"The Bedside Torah" guides you into the wisdom, counsel, and holiness of the sacred text that is the center of Jewish spirituality. Rabbi Bradley Artson, one of the truly inspirational and knowledgeab...
Written by one of history's great exegetes, Maimonides' "Guide for the Perplexed" offers a profound analysis of biblical teachings. It includes interpretations of many words and homonyms found in the ...
We think of the Hebrew Bible as the Book--and yet it was produced by a largely nonliterate culture in which writing, editing, copying, interpretation, and public reading were the work of a professiona...
In his youth, R. Saadia Gaon (882-942 CE) dreamed of publishing a proper translation of the Torah for Arabic-speaking Jews, to replace the overly literal ones in vogue at the time. His dream was fulfi...
Uses insights from literary criticism as a heuristic for investigating the significance of the interchange between Yhwh and Elohim within the Pentateuch based upon structural indicators in the text it...
The Exodus, the central event in the historiography of the Bible and in the collective memory of the biblical period, represents an historical watershed; it shapes the recounting of events both before...
The recovery of 800 documents in the eleven caves on the Northwest shores of the Dead Sea is one of the most sensational archaeological discoveries in the Holy Land. This title demonstrates how the sc...
According to Rodger Kamenetz, Allen Afterman's Kabbalah and Consciousness makes the major traditions of Jewish mysticism more clear and profoundly revealing than any other work on the subject. Elie Wi...
The desire of the Kabbalah student is to reach higher levels of spiritual attainment, yet it is difficult to imagine the sensations of the spiritual world. This anthology is comprised of Kabbalistic t...
An eminent Jewish scholar examines the total body of texts, legends, and traditions referring to the Binding of Isaac, and provides the paradigm for showing how legend and history interact, how the pa...
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