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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
R919 Discovery Miles 9 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tri-Faith America - How Catholics and Jews Held Postwar America to Its Protestant Promise (Hardcover): Kevin M Schultz Tri-Faith America - How Catholics and Jews Held Postwar America to Its Protestant Promise (Hardcover)
Kevin M Schultz
R1,259 Discovery Miles 12 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

President Franklin D. Roosevelt put it bluntly, if privately, in 1942-the United States was "a Protestant country," he said, "and the Catholics and Jews are here under sufferance."
In Tri-Faith America, Kevin Schultzexplains how the United States left behind this idea that it was "a Protestant nation" and replaced it with a new national image, one premised on the notion that the country was composed of three separate, equally American faiths-Protestants, Catholics, and Jews. Tracing the origins of the tri-faith idea to the early twentieth century, when Catholic and Jewish immigration forced Protestant Social Gospelers to combine forces with Catholic and Jewish relief agencies, Tri-Faith America shows how the tri-faith idea gathered momentum after World War I, promoted by public relations campaigns, interfaith organizations, and the government, to the point where, by the end of World War II and into the early years of the Cold War, the idea was becoming widely accepted, particularly in the armed forces, fraternities, neighborhoods, social organizations, and schools.
Tri-Faith America also shows how postwar Catholics and Jews used the new image to force the country to confront the challenges of pluralism. Should Protestant bibles be allowed on public school grounds? Should Catholic and Jewish fraternities be allowed to exclude Protestants? Should the government be allowed to count Americans by religion? Challenging the image of the conformist 1950s, Schultz describes how Americans were vigorously debating the merits of recognizing pluralism, paving the way for the civil rights movement and leaving an enduring mark on American culture.

Conversations About Religion (Hardcover): Howard Burton Conversations About Religion (Hardcover)
Howard Burton
R794 Discovery Miles 7 940 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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
R662 Discovery Miles 6 620 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Beyond Faith (Hardcover): Aaron MINSKY Beyond Faith (Hardcover)
Aaron MINSKY
R893 Discovery Miles 8 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Finding Hope and Faith in the Face of Death (Hardcover): Stephen A. Karol Finding Hope and Faith in the Face of Death (Hardcover)
Stephen A. Karol
R794 R687 Discovery Miles 6 870 Save R107 (13%) Ships in 18 - 22 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
R3,997 Discovery Miles 39 970 Ships in 10 - 15 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.

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
R2,927 Discovery Miles 29 270 Ships in 18 - 22 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.

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
R1,158 R971 Discovery Miles 9 710 Save R187 (16%) Ships in 18 - 22 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
R3,038 Discovery Miles 30 380 Ships in 10 - 15 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.

Books of Enoch - Complete Edition, the (Hardcover): Paul C Schnieders Books of Enoch - Complete Edition, the (Hardcover)
Paul C Schnieders
R656 Discovery Miles 6 560 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Five Megilloth (Soncino Books of the Bible) (Hardcover): A. Cohen The Five Megilloth (Soncino Books of the Bible) (Hardcover)
A. Cohen
R708 R637 Discovery Miles 6 370 Save R71 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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
R3,339 Discovery Miles 33 390 Ships in 10 - 15 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.

Sketches of Jewish Social Life in the Days of Christ (Hardcover): Alfred Edersheim Sketches of Jewish Social Life in the Days of Christ (Hardcover)
Alfred Edersheim
R890 Discovery Miles 8 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic (Hardcover): Alexandra Cuffel Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic (Hardcover)
Alexandra Cuffel
R3,967 Discovery Miles 39 670 Ships in 18 - 22 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.

When God Wanted to Destroy the Chosen People - Biblical Traditions and Theology on the Move (Hardcover): Gili Kugler When God Wanted to Destroy the Chosen People - Biblical Traditions and Theology on the Move (Hardcover)
Gili Kugler
R3,179 Discovery Miles 31 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

According to narratives in the Bible the threats of the people's end come from various sources, but the most significant threat comes, as learned from the Pentateuch, from God himself. What is the theological meaning of this tradition? In what circumstances did it evolve? How did it stand alongside other theological and socio-political concepts known to the ancient authors and their diverse audience? The book employs a diachronic method that explores the stages of the tradition's formation and development, revealing the authors' exegetical purposes and ploys, and tracing the historical realities of their time. The book proposes that the motif of the threat of destruction existed in various forms prior to the creation of the stories recorded in the final text of the Pentateuch. The inclusion of the motif within specific literary contexts attenuated the concept of destruction by presenting it as a phenomenon of specific moments in the past. Nevertheless, the threat was resurrected repeatedly by various authors, for use as a precedent or a justification for present affliction.

Being Jewish in 21st Century Central Europe (Hardcover): Haim Fireberg, Olaf Gloeckner, Marcela Menachem Zoufala Being Jewish in 21st Century Central Europe (Hardcover)
Haim Fireberg, Olaf Gloeckner, Marcela Menachem Zoufala
R4,190 Discovery Miles 41 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Jewish life in Europe has undergone dramatic changes and transformations within the 20th century and also the last two decades. The phenomenon of the dual position of the Jewish minority in relation to the majority, not entirely unusual for Jewish Diaspora communities, manifested itself most distinctly on the European continent. This unique Jewish experience of the ambiguous position of insider and outsider may provide valuable views on contemporary European reality and identity crisis. The book focuses inter alia on the main common denominators of contemporary Jewish life in Central Europe, such as an intense confrontation with the heritage of the Holocaust and unrelenting antisemitism on the one hand and on the other hand, huge appreciation of traditional Jewish learning and culture by a considerable part of non-Jewish Europeans. The volume includes contributions on Jewish life in central European countries like Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, and Germany.

...and Turn It Again - Theme and Sacred Variations (Hardcover): Simeon J Maslin ...and Turn It Again - Theme and Sacred Variations (Hardcover)
Simeon J Maslin
R858 Discovery Miles 8 580 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Shalom Shar'abi and the Kabbalists of Beit El (Hardcover, New): Pinchas Giller Shalom Shar'abi and the Kabbalists of Beit El (Hardcover, New)
Pinchas Giller
R2,693 Discovery Miles 26 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Pinchas Giller offers a wide-ranging overview of the most influential school of kabbalah in modernity, the Jerusalem kabbalists of the Beit El Yeshivah. The school is associated with the writings and personality of a charismatic Yemenite Rabbi, Shalom Shar'abi. Shar'abi's activity overwhelmed the Jerusalem Kabbalah of the eighteenth-century, and his acolytes are the most active mystics in contemporary Middle Eastern Jewry to this day. Today, this meditative tradition is rising in popularity in Jerusalem, New York, and Los Angeles, both among traditional Beit El kabbalists and memebers of the notorious Kabbalah Learning Centers. After providing the historical setting, Giller examines the characteristic mystical practices of the Beit El School. The dominant practice is that of ritual prayer with mystical "intentions", or kavvanot. The kavvanot themselves are the product of thousands of years of development, and incorporate many traditions and bodies of lore. Giller examines the archaeology of the kavvanot literature, the principle of the sacred names that make up the majority of kavvanot, the development of particular rituals, and the innovative mystical and devotional practices of the Beit El kabbalists to this day. The first book in the English language to address the character and spread of jewish mysticism through the Middle East in early modernity, it will be a guide post for further study of this vast topic.

The Self-Understanding of the Dead Sea Scrolls Community - An Eternal Planting, A House of Holiness (Hardcover): Paul Swarup The Self-Understanding of the Dead Sea Scrolls Community - An Eternal Planting, A House of Holiness (Hardcover)
Paul Swarup
R5,924 Discovery Miles 59 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a study of two metaphors, 'an eternal planting' and 'a house of holiness', which were used extensively by the DSS Community in expression of their self-understanding. These two metaphors embrace a wide range of biblical themes which they appropriated for themselves. The sectarian writings and non-sectarian writings used by the community have been examined in order to bring out the theology behind these two metaphors. Each passage is compared and contrasted primarily with the Hebrew Bible to see how the text has been reworked or nuanced to suit its new context.

It is concluded that these two metaphors express the deep yearning of the DSS Community for a complete restoration of Israel, for a return to Edenic conditions as before the Fall, and for a temple which was pure. These metaphors contribute to the community's self-understanding of themselves as the 'eternal planting', or True Israel, the faithful remnant, who practised justice and righteousness and awaited the eschaton. They beleived that they were indeed a 'kingdom of priests and a holy nation'. They understood themselves to be a proleptic temple in advance of the eschatological temple to be built by God. They were also the true priests, functioning in God's heavenly temple carrying out the priestly ministry of atonement, teaching, intercession, and blessing. These two metaphors appear to be quite distinct at first sight, but on closer examination they are seen to convey many complementary theological ideas.

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
R909 R788 Discovery Miles 7 880 Save R121 (13%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Biblical Interpretation in Judaism and Christianity (Hardcover): Isaac Kalimi, Peter J. Haas Biblical Interpretation in Judaism and Christianity (Hardcover)
Isaac Kalimi, Peter J. Haas
R5,283 Discovery Miles 52 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume comprises fifteen essays classified in three major sections. Some of these essays raise theoretical and methodological issues while others focus on specific topics. The time span ranges from late biblical period to the present. The volume reflects the current thought of some of the major scholars in the field in various shapes and contexts as well as from a variety of perspectives: inner-biblical, qumranic, New Testament, various rabbinic literature (targumic, midrashic, halachic, and Medieval kabalistic), and some modern interpretation. The essays reflect the contemporary thought of some of the foremost scholars in the field of biblical exegesis from a variety of standpoints, moving the biblical exegesis well beyond its conventional limits, and enriching the knowledge and deepening the understanding of the readers.

Jewish Liturgical Reasoning (Hardcover, New): Steven Kepnes Jewish Liturgical Reasoning (Hardcover, New)
Steven Kepnes
R1,588 Discovery Miles 15 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Liturgy, a complex interweaving of word, text, song, and behavior is a central fixture of religious life in the Jewish tradition. It is unique in that it is performed and not merely thought. Because liturgy is performed by a specific group at a specific time and place it is mutable. Thus, liturgical reasoning is always new and understandings of liturgical practices are always evolving. Liturgy is neither preexisting nor static; it is discovered and revealed in every liturgical performance.
Jewish Liturgical Reasoning is an attempt to articulate the internal patterns of philosophical, ethical, and theological reasoning that are at work in synagogue liturgies. This book discusses the relationship between internal Jewish liturgical reasoning and the variety of external philosophical and theological forms of reasoning that have been developed in modern and post liberal Jewish philosophy. Steven Kepnes argues that liturgical reasoning can reorient Jewish philosophy and provide it with new tools, new terms of discourse and analysis, and a new sensibility for the twenty-first century.
The formal philosophical study of Jewish liturgy began with Moses Mendelssohn and the modern Jewish philosophers. Thus the book focuses, in its first chapters, on the liturgical reasoning of Moses Mendelssohn, Hermann Cohen, and Franz Rosenzweig. However, it attempts to augment and further develop the liturgical reasoning of these figures with methods of study from Hermeneutics, Semiotic theory, post liberal theology, anthropology and performance theory. These newer theories are enlisted to help form a contemporary liturgical reasoning that can respond to such events as the Holocaust, the establishmentof the State of Israel, and interfaith dialogue between Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

Jewish FAQs (Hardcover): Rabbi Daniel Kohn, Daniel B. Kohn Jewish FAQs (Hardcover)
Rabbi Daniel Kohn, Daniel B. Kohn
R884 Discovery Miles 8 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wisdom Poured Out Like Water - Studies on Jewish and Christian Antiquity in Honor of Gabriele Boccaccini (Hardcover): J. Harold... Wisdom Poured Out Like Water - Studies on Jewish and Christian Antiquity in Honor of Gabriele Boccaccini (Hardcover)
J. Harold Ellens, Isaac W Oliver, Jason Von Ehrenkrook, James Waddell, Jason M. Zurawski
R4,719 Discovery Miles 47 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection presents innovative research by scholars from across the globe in celebration of Gabriele Boccaccini's sixtieth birthday and to honor his contribution to the study of early Judaism and Christianity. In harmony with Boccaccini's determination to promote the study of Second Temple Judaism in its own right, this volume includes studies on various issues raised in early Jewish apocalyptic literature (e.g., 1 Enoch, 2 Baruch, 4 Ezra), the Dead Sea Scrolls, and other early Jewish texts, from Tobit to Ben Sira to Philo and beyond. The volume also provides several investigations on early Christianity in intimate conversation with its Jewish sources, consistent with Boccaccini's efforts to transcend confessional and disciplinary divisions by situating the origins of Christianity firmly within Second Temple Judaism. Finally, the volume includes essays that look at Jewish-Christian relations in the centuries following the Second Temple period, a harvest of Boccaccini's labor to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Christianity in light of their shared yet contested heritage.

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