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The Sages Volume V: The Yeshivot of Babylonia and Israel (Hardcover): Binyamin Lau The Sages Volume V: The Yeshivot of Babylonia and Israel (Hardcover)
Binyamin Lau
R605 Discovery Miles 6 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Paperback): Timothy H. Lim, John J. Collins The Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Paperback)
Timothy H. Lim, John J. Collins
R1,505 Discovery Miles 15 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In 1946 the first of the Dead Sea Scroll discoveries was made near the site of Qumran, at the northern end of the Dead Sea. Despite the much publicized delays in the publication and editing of the Scrolls, practically all of them had been made public by the time of the fiftieth anniversary of the first discovery. That occasion was marked by a spate of major publications that attempted to sum up the state of scholarship at the end of the twentieth century, including The Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls (OUP 2000). These publications produced an authoritative synthesis to which the majority of scholars in the field subscribed, granted disagreements in detail.
A decade or so later, The Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls has a different objective and character. It seeks to probe the main disputed issues in the study of the Scrolls. Lively debate continues over the archaeology and history of the site, the nature and identity of the sect, and its relation to the broader world of Second Temple Judaism and to later Jewish and Christian tradition. It is the Handbook's intention here to reflect on diverse opinions and viewpoints, highlight the points of disagreement, and point to promising directions for future research.

O Sagrado Zohar - Lech Lecha - Volume 5 (Portuguese, Hardcover): Shimon Bar Iochai O Sagrado Zohar - Lech Lecha - Volume 5 (Portuguese, Hardcover)
Shimon Bar Iochai; Translated by Yair Alon
R1,733 Discovery Miles 17 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Law and Self-Knowledge in the Talmud (Hardcover): Ayelet Hoffmann Libson Law and Self-Knowledge in the Talmud (Hardcover)
Ayelet Hoffmann Libson
R2,703 Discovery Miles 27 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines the emergence of self-knowledge as a determining legal consideration among the rabbis of Late Antiquity, from the third to the seventh centuries CE. Based on close readings of rabbinic texts from Palestine and Babylonia, Ayelet Hoffmann Libson highlights a unique and surprising development in Talmudic jurisprudence, whereby legal decision-making incorporated personal and subjective information. She examines the central legal role accorded to individuals' knowledge of their bodies and mental states in areas of law as diverse as purity laws, family law and the laws of Sabbath. By focusing on subjectivity and self-reflection, the Babylonian rabbis transformed earlier legal practices in a way that cohered with the cultural concerns of other religious groups in Late Antiquity. They developed sophisticated ideas about the inner self and incorporated these notions into their distinctive discourse of law.

O Sagrado Zohar - Noach - Volume 4 (Portuguese, Hardcover): Shimon Bar Iochai O Sagrado Zohar - Noach - Volume 4 (Portuguese, Hardcover)
Shimon Bar Iochai; Translated by Yair Alon
R1,731 Discovery Miles 17 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
O Sagrado Zohar - Bereshit 2 - Volume 3 (Portuguese, Hardcover): Shimon Bar Iochai O Sagrado Zohar - Bereshit 2 - Volume 3 (Portuguese, Hardcover)
Shimon Bar Iochai; Translated by Yair Alon
R1,752 Discovery Miles 17 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
O Sagrado Zohar - Bereshit 1 - Volume 2 (Portuguese, Hardcover): Shimon Bar Iochai O Sagrado Zohar - Bereshit 1 - Volume 2 (Portuguese, Hardcover)
Shimon Bar Iochai; Translated by Yair Alon
R1,754 Discovery Miles 17 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Book of Enoch (Paperback): Enoch The Book of Enoch (Paperback)
Enoch
R407 Discovery Miles 4 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Tay V?c Ky (Vietnamese, Hardcover): Thich Nh? ?i?n, Nguy?n Minh Ti?n Tay Vực Ky (Vietnamese, Hardcover)
Thich Như Điển, Nguyễn Minh Tiến
R1,186 Discovery Miles 11 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
It Will Be Manifested According to Your Faith (Multiple languages, Hardcover): Abdelmounaim Ben Ammor It Will Be Manifested According to Your Faith (Multiple languages, Hardcover)
Abdelmounaim Ben Ammor
R907 Discovery Miles 9 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Seven Chapters of Prayer - as taught by Padma Sambhava of Urgyen, known in Tibetan as Le`u bDun Ma, arranged according to... The Seven Chapters of Prayer - as taught by Padma Sambhava of Urgyen, known in Tibetan as Le`u bDun Ma, arranged according to the system of Khordong Gompa by Chhimed Rigdzin Rinpoche (Hardcover)
James Low
R821 Discovery Miles 8 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
O Sagrado Zohar - Introducao ao Zohar - Volume 1 (Portuguese, Hardcover): Shimon Bar Iochai O Sagrado Zohar - Introducao ao Zohar - Volume 1 (Portuguese, Hardcover)
Shimon Bar Iochai; Translated by Yair Alon
R1,722 Discovery Miles 17 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Kinh Bi Hoa - (??i Bi Lien Hoa Kinh) (Vietnamese, Hardcover): Nguy?n Minh Ti?n Kinh Bi Hoa - (Đại Bi Lien Hoa Kinh) (Vietnamese, Hardcover)
Nguyễn Minh Tiến
R711 Discovery Miles 7 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Essence of the Bhagavad Gita - A Contemporary Guide to Yoga, Meditation, and Indian Philosophy (Paperback): Eknath Easwaran Essence of the Bhagavad Gita - A Contemporary Guide to Yoga, Meditation, and Indian Philosophy (Paperback)
Eknath Easwaran
R362 Discovery Miles 3 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Bhagavad Gita opens with a crisis - Prince Arjuna despairs on the battlefield, unsure if he should fight his kinsmen in a dreadful war. For Easwaran, the Gita's epic battle represents the war in our own hearts and Arjuna's anguish reflects the human condition: torn between opposing forces, confused about how to live. Sri Krishna's timeless guidance, Easwaran argues, can shed light on our dilemmas today. Placing the Gita's teachings in a modern context, Easwaran explores the nature of reality, the illusion of separateness, the search for identity, the meaning of yoga, and how to heal the unconscious. The key message of the Gita is how to resolve our conflicts and live in harmony with the deep unity of life, through the practice of meditation and spiritual disciplines. Sri Krishna doesn't tell Arjuna what to do. He points out the prince's choices, and then leaves it to Arjuna to decide. Easwaran shows us clearly how these teachings still apply - and how, like Arjuna, we must take courage and act wisely if we want our world to thrive.

The Rigveda: A Guide (Hardcover): Stephanie Jamison, Joel Brereton The Rigveda: A Guide (Hardcover)
Stephanie Jamison, Joel Brereton
R2,856 Discovery Miles 28 560 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Rigveda is a monumental text in both world religion and world literature, yet outside a small band of specialists it is little known. Composed in the latter half of the second millennium BCE, it stands as the foundational text of what would later be called Hinduism. The text consists of over a thousand hymns dedicated to various divinities, composed in sophisticated and often enigmatic verse. This concise guide from two of the Rigveda's leading English-language scholars introduces the text and breaks down its large range of topics-from meditations on cosmic enigmas to penetrating reflections on the ability of mortals to make contact with and affect the divine and cosmic realms through sacrifice and praise-for a wider audience.

Huldah - The Prophet Who Wrote Hebrew Scripture (Paperback): Preston Kavanagh Huldah - The Prophet Who Wrote Hebrew Scripture (Paperback)
Preston Kavanagh
R670 Discovery Miles 6 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book reveals- for the first time ever - the extraordinary impact of Huldah the prophet on our Bible. She was both a leader of exilic Jews and a principal author of Hebrew Scripture. She penned the Shema: the ardent, prayerful praise that millions of worshipers repeat twice daily. Moreover, Jesus quoted as his own last words the ones that Huldah had written centuries before - "Into your hand I commit my spirit". Huldah was an extraordinary writer - arguably she ranks among the best in Hebrew Scripture. As such, she added to God's Word a feminine aspect that has inspired numberless believers - men and women alike. This book's new techniques reveal that though subjected to extreme verbal abuse, Huldah surmounted her era's high barriers to women. As elder, queen mother, and war leader during the sixth century BCE, she helped shape Israel's history. And what, then, can this book mean to scholars - both women and men? Feminists need a rallying point and a heroine, and Huldah makes a superb one. In years ahead, experts might well place Huldah alongside the very greatest women of antiquity; indeed, they may even conclude that she is among the most influential people in human history.

Analysis of Concepts and States in Talmudic Reasoning (Hebrew, Hardcover, New): Michael Abraham, Israel Belfer, Dov Gabbay Analysis of Concepts and States in Talmudic Reasoning (Hebrew, Hardcover, New)
Michael Abraham, Israel Belfer, Dov Gabbay
R820 Discovery Miles 8 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this book we deal with combinations of concepts defining individuals in the Talmud. Consider for example Yom Kippur and Shabbat. Each concept has its own body of laws. Reality forces us to combine them when they occur on the same day. This is a case of "Identity Merging." As the combined body of laws may be inconsistent, we need a belief revision mechanism to reconcile the conflicting norms. The Talmud offers three options: 1 Take the union of the sets of the rules side by side 2. Resolve the conflicts using further meta-level Talmudic principles (which are new and of value to present day Artificial Intelligence) 3. Regard the new combined concept as a new entity with its own Halachic norms and create new norms for it out of the existing ones. This book offers a clear and precise logical model showing how the Talmud deals with these options.

The Dhammapada (Paperback, Second Edition): Eknath Easwaran The Dhammapada (Paperback, Second Edition)
Eknath Easwaran
R304 Discovery Miles 3 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Dhammapada means "the path of dharma," the path of truth, harmony, and righteousness that anyone can follow to reach the highest good. Easwaran's translation of this classic Buddhist text is the best-selling edition in its field, praised by Huston Smith as a "sublime rendering." The introduction gives an overview of the Buddha's teachings that is penetrating and clear - accessible for readers new to Buddhism, but also with fresh insights and practical applications for readers familiar with this text. Chapter introductions place individual verses into the context of the broader Buddhist canon. Easwaran is a master storyteller, and his opening essay includes many stories that make moving, memorable reading, bringing young Siddhartha and his heroic spiritual quest vividly to life. But Easwaran's main qualification for interpreting the Dhammapada, he said, was that he knew from his own experience that these verses could transform our lives. This faithful rendition brings us closer to the compassionate heart of the Buddha.

Narrative and Document in the Rabbinic Canon - The Two Talmuds (Paperback): Jacob Neusner Narrative and Document in the Rabbinic Canon - The Two Talmuds (Paperback)
Jacob Neusner
R1,459 Discovery Miles 14 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The author states in his preface: For a thousand years, from its earliest documents of the second century to the High Middle Ages, Rabbinic Judaism preferred to compose and collect anecdotes, not to construct of them sustained and connected biographies. This is a study of the inclusion of biographical narratives about sages in some of the components of the unfolding canon of Rabbinic Judaism in the formative age, the documents of the first six centuries C.E., exclusive of the two Talmuds. A sage here is defined as a man who embodies the Rabbinic system. A sage-story, then, is an anecdote about the life and deeds of a Rabbinic sage. A biographical narrative in general is the record of things done on a concrete and specific past-tense occasion by named individuals. The stories are not told as part of a sustained biographical account of those individuals' lives, birth to death. I am able in this way to correlate the unfolding of the authorized biography in the counterpart-Christian one. The documentary hypothesis yields the correlation between the advent of the Christian authorized biography and the advent of the sage-story in the later documents of the Rabbinic canon.

Three Testaments - Torah, Gospel, and Quran (Paperback): Brian Arthur Brown Three Testaments - Torah, Gospel, and Quran (Paperback)
Brian Arthur Brown; Foreword by Amir Hussain; Contributions by Laleh Bakhtiar, Marc Zvi Brettler, David Bruce, …
R1,240 Discovery Miles 12 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From disagreement over an Islamic Center in New York to clashes between Christians and Muslims in Egypt, tension between the three Abrahamic faiths often runs high. Yet for all their differences, these three traditions Judaism, Islam, and Christianity share much in common. Three Testaments brings together for the first time the text of the Torah, the New Testament, and the Quran, so that readers can explore for themselves the connections, as well as the points of departure, between the three faiths. Notable religion scholars provide accessible introductions to each tradition, and commentary from editor Brian Arthur Brown explores how the three faiths may draw similarities from the ancient Zoroastrian tradition. This powerful book provides a much-needed interfaith perspective on key sacred texts.

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Heinrich W. Guggenheimer
R1,011 R894 Discovery Miles 8 940 Save R117 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume, the second of a five-volume edition of the third order of the Jerusalem Talmud, deals in part I (Sotah) with the ordeal of the wife suspected of adultery (Num 5) and the role of Hebrew in the Jewish ritual. Part II (Nedarim) is concerned with Korban and similar expressions, vows and their consequences, and vows of women (Num 30).

Translating Totality in Parts - Chengguan's Commentaries and Subcommentaries to the Avatamska Sutra (Hardcover): Guo Cheen Translating Totality in Parts - Chengguan's Commentaries and Subcommentaries to the Avatamska Sutra (Hardcover)
Guo Cheen
R1,878 Discovery Miles 18 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Translating Totality in Parts offers an annotated translation of two of preeminent Chinese Tang dynasty monk Chengguan's most revered masterpieces. With this book, Chengguan's Commentaries to the Avatamsaka Sutra and The Meanings Proclaimed in the Subcommentaries Accompanying the Commentaries to the Avatamsaka Sutra are finally brought to contemporary Western audiences. Translating Totality in Parts allows Western readers to experience Chengguan's important contributions to the religious and philosophical theory of the Huayan and Buddhism in China.

Fuzzy Logic and Quantum States in Talmudic Reasoning (Hebrew, Hardcover): Michael Abraham, Israel Belfer, Gabbay Dov Fuzzy Logic and Quantum States in Talmudic Reasoning (Hebrew, Hardcover)
Michael Abraham, Israel Belfer, Gabbay Dov
R841 Discovery Miles 8 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Rationalitat in Der Islamischen Theologie - Band II: Die Moderne (German, Hardcover): Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth, Reza Hajatpour,... Rationalitat in Der Islamischen Theologie - Band II: Die Moderne (German, Hardcover)
Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth, Reza Hajatpour, Mohammed Abdelrahem
R3,704 Discovery Miles 37 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Tractate Berakhot - Edition, Translation, and Commentary (Paperback): Heinrich W. Guggenheimer Tractate Berakhot - Edition, Translation, and Commentary (Paperback)
Heinrich W. Guggenheimer
R991 R874 Discovery Miles 8 740 Save R117 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

After World War II, Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921-2007) published works in English and German by eminent Israeli scholars, in this way introducing them to a wider audience in Europe and North America. The series he founded for that purpose, Studia Judaica, continues to offer a platform for scholarly studies and editions that cover all eras in the history of the Jewish religion.

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