Everyone has heard of of the Dead Sea Scrolls, but amidst the conspiracies, the politics, and the sensational claims, it can be difficult to separate myth from reality. Here, Timothy Lim explores the ...
"Narrative Art and Poetry in the Books of Samuel" is the vast undertaking to interpret all the material in Samuel. Everything that the text has to offer can only be understood and appreciated to the f...
The targumic interpretative renderings are a source of fascination. Close examination of the Targum to the books of Kings shows a preponderance of apparently didactic readings conforming with the Targ...
Now updated and broadened, this acclaimed book spans centuries and circles the globe to tell the astounding 4,000-year story of the Jewish people and their triumphant contributions to the history of A...
The authors have asked of the documents of the Dead Sea Library found at Qumran a simple question: how does each participate in a single Judaic religious system? They propose a reading of the Scrolls ...
Survival in Auschwitz: If This Is a Man is a book written by the Italian author, Primo Levi. It describes his experiences in the concentration camp at Auschwitz during the Second World War. Levi, th...
This volume publishes papers delivered at the Second International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books (Papa, Hungary). This conference dealt with the Books of the Maccabees. As such, this was th...
In the first English-language edition of a general, synthetic history of French Jewry from antiquity to the present, Esther Benbassa tells the intriguing tale of the social, economic, and cultural vic...
Urbanism in ancient society has now become an important topic for both classical and ancient Near Eastern scholars. Equally, the question of prophecy as social institution and literary corpus has been...
The death penalty in classical Judaism has been a highly politicized subject in modern scholarship. Enlightenment attacks on the Talmud's legitimacy led scholars to use the Talmud's criminal law as ev...
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