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This book is the first Haggadah that brings together the teachings
of three of the most influential and brilliant Rabbinic
personalities of the 20th century: Rabbi Kook, Rabbi Shlomo
Carlebach, and Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik. The Night That Unites
also offers a special section of contemporary readings and stories
related to the Land of Israel and the Holocaust. Suggested
questions are offered as a way of encouraging and guiding
discussion at the Seder that will enhance the Passover night
experience, and illustrations depicting all 15 steps of the Seder
are featured throughout.
In this historical and theological study, John G. Gager undermines
the myth of the Apostle Paul's rejection of Judaism, conversion to
Christianity, and founding of Christian anti-Judaism. He finds that
the rise of Christianity occurred well after Paul's death and
attributes the distortion of the Apostle's views to early and later
Christians. Though Christian clerical elites ascribed a
rejection-replacement theology to Paul's legend, Gager shows that
the Apostle was considered a loyal Jew by many of his
Jesus-believing contemporaries and that later Jewish and Muslim
thinkers held the same view. He holds that one of the earliest
misinterpretations of Paul was to name him the founder of
Christianity, and in recent times numerous Jewish and Christian
readers of Paul have moved beyond this understanding. Gager also
finds that Judaism did not fade away after Paul's death but
continued to appeal to both Christians and pagans for centuries.
Jewish synagogues remained important religious and social
institutions throughout the Mediterranean world. Making use of all
possible literary and archaeological sources, including Muslim
texts, Gager helps recover the long pre-history of a Jewish Paul,
obscured by recent, negative portrayals of the Apostle, and
recognizes the enduring bond between Jews and Christians that has
influenced all aspects of Christianity.
The recovery of 800 documents in the eleven caves on the northwest
shores of the Dead Sea is one of the most sensational archeological
discoveries in the Holy Land to date. These three volumes, the very
best of critical scholarship, demonstrate in detail how the scrolls
have revolutionized our knowledge of the text of the Bible, the
character of Second Temple Judaism, and the Jewish beginnings of
Christianity.
An intimate and moving portrait of daily life in New York's oldest
institution of traditional rabbinic learning New York City's Lower
East Side has witnessed a severe decline in its Jewish population
in recent decades, yet every morning in the big room of the city's
oldest yeshiva, students still gather to study the Talmud beneath
the great arched windows facing out onto East Broadway. Yeshiva
Days is Jonathan Boyarin's uniquely personal account of the year he
spent as both student and observer at Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem,
and a poignant chronicle of a side of Jewish life that outsiders
rarely see. Boyarin explores the yeshiva's relationship with the
neighborhood, the city, and Jewish and American culture more
broadly, and brings vividly to life its routines, rituals, and
rhythms. He describes the compelling and often colorful
personalities he encounters each day, and introduces readers to the
Rosh Yeshiva, or Rebbi, the moral and intellectual head of the
yeshiva. Boyarin reflects on the tantalizing meanings of "study for
its own sake" in the intellectually vibrant world of traditional
rabbinic learning, and records his fellow students' responses to
his negotiation of the daily complexities of yeshiva life while he
also conducts anthropological fieldwork. A richly mature work by a
writer of uncommon insight, wit, and honesty, Yeshiva Days is the
story of a place on the Lower East Side with its own distinctive
heritage and character, a meditation on the enduring power of
Jewish tradition and learning, and a record of a different way of
engaging with time and otherness.
Normon Solomon's succinct book is an ideal introduction to Judaism
as a religion and way of life. Demonstrating the diverse nature and
ethnic origin of those with the Jewish faith, Solomon explores how
the Jewish religion has developed in the 2,000 years since the days
of the Bible. This Very Short Introduction starts by outlining the
basics of practical Judaism - its festivals, prayers, customs, and
various sects - and goes on to consider how Judaism has responded
to, and dealt with, a number of key issues and debates, including
the impact of the Holocaust and the establishment of the State of
Israel. In this new edition, Solomon considers issues of
contemporary Judaism in the twenty first century. ABOUT THE SERIES:
The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press
contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These
pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new
subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis,
perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and
challenging topics highly readable.
Opening Israel's Scriptures is a collection of thirty-six essays on
the Hebrew Bible, from Genesis to Chronicles, which gives powerful
insight into the complexity and inexhaustibility of the Hebrew
Scriptures as a theological resource. Based on more than two
decades of lectures on Old Testament interpretation, Ellen F. Davis
offers a selective yet comprehensive guide to the core concepts,
literary patterns, storylines, and theological perspectives that
are central to Israel's Scriptures. Underlying the whole study is
the primary assumption that each book of the canon has literary and
theological coherence, though not uniformity. In both her close
readings of individual texts and in her broad demonstrations of the
coherence of whole books, Davis models the best practices of
contemporary exegesis, integrating the insights of contemporary
scholars with those of classical theological resources in Jewish
and Christian traditions. Throughout, she keeps an eye to the
experiences and concerns of contemporary readers, showing through
multiple examples that the critical interpretation of texts is
provisional, open-ended work-a collaboration across generations and
cultures. Ultimately what she offers is an invitation into the more
spacious world that the Bible discloses, which challenges ordinary
conceptions of how things "really" are.
Solomon's image as a wise king and the founder of Jerusalem Temple
has become a fixture of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic literature.
Yet, there are essential differences between the portraits of
Solomon that are presented in the Hebrew Bible. In this volume,
Isaac Kalimi explores these differences, which reflect divergent
historical contexts, theological and didactic concepts, stylistic
and literary techniques, and compositional methods among the
biblical historians. He highlights the uniqueness of each portrayal
of Solomon - his character, birth, early life, ascension, and
temple-building - through a close comparison of the early and late
biblical historiographies. Whereas the authors of Samuel-Kings stay
closely to their sources and offer an apology for Solomon's
kingship, including its more questionable aspects, the Chronicler
freely rewrites his sources in order to present the life of Solomon
as he wished it to be. The volume will serve scholars and students
seeking to understand biblical texts within their ancient Near
Eastern contexts.
Discover the Jewish Jesus
What relevance does it have for us that Jesus is Jewish and what
difference should it make to our faith?
In The Jewish Jesus, David Hoffbrand explores the answers to these and
related questions in a way that is accessible to everyone.
As you see how Jesus lived, thought and taught as a Jewish man, you
will come to know Him like never before, and find that His teachings
come alive in their original context. This book will also help you:
- Appreciate the Jewish context of the whole Bible, reconnecting
the Old and New Testaments.
- Rediscover God's heart and purposes for the Jewish people and
Israel.
- Engage with God's blueprint for the church as a unified but
diverse community of believers.
- Learn principles that will help you restore the Jewish lens in a
way that enriches your faith.
It's time to discover the Jewish Jesus!
The love of books in the Jewish tradition extends back over many
centuries, and the ways of interpreting those books are as myriad
as the traditions themselves. Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink
offers the first full survey of Jewish illuminated manuscripts,
ranging from their origins in the Middle Ages to the present day.
Featuring some of the most beautiful examples of Jewish art of all
time--including hand-illustrated versions of the Bible, the
Haggadah, the prayer book, marriage documents, and other beloved
Jewish texts--the book introduces readers to the history of these
manuscripts and their interpretation. Edited by Marc Michael
Epstein with contributions from leading experts, this sumptuous
volume features a lively and informative text, showing how Jewish
aesthetic tastes and iconography overlapped with and diverged from
those of Christianity, Islam, and other traditions. Featured
manuscripts were commissioned by Jews and produced by Jews and
non-Jews over many centuries, and represent Eastern and Western
perspectives and the views of both pietistic and liberal
communities across the Diaspora, including Europe, Israel, the
Middle East, and Africa. Magnificently illustrated with pages from
hundreds of manuscripts, many previously unpublished or rarely
seen, Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink offers surprising new
perspectives on Jewish life, presenting the books of the People of
the Book as never before.
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.
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the caves near Qumran in
1947 sparked near endless speculation about the possible
connections between the Essenesapurportedly the inhabitants of the
settlementaand the birth, nature, and growth of early Christianity.
Jesus, the Essenes, and Christian Origins sheds new light on this
old question by reexamining the complex relationships among Qumran,
the historical Jesus, the Essenes, and Christian origins within
first-century Palestinian Judaism. Author Simon J. Joseph's careful
examination of a number of distinctive passages in the Jesus
tradition in light of Qumran-Essene texts focuses on major points
of contact between the Qumran-Essene community and early
Christianity in four areas of belief and practice: covenant
identity, messianism, eschatology, and halakhah (legal
interpretation), placing the weight of his argument for continuity
and discontinuity on the halakhic topics of divorce, Sabbath,
sacrifice, celibacy, and violence. Joseph focuses on the
historical, cultural, chronological, and theological
correspondences as convergence. This not only illuminates the
historical Jesus' teachings as distinctive, developing and
extending earlier Jewish ethical and halakhic thought, it also
clarifies the emergence of early Christianity in relationship to
Palestinian Essenism. By bringing this holistic analysis of the
evidence to bear, Joseph adds a powerful and insightful voice to
the decades-long debate surrounding the Essenes and Christianity.
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Originally published in English in 1949, The Prophetic Faith
features Martin Buber's readings of select biblical
prophets--especially Isaiah and Deborah, the only female prophet
and judge in the Hebrew Bible. In an approach that combines
insights from biblical prophecy with a concern for events in the
here and now, Buber outlines his interpretation of biblical
revelation. Infused with an anti-institutional--some have said
anarchic--sensibility, Buber discusses the notion of kingship as
portrayed in the Bible and provides an account of human suffering
in an extended discussion of the Book of Job. Anticipating those
today who describe themselves as "spiritual but not religious,"
Buber gives pride of place to a personal God outside of formal
religious and legal strictures. Featuring a new introduction by Jon
D. Levenson, The Prophetic Faith encourages a renewed appreciation
for the Hebrew Bible and its relevance to the practical challenges
of the present day.
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