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Exploring Mishnah's World(s) - Social Scientific Approaches (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Simcha Fishbane, Calvin... Exploring Mishnah's World(s) - Social Scientific Approaches (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Simcha Fishbane, Calvin Goldscheider, Jack N. Lightstone
R3,395 Discovery Miles 33 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides a new conceptual and methodological framework the social scientific study of Mishnah, as well as a series of case studies that apply social science perspectives to the analysis of Mishnah's evidence. The framework is one that takes full account of the historical and literary-historical issues that impinge upon the use of Mishnah for any scholarly purposes beyond philological study, including social scientific approaches to the materials. Based on the framework, each chapter undertakes, with appropriate methodological caveats, an avenue of inquiry open to the social scientist that brings to bear social scientific questions and modes of inquiry to Mishnaic evidence.

Hamadrikh - The Rabbi's Guide (Hardcover): Avner Ben-Ner Hamadrikh - The Rabbi's Guide (Hardcover)
Avner Ben-Ner; Edited by R Sws; Rabby Hyman E Goldin
R1,571 Discovery Miles 15 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Male Body in Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Theology (Hardcover): Yakir Englander The Male Body in Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Theology (Hardcover)
Yakir Englander
R1,200 Discovery Miles 12 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Kuzari - An Argument for the Faith of Israel (Hardcover): Jehuda Halevi The Kuzari - An Argument for the Faith of Israel (Hardcover)
Jehuda Halevi
R774 R690 Discovery Miles 6 900 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Memoir To Human Emotion- Hardcover edition - Ramblings of a Human Spark (Hardcover): Rebbetzin Hannah Bejarano-Gutierrez A Memoir To Human Emotion- Hardcover edition - Ramblings of a Human Spark (Hardcover)
Rebbetzin Hannah Bejarano-Gutierrez
R673 Discovery Miles 6 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
We Sing We Stay Together: Shabbat Morning Service Prayers (Hardcover): Richard Collis We Sing We Stay Together: Shabbat Morning Service Prayers (Hardcover)
Richard Collis
R807 Discovery Miles 8 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

We Sing We Stay Together: Shabbat Morning Service Prayers is a super user-friendly Sing-Along prayer book for the Shabbat (Saturday) Morning Synagogue Service with TRANSLITERATED ENGLISH TEXT, translation and explanation of the service. Its primary purpose is to make it beyond easy to learn the prayers when listening and singing along to the 64 track music CD album set of the same name; but it also stands, in its own right, as a learning tool explaining the meaning of the words and the service. Our Jewish prayers are beautiful love songs; full of goodness, affection, adoration, hope, kindness and generosity. They are our DNA, even if we do not know them, because these prayers, our religion, have moulded the Jewish people; our way of thinking, education, who we are, and what we represent. Judaism is all about being good and positive for oneself, family, community, the wider world - all out of respect and love for Hashem. It fills me with gratitude, humility, and pride. Our heritage is an intellectual, cultural, spiritual and religious blessing - but we need easy access. I was never able to participate in, let alone enjoy, the Shabbat Morning Service, but I loved those moments when the whole community comes together and sings a few short prayers with moving melodies. There just was not enough of it, we needed more singing, much more! Community is all about family and friends, and we are all friends, it is actually written in one of our prayers. Our prayers are crying out to be sung with great happiness, clearly and harmoniously. Communal prayers are all about belonging, sharing, and that is only possible if we can all join in as equals; and for that we need clearly articulated words that are easy to learn and enjoyable to sing. I dedicate this project of melodizing the Shabbat Morning Service prayers and writing a Sing-Along prayer book to all who love and care for Jewish Continuity, Judaism, Torah, and the Nation-State of the Jewish People, Israel; and so also to all our wonderful friends, the righteous among the nations. Remember to remember that when we sing together, we stay together. AM ISRAEL CHAI - the people of Israel live. With love, and hope for our children, Richard Collis

The Fourth of August Regime and Greek Jewry, 1936-1941 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023): Katerina Lagos The Fourth of August Regime and Greek Jewry, 1936-1941 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Katerina Lagos
R3,885 Discovery Miles 38 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Delving into a traditionally underexplored period, this book focuses on the treatment of Greek Jews under the dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas in the years leading up to the Second World War. Almost 86% of Greek Jews died in the Holocaust, leading many to think this was because of Metaxas and his fascist ideology. However, the situation in Greece was much more complicated; in fact, Metaxas in his policies often attempted to quash anti-Semitism. The Fourth of August Regime and Greek Jewry, 1936-1941 explores how the Jews fit (and did not fit) into Metaxas's vision for Greece. Drawing on unpublished archival sources and Holocaust survivor testimonies, this book presents a ground-breaking contribution to Greek history, the history of Greek anti-Semitism, and sheds light on attitudes towards Jews during the interwar period.

The Jewish-Greek Tradition in Antiquity and the Byzantine Empire (Hardcover): James K. Aitken, James Carleton Paget The Jewish-Greek Tradition in Antiquity and the Byzantine Empire (Hardcover)
James K. Aitken, James Carleton Paget
R3,272 Discovery Miles 32 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Jewish-Greek tradition represents an arguably distinctive strand of Judaism characterized by use of the Greek language and interest in Hellenism. This volume traces the Jewish encounter with Greek culture from the earliest points of contact in antiquity to the end of the Byzantine Empire. It honors Nicholas de Lange, whose distinguished work brought recognition to an undeservedly neglected field, in part by dispelling the common belief that Jewish-Greek culture largely disappeared after 100 CE. The authors examine literature, archaeology, and biblical translations, such as the Septuagint, in order to illustrate the substantial exchange of language and ideas. The Jewish-Greek Tradition in Antiquity and the Byzantine Empire demonstrates the enduring significance of the tradition and will be an essential handbook for anyone interested in Jewish studies, biblical studies, ancient and Byzantine history, or the Greek language.

A Course of Lectures, on the Prophecies That Remain to be Fulfilled. Delivered in the Borough of Southwark, as Also, at the... A Course of Lectures, on the Prophecies That Remain to be Fulfilled. Delivered in the Borough of Southwark, as Also, at the Chapel in Glasshouse-Yard, in the Year 1789. By Elhanan Winchester. ... of 4; Volume 2 (Hardcover)
Elhanan Winchester
R973 Discovery Miles 9 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Kabbalah Unveiled (Hardcover): Christian Knorr Von Rosenroth The Kabbalah Unveiled (Hardcover)
Christian Knorr Von Rosenroth; Translated by Samuel Liddell Mathers MacGregor
R718 Discovery Miles 7 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers was a polyglot; among the languages he had studied were English, French, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Gaelic and Coptic, though he had a greater command of some languages than of others. His translations of such books as The Book of Abramelin (14thC.), Christian Knorr von Rosenroth's The Kabbalah Unveiled (1684), Key of Solomon, The Lesser Key of Solomon are his most well known translations. Christian Knorr von Rosenroth (July 15/16, 1636 - May 4, 1689) was a German Hebraist born at Alt-Raudten, in Silesia. After having completed his studies in the universities of Wittenberg and Leipzig, he traveled through Holland, France, and England. On his return he devoted himself to the study of Oriental languages, especially Hebrew, the rudiments of which he had acquired while abroad. Later he became a diligent student of the Kabbalah, in which he believed to find proofs of the doctrines of Christianity. In his opinion the Adam Kadmon of the cabalists is Jesus, and the three highest sefirot represent the Trinity. Rosenroth intended to make a Latin translation of the Zohar and the Ti unim, and he published as preliminary studies the first two volumes of his Kabbala Denudata, sive Doctrina Hebr orum Transcendentalis et Metaphysica Atque Theologia (Sulzbach, 1677-78). They contain a cabalistic nomenclature, the Idra Rabbah and Idra Zu a and the Sifra di- eni'uta, cabalistic essays of Naphtali Herz ben Jacob Elhanan.

Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism, Volume 13 (Hardcover): Stanley E. Porter, Matthew Brook O'Donnell, Wendy... Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism, Volume 13 (Hardcover)
Stanley E. Porter, Matthew Brook O'Donnell, Wendy Porter
R987 R848 Discovery Miles 8 480 Save R139 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Attitudes to Gentiles in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity (Hardcover, New): David C. Sim, James S. McLaren Attitudes to Gentiles in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity (Hardcover, New)
David C. Sim, James S. McLaren
R4,247 Discovery Miles 42 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume describes the attitudes towards Gentiles in both ancient Judaism and the early Christian tradition. The Jewish relationship with and views about the Gentiles played an important part in Jewish self-definition, especially in the Diaspora where Jews formed the minority among larger Gentile populations. Jewish attitudes towards the Gentiles can be found in the writings of prominent Jewish authors (Josephus and Philo), sectarian movements and texts (the Qumran community, apocalyptic literature, Jesus) and in Jewish institutions such as the Jerusalem Temple and the synagogue. In the Christian tradition, which began as a Jewish movement but developed quickly into a predominantly Gentile tradition, the role and status of Gentile believers in Jesus was always of crucial significance. Did Gentile believers need to convert to Judaism as an essential component of their affiliation with Jesus, or had the appearance of the messiah rendered such distinctions invalid? This volume assesses the wide variety of viewpoints in terms of attitudes towards Gentiles and the status and expectations of Gentiles in the Christian church.

The Evangelical Counter-Enlightenment - From Ecstasy to Fundamentalism in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam in the 18th Century... The Evangelical Counter-Enlightenment - From Ecstasy to Fundamentalism in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam in the 18th Century (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
William R. Everdell
R3,444 Discovery Miles 34 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This contribution to the global history of ideas uses biographical profiles of 18th-century contemporaries to find what Salafist and Sufi Islam, Evangelical Protestant and Jansenist Catholic Christianity, and Hasidic Judaism have in common. Such figures include Muhammad Ibn abd al-Wahhab, Count Nikolaus Zinzendorf, Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Israel Ba'al Shem Tov. The book is a unique and comprehensive study of the conflicted relationship between the "evangelical" movements in all three Abrahamic religions and the ideas of the Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment. Centered on the 18th century, the book reaches back to the third century for precedents and context, and forward to the 21st for the legacy of these movements. This text appeals to students and researchers in many fields, including Philosophy and Religion, their histories, and World History, while also appealing to the interested lay reader.

An Examination of the Singular in Maimonides and Spinoza - Prophecy, Intellect, and Politics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Norman... An Examination of the Singular in Maimonides and Spinoza - Prophecy, Intellect, and Politics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Norman L. Whitman
R2,890 Discovery Miles 28 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents an alternative reading of the respective works of Moses Maimonides and Baruch Spinoza. It argues that both thinkers are primarily concerned with the singular perfection of the complete human being rather than with attaining only rational knowledge. Complete perfection of a human being expresses the unique concord of concrete activities, such as ethics, politics, and psychology, with reason. The necessity of concrete historical activities in generating perfection entails that both thinkers are not primarily concerned with an "escape" to a metaphysical realm of transcendent or universal truths via cognition. Instead, both are focused on developing and cultivating individuals' concrete desires and activities to the potential benefit of all. This book argues that rather than solely focusing on individual enlightenment, both thinkers are primarily concerned with a political life and the improvement of fellow citizens' capacities. A key theme throughout the text is that both Maimonides and Spinoza realize that an apolitical life undermines individual and social flourishing.

Conversations About Religion (Hardcover): Howard Burton Conversations About Religion (Hardcover)
Howard Burton
R855 Discovery Miles 8 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Beyond Faith (Hardcover): Aaron MINSKY Beyond Faith (Hardcover)
Aaron MINSKY
R945 Discovery Miles 9 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Five Megilloth (Soncino Books of the Bible) (Hardcover): A. Cohen The Five Megilloth (Soncino Books of the Bible) (Hardcover)
A. Cohen
R768 R684 Discovery Miles 6 840 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Between Religion and Reason - The Dialectical Position in Contemporary Jewish Thought from Rav Kook to Rav Shagar (Hardcover):... Between Religion and Reason - The Dialectical Position in Contemporary Jewish Thought from Rav Kook to Rav Shagar (Hardcover)
Ephraim Chamiel, Avi Kallenbach
R3,262 Discovery Miles 32 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The present book is a sequel to Ephraim Chamiel's two previous works The Middle Way and The Dual Truth-studies dedicated to the "middle" trend in modern Jewish thought, that is, those positions that sought to combine tradition and modernity, and offered a variety of approaches for contending with the tension between science and revelation and between reason and religion. The present book explores contemporary Jewish thinkers who have adopted one of these integrated approaches-namely the dialectical approach. Some of these thinkers maintain that the aforementioned tension-the rift within human consciousness between intellect and emotion, mind and heart-can be mended. Others, however, think that the dialectic between the two poles of this tension is inherently irresolvable, a view reminiscent of the medieval "dual truth" approach. Some thinkers are unclear on this point, and those who study them debate whether or not they successfully resolved the tension and offered a means of reconciliation. The author also offers his views on these debates.This book explores the dialectical approaches of Rav Kook, Rav Soloveitchik, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, Samuel Hugo Bergman, Leo Strauss, Ernst Simon, Emil Fackenheim, Rabbi Mordechai Breuer, his uncle Isaac Breuer, Tamar Ross, Rabbi Shagar, Moshe Meir, Micah Goodman and Elchanan Shilo. It also discusses the interpretations of these thinkers offered by scholars such as Michael Rosenak, Avinoam Rosenak, Eliezer Schweid, Aviezer Ravitzky, Avi Sagi, Binyamin Ish-Shalom, Ehud Luz, Dov Schwartz, Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, Lawrence Kaplan, and Haim Rechnitzer. The author questions some of these approaches and offers ideas of his own. This study concludes that many scholars bore witness to the dialectical tension between reason and revelation; only some believed that a solution was possible. That being said, and despite the paradoxical nature of the dual truth approach (which maintains that two contradictory truths exist and we must live with both of them in this world until a utopian future or the advent of the Messiah), increasing numbers of thinkers today are accepting it. In doing so, they are eschewing delusional and apologetic views such as the identicality and compartmental approaches that maintain that tensions and contradictions are unacceptable.

In and Around Maimonides - Original Essays (Hardcover): Y Langermann In and Around Maimonides - Original Essays (Hardcover)
Y Langermann
R3,571 Discovery Miles 35 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In and Around Maimonides presents eight highly focused studies on Moses Maimonides and those around him.

Jewish Women's History from Antiquity to the Present (Hardcover): Rebecca Lynn Winer, Federica Francesconi Jewish Women's History from Antiquity to the Present (Hardcover)
Rebecca Lynn Winer, Federica Francesconi; Contributions by Rachel Adelman, Natalia Aleksiun, Dianne Ashton, …
R2,980 Discovery Miles 29 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Jewish Women's History from Antiquity to the Present is broad in geographical scope exploring Jewish women's lives in what is now Eastern and Western Europe, Britain, Israel, Turkey, North Africa, and North America. Editors Federica Francesconi and Rebecca Lynn Winer focus the volume on reconstructing the experiences of ordinary women and situating those of the extraordinary and famous within the gender systems of their times and places. The twenty-one contributors analyze the history of Jewish women in the light of gender as religious, cultural, and social construct. They apply new methodologies in approaching rabbinic sources, prescriptive literature, and musar (ethics), interrogating them about female roles in the biblical and rabbinic imaginations, and in relation to women's restrictions and quotidian actions on the ground. They explore Jewish's women experiences of persecution, displacement, immigration, integration, and social mobility from the medieval age through the nineteenth century. And for the modern era, this volume assesses women's spiritual developments; how they experienced changes in religious and political societies, both Jewish and non-Jewish; the history of women in the Holocaust, their struggle through persecution and deportation; women's everyday concerns, Jewish lesbian activism, and the spiritual sphere in the contemporary era. Contributors reinterpret rabbinical responsa through new lenses and study a plethora of unpublished and previously unknown archival sources, such as community ordinances and court records, alongside autobiographies, letters, poetry, narrative prose, devotional objects, the built environment, illuminated manuscripts, and early printed books. This publication is significant within the field of Jewish studies and beyond; the essays include comparative material and have the potential to reach scholarly audiences in many related fields but are also written to be accessible to all, with the introductions in every chapter aimed at orienting the enthusiast from outside academia to each time and place.

A Study of Jewish Refugees in China (1933-1945) - History, Theories and the Chinese Pattern (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Guang Pan A Study of Jewish Refugees in China (1933-1945) - History, Theories and the Chinese Pattern (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Guang Pan
R3,171 Discovery Miles 31 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book comprehensively discusses the topic of Jews fleeing the Holocaust to China. It is divided into three parts: historical facts; theories; and the Chinese model. The first part addresses the formation, development and end of the Jewish refugee community in China, offering a systematic review of the history of Jewish Diaspora, including historical and recent events bringing European Jews to China; Jewish refugees arriving in China: route, time, number and settlement; the Jewish refugee community in Shanghai; Jewish refugees in other Chinese cities; the "Final Solution" for Jewish refugees in Shanghai and the "Designated Area for Stateless Refugees"; friendship between the Jewish refugees and the local Chinese people; the departure of Jews and the end of the Jewish refugee community in China. The second part provides deeper perspectives on the Jewish refugees in China and the relationship between Jews and the Chinese. The third part explores the Chinese model in the history of Jewish Diaspora, focusing on the Jews fleeing the Holocaust to China and compares the Jewish refugees in China with those in other parts of the world. It also introduces the Chinese model concept and presents the five features of the model.

Essay on Transcendental Philosophy (Hardcover): Salomon Maimon Essay on Transcendental Philosophy (Hardcover)
Salomon Maimon; Translated by Alistair Welchman, Henry Somers-Hall, Merten Reglitz, Nick Midgley
R3,547 Discovery Miles 35 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Salomon Maimon was one of the most important and influential Jewish intellectuals of the Enlightenment. This is the first English translation of his principal work, first published in Berlin in 1790. "Essay on Transcendental Philosophy" presents the first English translation of Salomon Maimon's principal work, originally published in Berlin in 1790. This book expresses his response to the revolution in philosophy wrought by Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason". Kant himself was full of praise for the book and it went on to exercise a decisive influence on the course of post-Kantian German idealism. Yet, despite his importance for the work of such key thinkers as Fichte, Schelling and Hegel, Maimon never achieved the prominence he deserved. Today interest in Maimon's work is increasing rapidly, thanks in large part to prominent acclaim by Gilles Deleuze. This long-overdue translation brings Maimon's seminal text to an English-speaking audience for the first time. The text includes a comprehensive introduction, a glossary, translator's notes and a full bibliography. It also includes translations of correspondence between Maimon and Kant and a letter Maimon wrote to a Berlin journal clarifying the philosophical position of the Essay, all of which bring alive the context of the book's publication for the modern reader.

Jewish and Christian Views on Bodily Pleasure (Hardcover): Robert Cherry Jewish and Christian Views on Bodily Pleasure (Hardcover)
Robert Cherry; Foreword by Donna Schaper, Valerie Holly
R1,257 R1,048 Discovery Miles 10 480 Save R209 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Book of Jasher (Hardcover): J. Asher The Book of Jasher (Hardcover)
J. Asher; Introduction by Fabio De Araujo; Translated by Moses Samuel
R708 Discovery Miles 7 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria (Hardcover): Maren R. Niehoff Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria (Hardcover)
Maren R. Niehoff
R2,820 Discovery Miles 28 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Systematically reading Jewish exegesis in light of Homeric scholarship, this book argues that more than 2000 years ago Alexandrian Jews developed critical and literary methods of Bible interpretation which are still extremely relevant today. Maren R. Niehoff provides a detailed analysis of Alexandrian Bible interpretation, from the second century BCE through newly discovered fragments to the exegetical work done by Philo. Niehoff shows that Alexandrian Jews responded in a great variety of ways to the Homeric scholarship developed at the Museum. Some Jewish scholars used the methods of their Greek colleagues to investigate whether their Scripture contained myths shared by other nations, while others insisted that significant differences existed between Judaism and other cultures. This book is vital for any student of ancient Judaism, early Christianity and Hellenistic culture.

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