Abraham: The First Historical Biography
The world's three largest faiths all find a common root in one man: Abraham. Breaking new ground, David Rosenberg portrays Abraham as a man whose whole life, and therefore his legacy, is informed by t...
Words Become Worlds: Semantic Studies Of Genesis 1-11
By carefully analyzing the text-semantic features of the texts of Genesis 1-11, this book offers a quite new perspective on the primaeval history. The first part of the book examines Genesis 1-11, whi...
Heresy And The Politics Of Community: The Jews Of The Fatimid Caliphate
In a book with a bold new view of medieval Jewish history, written in a style accessible to nonspecialists and students as well as to scholars in the field, Marina Rustow changes our understanding of ...
A History Of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy
A noted scholar elucidates the distinguishing characteristics of the works of several Jewish thinkers of the Middle Ages. In addition to summaries of the main arguments and teachings of Moses Maimonid...
Finding Morality In The Diaspora?: Moral Ambiguity And Transformed Morality In The Books Of Esther
The issues of moral character found in the different text versions of the book of Esther are discussed in this work. It uses the different text versions to look at avoidance and transformation, charac...
Judean Antiquities Books 1-4: Translation And Commentary
Flavius Josephus is without a doubt the most important witness to ancient Judaism from the close of the biblical period to the aftermath of the destruction of the temple in 70 CE. His four surviving w...
The Books Of Samuel In The Syriac Version Of Jacob Of Edessa: Text And Translation
An edition and annotated translation of a Syriac manuscript in the British Library, dated 719 AD and containing the Books of Samuel in the version of the Syrian Orthodox scholar Jacob, bishop of Edess...
The Jewish State
'We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and die peacefully in our own homes'. Theodor Herzl's passionate advocacy of the founding of a Jewish state grew out of his conviction that Jews wou...
Judaism: History, Belief And Practice
This all-encompassing textbook is an unrivalled guide to the history, belief and practice of Judaism, written by a scholar and rabbi who is also an experienced university teacher. Beginning with the a...
The Cambridge Companion To American Judaism
This volume provides readers with a comprehensive introduction to the most important and interesting historical and contemporary facets of Judaism in America. Written by twenty-four leading scholars f...
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