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Studies in Judaism and Pluralism - Honoring the 60th Anniversary of the Academy for Jewish Religion (Hardcover): Leonard Levin Studies in Judaism and Pluralism - Honoring the 60th Anniversary of the Academy for Jewish Religion (Hardcover)
Leonard Levin
R1,527 Discovery Miles 15 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Chronicles and the Priestly Literature of the Hebrew Bible (Hardcover): Jaeyoung Jeon, Louis C. Jonker Chronicles and the Priestly Literature of the Hebrew Bible (Hardcover)
Jaeyoung Jeon, Louis C. Jonker
R3,227 Discovery Miles 32 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The study of the Books of Chronicles has focused in the past mainly on its literary relationship to Historical Books such as Samuel and Kings. Less attention was payed to its possible relationships to the priestly literature. Against this backdrop, this volume aims to examine the literary and socio-historical relationship between the Books of Chronicles and the priestly literature (in the Pentateuch and in Ezekiel). Since Chronicles and Pentateuch (and also Ezekiel) studies have been regarded as separate fields of study, we invited experts from both fields in order to open a space for fruitful discussions with each other. The contributions deal with connections and interactions between specific texts, ideas, and socio-historical contexts of the literary works, as well as with broad observations of the relationship between them.

Ezekiel's Visionary Temple in Babylonian Context (Hardcover): Tova Ganzel Ezekiel's Visionary Temple in Babylonian Context (Hardcover)
Tova Ganzel
R3,200 Discovery Miles 32 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Ezekiel's Visionary Temple in Babylonian Context examines evidence from Babylonian sources to better understand Ezekiel's vision of the future temple as it appears in chapters 40-48. Tova Ganzel argues that Neo-Babylonian temples provide a meaningful backdrop against which many unique features of Ezekiel's vision can and should be interpreted. In pointing to the similarities between Neo-Babylonian temples and the description in the book of Ezekiel, Ganzel demonstrates how these temples served as a context for the prophet's visions and describes the extent to which these similarities provide a further basis for broader research of the connections between Babylonia and the Bible. Ultimately, she argues the extent to which the book of Ezekiel models its temple on those of the Babylonians. Thus, this book suggests a comprehensive picture of the book of Ezekiel's worldview and to contextualize its visionary temple by comparing its vision to the actual temples surrounding the Judeans in exile.

The Essential Writings of Abraham Isaac Kook (Hardcover): Abraham Isaac Kook The Essential Writings of Abraham Isaac Kook (Hardcover)
Abraham Isaac Kook; Edited by Ben Zion Bokser
R961 Discovery Miles 9 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
To Be a Jew - Joseph Chayim Brenner as a Jewish Existentialist (Hardcover): Avi Sagi To Be a Jew - Joseph Chayim Brenner as a Jewish Existentialist (Hardcover)
Avi Sagi
R4,924 Discovery Miles 49 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

To Be a Jew deals with the question of the meaning and rationale that the writer Joseph Chayim Brenner attributes to Jewish existence. Many of Brenner's readers assumed that Brenner completely negated Jewish existence and sought to form a new way of life completely disconnected from the traditional Jewish existence. In contrast to this perception, Avi Sagi proves that not only did Brenner not reject the value of the Jewish existence, but the core of his creation was written out of a deep Jewish commitment. Brenner's greatest innovation is found in his new conception of Jewish existence. To be a Jew, according to Brenner, involves the willingness to discover solidarity with actual Jews, to participate in a society in which Jews can live a free life and to fashion their culture as they wish. Sagi presents the idea that Brenner's is not a Utopian, but a realistic, conception of Jewish existence. Thus this unique conception of Jewish existence is founded on an infrastructure of existential thought.

Early Days - Volume 1 of 5 (Hardcover, 2nd Second with Extra Resources ed.): Mark Timothy Morgan Early Days - Volume 1 of 5 (Hardcover, 2nd Second with Extra Resources ed.)
Mark Timothy Morgan
R712 Discovery Miles 7 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Dead Sea Scrolls for a New Millennium (Hardcover): Phillip R. Callaway The Dead Sea Scrolls for a New Millennium (Hardcover)
Phillip R. Callaway
R1,152 R970 Discovery Miles 9 700 Save R182 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ben Sira and the Men Who Handle Books - Gender and the Rise of Canon-Consciousness (Hardcover, New): Claudia V. Camp Ben Sira and the Men Who Handle Books - Gender and the Rise of Canon-Consciousness (Hardcover, New)
Claudia V. Camp
R1,835 Discovery Miles 18 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What have women to do with the rise of canon-consciousness in early Judaism? Quite a lot, Claudia Camp argues, if the book written by the early second-century BCE scribe, Ben Sira, is any indication. One of the few true misogynists in the biblical tradition, Ben Sira is beset with gender anxiety, fear that his women will sully his honor, their shame causing his name to fail from the eternal memory of his people. Yet the same Ben Sira appropriates the idealized figure of cosmic Woman Wisdom from Proverbs, and identifies her with 'the book of the covenant of the most high God, the law that Moses commanded us'. This, then, is Ben Sira's dilemma: a woman (Wisdom) can admit him to eternity but his own women can keep him out. It is Camp's thesis that these conflicted perceptions of gender are fundamental to Ben Sira's appropriation and production of authoritative religious literature.

Never Again ! - A Program for Survival (Hardcover): Meir Kahane Never Again ! - A Program for Survival (Hardcover)
Meir Kahane
R979 R840 Discovery Miles 8 400 Save R139 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office (Volume I) (Hardcover): Otto, Loth, A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office (Volume I) (Hardcover)
Otto, Loth,
R1,146 Discovery Miles 11 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Paul and Judaism - Crosscurrents in Pauline Exegesis and the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations (Hardcover): Reimund... Paul and Judaism - Crosscurrents in Pauline Exegesis and the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations (Hardcover)
Reimund Bieringer, Didier Pollefeyt
R4,243 Discovery Miles 42 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The New Perspective on Paul cleared Judaism contemporary to Paul of the accusation that it was a religion based on works of righteousness. Reactions to the New Perspective, both positive and critical, and sometimes even strongly negative, reflect a more fundamental problem in the reception of this paradigm: the question of continuity and discontinuity between Judaism and Christianity and its assumed implications for Jewish-Christian dialogue. A second key problem revolves around Pauls understanding of salvation as exclusive, inclusive or pluralist. The contributions in the present volume represent at least six approaches that can be plotted along this axis, considering Pauls theology in its Jewish context. William S. Campbell and Thomas R. Blanton consider Pauls Covenantal Theology, Michael Bachman provides an exegetical study of Paul, Israel and the Gentiles, and Mark D. Nanos considers Paul and Torah. After this chapters by Philip A. Cunningham, John T. Pawlikowski, Hans-Joachim Sander, and Hans-Herman Henrix give particular weight to questions of Jewish-Christian dialogue. The book finishes with an epilogue by pioneer of the New Perspective James D.G. Dunn.

The Trias of Maimonides / Die Trias des Maimonides - Jewish, Arabic, and Ancient Culture of Knowledge / Judische, arabische und... The Trias of Maimonides / Die Trias des Maimonides - Jewish, Arabic, and Ancient Culture of Knowledge / Judische, arabische und antike Wissenskultur (Hardcover, Reprint 2012)
Georges Tamer
R5,671 R5,062 Discovery Miles 50 620 Save R609 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Jewish religion, Greek philosophy and Islamic thought mold the philosophy and theology of Maimonides and characterize his work as an excellent example of the fruitful transfer of culture in the Middle Ages. The authors show various aspects of this cultural cross-fertilization, despite religious and ethnic differences. The studies promptthoughts on a question which is important for the present and the future: How may the different religions, cultures and concepts of knowledge continue to be conveyed in synthesis? The volume publishes the lectures given at the July 2004 international congress at the occasion of the 800th anniversary of Maimonidesa (TM) death.

Covenant & Conversation - Leviticus, the Book of Holiness (Hardcover): Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Covenant & Conversation - Leviticus, the Book of Holiness (Hardcover)
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
R625 Discovery Miles 6 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter? (Hardcover): Erich S. Gruen Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter? (Hardcover)
Erich S. Gruen
R2,473 Discovery Miles 24 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This study raises that difficult and complicated question on a broad front, taking into account the expressions and attitudes of a wide variety of Greek, Roman, Jewish, and early Christian sources, including Herodotus, Polybius, Cicero, Philo, and Paul. It approaches the topic of ethnicity through the lenses of the ancients themselves rather than through the imposition of modern categories, labels, and frameworks. A central issue guides the course of the work: did ancient writers reflect upon collective identity as determined by common origins and lineage or by shared traditions and culture?

Parting of the Ways - Between Christianity and Judaism and Their Significance for the Character of Christianity (Hardcover):... Parting of the Ways - Between Christianity and Judaism and Their Significance for the Character of Christianity (Hardcover)
James D.G. Dunn
R1,905 R1,548 Discovery Miles 15 480 Save R357 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Parting of the Ways is James Dunn's classic exploration of the important questions that surround the emergence of Christian distinctiveness and the pulling apart of Christianity and Judaism in the first century of our era. The book begins by surveying the way in which questions have been approached since the time of F C Baur in the nineteenth century. The author then presents the four pillars of Judaism: monotheism, election and land, Torah and Temple. He then examines various issues which arose with the emergence of Jesus: Jesus and the temple; the Stephen affair; temple and cult in earliest Christianity; Jesus, Israel and the law; 'the end of the law'; and Jesus' teaching on God. The theme of 'one God, one Lord', and the controversy between Jews and Christians over the unity of God, lead to a concluding chapter on the parting of the ways. The issues are presented with clarity and the views and findings of others are drawn together and added to his own, to make up this comprehensive volume. James Dunn was Lightfoot Professor of Divinity at the University of Durham until his recent retirement. He is the author of numerous best-selling books and acknowledged as one of the world's leading experts on New Testament study.

Communings of the Spirit - The Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan, Volume 2: 1934 - 1941 (Hardcover): Mel Scult Communings of the Spirit - The Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan, Volume 2: 1934 - 1941 (Hardcover)
Mel Scult
R1,515 Discovery Miles 15 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Mordecai M. Kaplan (1881-1983), founder of Reconstructionism, is the preeminent American Jewish thinker and rabbi of our times. His life embodies the American Jewish experience of the first half of the twentieth century. With passionate intensity and uncommon candor, Kaplan compulsively recorded his experience in his journals, some ten thousand pages. At times, Kaplan thought his ideas were too radical or complex to share with his congregation, and what he could not share publicly he put into his journals. In this diary we find his uncensored thoughts on a variety of subjects. Thus, the diary was much more sophisticated and radical than anything he published while living. While in the first volume of Communings of the Spirit, editor Mel Scult covers Kaplan's early years as a rabbi, teacher of rabbis, and community leader, in the second volume we experience through Kaplan the economic problems of the thirties and their shattering impact on the Jewish community. It becomes clear that Kaplan, like so many others during this period, was attracted to the solutions offered by communism, notwithstanding some hesitation because of the anti-religiousnature of communist ideology. Through Kaplan we come to understand the Jewish community in the yishuv (Jews in Palestine) as Kaplan spent two years teaching at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and his close circle of friends included Martin Buber, Judah Leon Magnes, and other prominent personalities. It is also during this time that the specter of Nazi Germany begins to haunt American Jews, and Kaplan, sensitive to the threats, is obsessed with Jewish security, both in Europe and Palestine. More than anything else, this diary is the chronicle of Kaplan's spiritual and intellectual journey in the early 1930s and 1940s. With honesty and vivid detail,Kaplan explores his evolving beliefs on religious naturalism and his uncertainties and self-doubts as he grapples with a wide range of theological issues.

Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic (Hardcover): Alexandra Cuffel Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic (Hardcover)
Alexandra Cuffel
R4,300 Discovery Miles 43 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic, Alexandra Cuffel analyzes medieval Jewish, Christian, and Muslim uses of gendered bodily imagery and metaphors of impurity in their visual and verbal polemic against one another. Drawing from a rich array of sources-including medical texts, bestiaries, Muslim apocalyptic texts, midrash, biblical commentaries, kabbalistic literature, Hebrew liturgical poetry, and theological tracts from late antiquity to the mid-fourteenth century-Cuffel examines attitudes toward the corporeal body and its relationship to divinity. She shows that these religious traditions shared notions of the human body as distasteful, with many believers viewing corporeality and communion with the divine as incompatible. In particular, she explores how authors from each religious tradition targeted the woman's body as antithetical to holiness. Foul smell, bodily fluids and states, and animals were employed by these religious communities as powerful tropes, which they used to mark their religious opponents as sinful, filthy, and unacceptable. By defining and denigrating the religious "other," each group wielded bodily insult as a means of resistance, of inciting violence, and of creating community boundaries. Representations of impurity or filth designed to inspire revulsion served also to reassure audiences of their religious and sometimes physical superiority and to encourage oppressive measures toward the minority. Yet, even in the midst of opposing one another, their very polemic demonstrates that Jews, Christians, and Muslims held basic cultural assumptions and symbols in common while inflecting their meanings differently.

The Book Of Enoch (Hardcover): Robert Henry Charles The Book Of Enoch (Hardcover)
Robert Henry Charles
R1,004 Discovery Miles 10 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Everyman's Talmud - The Major Teachings of the Rabbinic Sages (Hardcover): Abraham Cohen Everyman's Talmud - The Major Teachings of the Rabbinic Sages (Hardcover)
Abraham Cohen
R1,090 R979 Discovery Miles 9 790 Save R111 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The First Comprehensive Summary, for the English Reader, of the Teaching of the Talmud and the Rabbis on Ethics, Religion, Folk-lore and Jurisprudence. Cohen does an excellent job of presenting the origins of Talmudic literature and summarizing in a meaningful way the many doctrines it contains.

Midrash and Mishnah - a Study in the Early History of TheHalakhah (Hardcover): Jacob Z (Jacob Zallel) Lauterbach Midrash and Mishnah - a Study in the Early History of TheHalakhah (Hardcover)
Jacob Z (Jacob Zallel) Lauterbach
R825 Discovery Miles 8 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Confronting Genocide - Judaism, Christianity, Islam (Hardcover, New): Steven Leonard Jacobs Confronting Genocide - Judaism, Christianity, Islam (Hardcover, New)
Steven Leonard Jacobs; Contributions by Paul R. Bartrop, Donald J. Dietrich, Mohammad Omar Farooq, Zev Garber, …
R3,528 R3,164 Discovery Miles 31 640 Save R364 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Confronting Genocide: Judaism, Christianity, Islam is the first collection of essays by recognized scholars primarily in the field of religious studies to address this timely topic. In addition to theoretical thinking about both religion and genocide and the relationship between the two, these authors look at the tragedies of the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, Rwanda, Bosnia, and the Sudan from their own unique vantage point. In so doing, they supply a much needed additional contribution to the ongoing conversations proffered by historians, political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, and legal scholars regarding prevention, intervention, and punishment.

Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism, v. 6 (Hardcover, New): Stanley E. Porter, Matthew Brook O'Donnell, Wendy... Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism, v. 6 (Hardcover, New)
Stanley E. Porter, Matthew Brook O'Donnell, Wendy Porter
R2,866 Discovery Miles 28 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the sixth volume of the hard-copy edition of a journal that has been published online (www.jgrchj.net) since 2000. Volume 1 was for 2000, Volume 2 was for 2001-2005, Volume 3 for 2006, Volume 4 for 2007, Volume 5 for 2008 and Volume 6 for 2009. As they appear, the hardcopy editions will replace the online materials. The scope of JGRChJ is the texts, language and cultures of the Graeco-Roman world of early Christianity and Judaism. The papers published in JGRChJ are designed to pay special attention to the 'larger picture' of politics, culture, religion and language, engaging as well with modern theoretical approaches.

Law, Reason, and Morality in Medieval Jewish Philosophy - Saadia Gaon, Bahya ibn Pakuda, and Moses Maimonides (Hardcover):... Law, Reason, and Morality in Medieval Jewish Philosophy - Saadia Gaon, Bahya ibn Pakuda, and Moses Maimonides (Hardcover)
Jonathan Jacobs
R3,358 Discovery Miles 33 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The medieval Jewish philosophers Saadia Gaon, Bahya ibn Pakuda, and Moses Maimonides made significant contributions to moral philosophy in ways that remain relevant today.
Jonathan Jacobs explicates shared, general features of the thought of these thinkers and also highlights their distinctive contributions to understanding moral thought and moral life. The rationalism of these thinkers is a key to their views. They argued that seeking rational understanding of Torah's commandments and the created order is crucial to fulfilling the covenant with God, and that intellectual activity and ethical activity form a spiral of mutual reinforcement. In their view, rational comprehension and ethical action jointly constitute a life of holiness. Their insights are important in their own right and are also relevant to enduring issues in moral epistemology and moral psychology, resonating even in the contemporary context.
The central concerns of this study include (i) the relations between revelation and rational justification, (ii) the roles of intellectual virtue and ethical virtue in human perfection, (iii) the implications of theistic commitments for topics such as freedom of the will, the acquisition of virtues and vices, repentance, humility, and forgiveness, (iv) contrasts between medieval Jewish moral thought and the practical wisdom approach to moral philosophy and the natural law approach to it, and (v) the universality and objectivity of moral elements of Torah.

Literary Depictions of the Scribal Profession in the Story of Ahiqar and Jeremiah 36 (Hardcover): James D. Moore Literary Depictions of the Scribal Profession in the Story of Ahiqar and Jeremiah 36 (Hardcover)
James D. Moore
R3,203 Discovery Miles 32 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the first study to compare the allusions to scribal culture found in the Aramaic Story of Ahiqar and the Hebrew Tale of Jeremiah and Baruch's Scroll in Jeremiah 36. It is shown that disguised in the royal propagandistic message of Ahiqar is a sophisticated Aramaic critique on the social practices of Akkadian scribal culture. Jeremiah 36, however, uses loci of scribal activity as well as allusions to scribal interactions and the techniques of the scribal craft to construct a subversive tale. When studied from a comparative perspective it is argued that the Story of Ahiqar, which has long been associated with the well-known court tale genre, is an example of a subgenre which is here called the scribal conflict narrative, and Jeremiah 36 is found to be a second example of or a response to it. This observation is arrived at by means of rigorous manuscript examination combined with narrative analysis, which identified, among other things, the development of autobiographical and biographical styles of the same ancient narrative. This study not only provides new perspectives on scribal culture, Ahiqar studies, and Jeremiah studies, but it may have far reaching implications for other ancient sources.

On Wings of Prayer - Sources of Jewish Worship; Essays in Honor of Professor Stefan C. Reif on the Occasion of his... On Wings of Prayer - Sources of Jewish Worship; Essays in Honor of Professor Stefan C. Reif on the Occasion of his Seventy-fifth Birthday (Hardcover)
Nuria Calduch-Benages, Michael W Duggan, Dalia Marx
R3,396 Discovery Miles 33 960 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The contributors and editors dedicate this volume of research to Professor Stefan C. Reif on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Together these twenty papers reflect our appreciation for his exemplary scholarship and lifelong commitment to acquaint our world with the theological and cultural riches of Jewish Studies. This collection reflects the breadth of Prof. Reif's interests insofar as it is a combination of Second Temple studies and Jewish studies on the roots of Jewish prayer and liturgy which is his main field of expertise. Contributions on biblical and second temple studies cover Amos, Ben Sira, Esther, 2 Maccabees, Judith, Wisdom, Qumran Psalms, and James. Contributions on Jewish studies cover nuptial and benedictions after meals, Adon Olam, Passover Seder, Amidah, the Medieval Palestinian Tefillat ha-Shir, and other aspects of rabbinic liturgy. Moreover, the regional diversity of scholars from Israel, continental Europe, the United Kingdom, Ireland and North America mirrors Stefan's travels as a lecturer and the reach of his publications. The volume includes a foreword of appreciation and a bibliographic list of Professor Reif's works.

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