ways, which surpri...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...
The Concept of Holiness (1961) examines one of the most distinctively religious concepts in the sphere of Hebrew and Christian belief. The intimate connections between this concept and the associate notions of fear, power, separatedness, wh...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...
