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The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Biblical Studies (Hardcover): Frank Moore Cross The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Biblical Studies (Hardcover)
Frank Moore Cross
R1,181 Discovery Miles 11 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ness Hatorah - TORAH - Bible Learning With Maximum Impact (Hardcover): Rabbi Yoram Dahan Ness Hatorah - TORAH - Bible Learning With Maximum Impact (Hardcover)
Rabbi Yoram Dahan
R1,780 Discovery Miles 17 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tales from My Father's Home Kupishok, Lithuania (Hardcover): Shlomo Kodesh Tales from My Father's Home Kupishok, Lithuania (Hardcover)
Shlomo Kodesh; Cover design or artwork by Rachel Kolokoff Hopper; Index compiled by Jonathan Wind
R1,121 Discovery Miles 11 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Messenger of the Lord in Early Jewish Interpretations of Genesis (Hardcover): Camilla Helena von Heijne The Messenger of the Lord in Early Jewish Interpretations of Genesis (Hardcover)
Camilla Helena von Heijne
R6,469 Discovery Miles 64 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The focus of this book is on early Jewish interpretations of the ambiguous relationship between God and 'the angel of the Lord/God' in texts like Genesis 16, 22 and 31. Genesis 32 is included since it exhibits the same ambiguity and constitutes an inseparable part of the Jacob saga. The study is set in the wider context of the development of angelology and concepts of God in various forms of early Judaism. When identifying patterns of interpretation in Jewish texts, their chronological setting is less important than the nature of the biblical source texts. For example, a common pattern is the avoidance of anthropomorphism. In Genesis 'the angel of the Lord' generally seems to be a kind of impersonal extension of God, while later Jewish writings are characterized by a more individualized angelology, but the ambivalence between God and his angel remains in many interpretations. In Philo's works and Wisdom of Solomon, the 'Logos' and 'Lady Wisdom' respectively have assumed the role of the biblical 'angel of the Lord'. Although the angelology of Second Temple Judaism had developed in the direction of seeing angels as distinct personalities, Judaism still had room for the idea of divine hypostases.

The Synagogue in America - A Short History (Hardcover, New): Marc Lee Raphael The Synagogue in America - A Short History (Hardcover, New)
Marc Lee Raphael
R1,117 Discovery Miles 11 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Read the Jewish Idea Daily's review here. In 1789, when George Washington was elected the first president of the United States, laymen from all six Jewish congregations in the new nation sent him congratulatory letters. He replied to all six. Thus, after more than a century of Jewish life in colonial America the small communities of Jews present at the birth of the nation proudly announced their religious institutions to the country and were recognized by its new leader. By this time, the synagogue had become the most significant institution of American Jewish life, a dominance that was not challenged until the twentieth century, when other institutions such as Jewish community centers or Jewish philanthropic organizations claimed to be the hearts of their Jewish communities. Concise yet comprehensive, The Synagogue in America is the first history of this all-important structure, illuminating its changing role within the American Jewish community over the course of three centuries. From Atlanta and Des Moines to Los Angeles and New Orleans, Marc Lee Raphael moves beyond the New York metropolitan area to examine Orthodox, Reform, Conservative, and Reconstuctionist synagogue life everywhere. Using the records of approximately 125 Jewish congregations, he traces the emergence of the synagogue in the United States from its first instances in the colonial period, when each of the half dozen initial Jewish communities had just one synagogue each, to its proliferation as the nation and the American Jewish community grew and diversified. Encompassing architecture, forms of worship, rabbinic life, fundraising, creative liturgies, and feminism, The Synagogue in America is the go-to history for understanding the synagogue's significance in American Jewish life.

The Fair Dinkum Jew - The Survival of Israel and the Abrahamic Covenant (Hardcover): Allan Russell Juriansz The Fair Dinkum Jew - The Survival of Israel and the Abrahamic Covenant (Hardcover)
Allan Russell Juriansz
R562 Discovery Miles 5 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The history of Israel goes back 4,000 years, and conflict has dogged much of its past. But today's headlines continue to highlight the Israeli-Palestinian struggle and Israel's quest for peace. Even so, another struggle is quietly rampant within world Jewry: the fight to secure Israel's future.

Offering a unique perspective on this issue, "The Fair Dinkum Jew" serves as an informative primer to show how the Abrahamic Covenant is vital to Israel's survival. Author Allan Russell Juriansz discusses the three great pillars of this Covenant-Land, Torah, and Messiah-and shows how Israel's only hope for security lies within these terms.

Juriansz breaks down years of Jewish history to prove the relevance of Judaism to Jewish existence and future in terms of the Abrahamic Covenant. He then discusses diff erent aspects of the Arab infi ltration and occupation of Palestine and examines the current confl ict between Jews and Arab Palestinians in terms of the post-1967 borders. In addition, he off ers potential solutions for peace that could possibly lead to stability within the Middle East.

"The Fair Dinkum Jew" issues a stirring call for Israel's need to believe in and defend its political, national, and religious integrity.

Sephardic Jewry and Mizrahi Jews - Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXII (Hardcover): Peter Y. Medding Sephardic Jewry and Mizrahi Jews - Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXII (Hardcover)
Peter Y. Medding
R2,140 Discovery Miles 21 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Volume XXII of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry explores the major and rapid changes experienced by a population known variously as "Sephardim," "Oriental" Jews and "Mizrahim" over the last fifty years. Although Sephardim are popularly believed to have originated in Spain or Portugal, the majority of Mizrahi Jews today are actually the descendants of Jews from Muslim and Arab countries in the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. They constitute a growing proportion of Israeli Jewry and continue to revitalize Jewish culture in places as varied as France, Latin America, and the United States.
Sephardic Jewry and Mizrahi Jews offers a collection of new scholarship on the issues of self-definition and identity facing Sephardic Jewry. The essays draw on a variety of disciplines--demography, history, political science, sociology, religious and gender studies, anthropology, and literature. Contributors explore the issues surrounding the emergence and increasingly wide usage of "Mizrahi" in place of "Sephardic," as well as the invigoration of Sephardic Judaism. They look at the evolution of Sephardic politics in Israel through the dramatic rise and continuing influence of the Shas political party and its spiritual leader, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. Other contributors examine the variegated nature of Mizrahi immigration to Israel, fictional portraits of female Mizrahi immigrants to Israel in the 1940s and 1950s, contemporary Mizrahi Israel feminism, modern Arab historiography's portrayal of Jews of Muslim lands, and the changing Sephardic halakhic tradition.

Jewish Detroit (Hardcover): Irwin Cohen Jewish Detroit (Hardcover)
Irwin Cohen
R674 Discovery Miles 6 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Book of Jewish Joys (No OYs) - From sizzling latkes to slurping matzah ball soup: 72 small joyful things. (Hardcover):... The Book of Jewish Joys (No OYs) - From sizzling latkes to slurping matzah ball soup: 72 small joyful things. (Hardcover)
Amanda Minuk
R592 Discovery Miles 5 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Seder Eliyahu - A Narratological Reading (Hardcover): Constanza Cordoni Seder Eliyahu - A Narratological Reading (Hardcover)
Constanza Cordoni
R2,940 Discovery Miles 29 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The book is concerned with a so called ethical midrash, Seder Eliyahu (also known as Tanna debe Eliyahu), a post-talmudic work probably composed in the ninth century. It provides a survey of the research on this late midrash followed by five studies of different aspects related to what is designated as the work's narratology. These include a discussion of the problem of the apparent pseudo-epigraphy of the work and of the multiple voices of the text; a description of the various narrative types which the work, itself as a whole of non-narrative character, makes use of; a detailed treatment of Seder Eliyahu's parables and most characteristic first person narratives (an extremely unusual form of narrative discourse in rabbinic literature); as well as a final chapter dedicated to selected women stories in this late midrash. As it emerges from the survey in chapter 1 such a narratologically informed study of Seder Eliyahu represents a new approach in the research on a work that is clearly the product of a time of transition in Jewish literature.

Word and Image in Medieval Kabbalah (Hardcover, New): M. Segol Word and Image in Medieval Kabbalah (Hardcover, New)
M. Segol
R3,886 Discovery Miles 38 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Sefer Yetsirah (the Book of Creation ) is a core text of the early kabbalah, yet scholars have struggled to establish even the most basic facts about the work. This project attempts to discover the ways in which diagrams accompanying the text and its commentaries show trends in the development of the kabbalistic tradition as a whole.

Did Moses Speak Attic? - Jewish Historiography and Scripture in the Hellenistic Period (Hardcover): Lester L Grabbe Did Moses Speak Attic? - Jewish Historiography and Scripture in the Hellenistic Period (Hardcover)
Lester L Grabbe
R6,653 Discovery Miles 66 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Is the Bible a Hellenistic book? The essays in this volume respond to that challenging question, formulated by Niels Peter Lemche, and offer everything from qualified agreement to vociferous opposition. In so doing, they debate and illuminate the many features of Jewish writing in the Second Temple period, including not only the scriptures themselves and their own history, but the non-canonized literature of the late Second-Temple period. As with all the volumes in this pioneering series, the editor, Lester Grabbe, introduces and reflects upon the discussion and its implications for one of the most controversial topics in current biblical studies.

Jewish Ethics as Dialogue - Using Spiritual Language to Re-Imagine a Better World (Hardcover): M. Pava Jewish Ethics as Dialogue - Using Spiritual Language to Re-Imagine a Better World (Hardcover)
M. Pava
R1,509 Discovery Miles 15 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Blending the deep traditions of Jewish humanism with modern philosophical expressions, this book argues that Jewish values are not fixed propositions embedded in written form that can be easily handed off from one generation to the next.

Queen Sheba Talking (Hardcover): Hisham El-Amili Queen Sheba Talking (Hardcover)
Hisham El-Amili
R848 Discovery Miles 8 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

'Queen Sheba Talking': Finally Queen Sheba is found It is a fascinating investigation leading to the where about Queen Sheba is hiding? 3000 years of colourful history is revealed by Hisham Amili. Who was Queen Sheba and did King Solomon really exist? Indeed was Jerusalem built when Queen Sheba visited Solomon or did she visit him in Mecca instead? 'Queen Sheba talking' is revealing many secrets of the Near East Civilisations, Camels, Jews and Ethiopians? The book entertains the possibility that Queen Sheba and king Solomon were neither neighbours nor prominent, merely virtual leaders. On the other hand 'Queen Sheba Talking' provides great evidence to support their true existence but 150 years after their traditional biblical dates. Unlike Amili's previous books, there are many charts and tables in his new 'Queen Sheba talking' simplifying the tale and serving the feeds that led to her throne. It is a fascinating read with great imagination based on actual records of history and antiquities . Contrary to Napoleon, Alexandra, Cleopatra or even Hitler, the story of Queen Sheba has greater impact and more secrets to explore. It is a powerful true story of love, religion, civilisation, trade, gender and ultimate control on people and their aspiration.

Modern Jewish Women Writers in America (Hardcover, 2007 ed.): E Avery Modern Jewish Women Writers in America (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
E Avery
R1,529 Discovery Miles 15 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

After forty years of feminism, views of the traditional Jewish family, religion, and gender roles have changed. In the process a new literature has been created, new paradigms born, and many Jewish women writers have been reevaluated, reclaimed, and renamed, with their Jewish heritage often overlooked or misinterpreted." Modern Jewish Women Writers in America "includes groundbreaking essays and interviews with scholars and authors who reveal that despite pressures of assimilation, personal goals, and in some cases, anti-Semitism, they have never been able to divorce their lives or literature from being Jewish.

Ignaz Goldziher as a Jewish Orientalist - Traditional Learning, Critical Scholarship, and Personal Piety (Hardcover): Tamás... Ignaz Goldziher as a Jewish Orientalist - Traditional Learning, Critical Scholarship, and Personal Piety (Hardcover)
Tamás Turán
R3,669 Discovery Miles 36 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Ignaz Goldziher (1850-1921), one of the founders of modern Arabic and Islamic studies, was a Hungarian Jew and a Professor at the University of Budapest. A wunderkind who mastered Hebrew, Latin, Greek, Turkish, Persian, and Arabic as a teenager, his works reached international acclaim long before he was appointed professor in his native country. From his initial vision of Jewish religious modernization via the science of religion, his academic interests gradually shifted to Arabic-Islamic themes. Yet his early Jewish program remained encoded in his new scholarly pursuits. Islamic studies was a refuge for him from his grievances with the Jewish establishment; from local academic and social irritations he found comfort in his international network of colleagues. This intellectual and academic transformation is explored in the book in three dimensions – scholarship on religion, in religion (Judaism and Islam), and as religion – utilizing his diaries, correspondences and his little-known early Hungarian works.

Sometimes You Are What You Wear! - The Traditional Jewish View of Modesty (Hardcover): Eliyahu Safran Sometimes You Are What You Wear! - The Traditional Jewish View of Modesty (Hardcover)
Eliyahu Safran
R830 Discovery Miles 8 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Rabbi Safran's compelling book about the need to incorporate the traditional view of modesty if we are to save our children from the superficiality, the decadence and the damaging influences of our modern, "progressive" society, opens with a simple question, "What can an Orthodox rabbi tell me about my children or my life?"
In his book, Rabbi Dr. Safran goes on to make clear that an Orthodox rabbi has quite a bit to say about the modern world, the power of spirituality, and the particularly powerful religious worldview of Judaism. Rabbi Safran presents the traditional view of modesty in the context of Judaism's unique way of looking at the world. For Judaism, seeks an appropriate balance between the physical and the spiritual, denying neither and recognizing that the beauty of God's creative wisdom inhabits both.
Rabbi Safran presents the traditional Jewish view of modesty, tzniut, by first questioning the "benefit" that the modern world has bestowed upon us. Indeed, he takes the strong position that our modern world has sought to turn our children into "commodities" that serve to benefit a corporate bottom line, but not the best interests of our children.
The superficiality of the modern world, with its emphasis on body image, has done a profound disservice to us and to our children. There are ever more young people turning to illicit sexual encounters, alcohol and drug abuse, and who suffer from psychological struggles like eating disorders. In this context, Rabbi Safran does not present tzniut as a "quick fix." Far from it. He establishes the textual, spiritual and historical context for modesty and demonstrates with candor

Esther in Ancient Jewish Thought (Hardcover, New): Aaron Koller Esther in Ancient Jewish Thought (Hardcover, New)
Aaron Koller
R2,824 Discovery Miles 28 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The book of Esther was a conscious reaction to much of the conventional wisdom of its day, challenging beliefs regarding the Jerusalem Temple, the land of Israel, Jewish law, and even God. Aaron Koller identifies Esther as primarily a political work, and shows that early reactions ranged from ignoring the book to 'rewriting' Esther in order to correct its perceived flaws. But few biblical books have been read in such different ways, and the vast quantity of Esther-interpretation in rabbinic literature indicates a conscious effort by the Rabbis to present Esther as a story of faith and traditionalism, and bring it into the fold of the grand biblical narrative. Koller situates Esther, and its many interpretations, within the intellectual and political contexts of Ancient Judaism, and discusses its controversial themes. His innovative line of enquiry will be of great interest to students and scholars of Bible and Jewish studies.

Maimonides - A Collection of Critical Essays (Hardcover): J.A. Buijs Maimonides - A Collection of Critical Essays (Hardcover)
J.A. Buijs
R2,941 Discovery Miles 29 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Reflections on Religious Individuality - Greco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian Texts and Practices (Hardcover): Joerg Rupke,... Reflections on Religious Individuality - Greco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian Texts and Practices (Hardcover)
Joerg Rupke, Wolfgang Spickermann
R4,977 Discovery Miles 49 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume will concentrate its search for religious individuality on texts and practices related to texts from Classical Greece to Late Antiquity. Texts offer opportunities to express one's own religious experience and shape one's own religious personality within the boundaries of what is acceptable. Inscriptions in public or at least easily accessible spaces might substantially differ in there range of expressions and topics from letters within a sectarian religious group (which, at the same time, might put enormous pressure on conformity among its members, regarded as deviant by a majority of contemporaries). Furthermore, texts might offer and advocate new practices in reading, meditating, remembering or repeating these very texts. Such practices might contribute to the development of religious individuality, experienced or expressed in factual isolation, responsibility, competition, and finally in philosophical or theological reflections about "personhood" or "self". The volume develops its topic in three sections, addressing personhood, representative and charismatic individuality, the interaction of individual and groups and practices of reading and writing. It explores Jewish, Christian, Greek and Latin texts.

Second Temple Songs of Zion - A Literary and Generic Analysis of the Apostrophe to Zion (11QPsa XXII 1-15); Tobit 13:9-18 and 1... Second Temple Songs of Zion - A Literary and Generic Analysis of the Apostrophe to Zion (11QPsa XXII 1-15); Tobit 13:9-18 and 1 Baruch 4:30-5:9 (Hardcover, Digital original)
Ruth Henderson
R4,231 Discovery Miles 42 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Although in Second Temple literature we find a variety of songs concerned with the future of Jerusalem, little attempt has been made to analyse these comparatively as a generic group. In this study, three songs have been selected on the basis of their similarity in style, ideas and their apparent original composition in Hebrew. The texts have been subjected to a literary analysis both individually and then comparatively.

Canonicity, Setting, Wisdom in the Deuterocanonicals - Papers of the Jubilee Meeting of the International Conference on the... Canonicity, Setting, Wisdom in the Deuterocanonicals - Papers of the Jubilee Meeting of the International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books (Hardcover)
Geza G. Xeravits, Jozsef Zsengeller, Xaver Szabo
R4,224 Discovery Miles 42 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The volume publishes papers read at the tenth International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, Budapest, 2013. The authors explore various aspects of this literature, with pre-eminent emphasis on their relation to diverse early Jewish texts and traditions; their reactions on Hellenism; and the way they treated as a canonical collection within their history of interpretation.

Religious Harmony - Problems, Practice, and Education. Proceedings of the Regional Conference of the International Association... Religious Harmony - Problems, Practice, and Education. Proceedings of the Regional Conference of the International Association for the History of Religions. Yogyakarta and Semarang, Indonesia. September 27th - October 3rd, 2004. (Hardcover, Reprint 2012)
Michael Pye, Edith Franke, Alef Theria Wasim, Abdurrahman Mas'ud
R4,728 R4,235 Discovery Miles 42 350 Save R493 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

It is crucial today to understand how religions can exist harmoniously in a shared environment, whether local or global. A reasoned approach to this question was sought by participants at a stimulating conference of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR) in a predominantly Muslim country, Indonesia. Themes treated include the relation between theoretical approaches and religious viewpoints, practical problems and conflict resolution at the local level, and religious education with special reference to the role of Muslim schools (pesantren) in Indonesia.

German-Jewish Thought Between Religion and Politics - Festschrift in Honor of Paul Mendes-Flohr on the Occasion of His... German-Jewish Thought Between Religion and Politics - Festschrift in Honor of Paul Mendes-Flohr on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday (Hardcover)
Christian Wiese, Martina Urban
R6,096 Discovery Miles 60 960 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Since the Enlightenment period, German-Jewish intellectuals have been prominent voices in the multi-facetted discourse on the reinterpretation of Jewish tradition in light of modern thinking. Paul Mendes-Flohr, one of the towering figures of current scholarship on German-Jewish intellectual history, has made invaluable contributions to a better understanding of the religious, cultural and political dimensions of these thinkers' encounter with German and European culture, including the tension between their loyalty to Judaism and the often competing claims of non-Jewish society and culture. This volume assembles essays by internationally acknowledged scholars in the field who intend to honor Mendes-Flohr's work by portraying the abundance of religious, philosophical, aesthetical and political aspects dominating the thinking of those famous thinkers populating German Jewry's rich and complex intellectual world in the modern period. It also provides a fresh theoretical outlook on trends in Jewish intellectual history, raising new questions concerning the dialectics of assimilation. In addition to that, the volume sheds light on thinkers and debates that hitherto have not been accorded full scholarly attention.

John and Anti-Judaism (Hardcover): Jonathan Numada John and Anti-Judaism (Hardcover)
Jonathan Numada
R1,298 Discovery Miles 12 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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