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The Names of God in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - A Basis for Interfaith Dialogue (Hardcover, New): Maire Byrne The Names of God in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - A Basis for Interfaith Dialogue (Hardcover, New)
Maire Byrne
R5,260 Discovery Miles 52 600 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book offers a welcome solution to the growing need for a common language in interfaith dialogue; particularly between the three Abrahamic faiths in our modern pluralistic society. The book suggests that the names given to God in the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and the Quran, could be the very foundations and building blocks for a common language between the Jewish, Christian and Islamic faiths. On both a formal interfaith level, as well as between everyday followers of each doctrine, this book facilitates a more fruitful and universal understanding and respect of each sacred text; exploring both the commonalities and differences between the each theology and their individual receptions. In a practical application of the methodologies of comparative theology, Maire Byrne shows that the titles, names and epithets given to God in the sacred texts of Judaism, Christianity and Islam contribute towards similar images of God in each case, and elucidates the importance of this for providing a viable starting point for interfaith dialogue.

The Disputation at Barcelona - Ramban: Nahmanides (Hardcover): Charles B Chavel The Disputation at Barcelona - Ramban: Nahmanides (Hardcover)
Charles B Chavel; Ramban, Rabbi Nahmanides
R484 R449 Discovery Miles 4 490 Save R35 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Impurity and Gender in the Hebrew Bible (Hardcover): Elizabeth W. Goldstein Impurity and Gender in the Hebrew Bible (Hardcover)
Elizabeth W. Goldstein
R2,307 Discovery Miles 23 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Impurity and Gender in the Hebrew Bible explores the role of female blood in the Hebrew Bible and considers its theological implications for future understandings of purity and impurity in the Jewish religion. Influenced by the work of Jonathan Klawans (Sin and Impurity in Ancient Judaism), and using the categories of ritual and moral impurities, this book analyzes the way in which these categories intersect with women and with the impurity of female blood, and reads the biblical foundations of purity and blood taboos with a feminist lens. Ultimately, the purpose of this book is to understand the intersection between impurity and gender, figuratively and non-figuratively, in the Hebrew Bible. Goldstein traces this intersection from the years 1000 BCE-250 BCE and ends with a consideration of female impurity in the literature of Qumran.

Religious Zionism with Extensive Bibliography (Hardcover): David B. Levy Religious Zionism with Extensive Bibliography (Hardcover)
David B. Levy
R816 Discovery Miles 8 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Ancient Hebrew Law of Homicide (Hardcover): Mayer Sulzberger The Ancient Hebrew Law of Homicide (Hardcover)
Mayer Sulzberger
R695 Discovery Miles 6 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Stick of Joseph in the Hand of Ephraim - Large Print (Hardcover, Annotated edition): Yosef Ben Yosef The Stick of Joseph in the Hand of Ephraim - Large Print (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Yosef Ben Yosef; Adapted by Restoration Scriptures Foundation
R1,158 Discovery Miles 11 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Translation of the Belchatow Yizkor Book - Dedicated To The Memory Of A Vanished Jewish Town In Poland (Hardcover): Mark... Translation of the Belchatow Yizkor Book - Dedicated To The Memory Of A Vanished Jewish Town In Poland (Hardcover)
Mark Turkov, Abraham Mittleberg
R1,543 R1,307 Discovery Miles 13 070 Save R236 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Touch of Doubt - On Haptic Scepticism (Hardcover): Rachel Aumiller A Touch of Doubt - On Haptic Scepticism (Hardcover)
Rachel Aumiller
R2,797 Discovery Miles 27 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What can we know about ourselves and the world through the sense of touch and what are the epistemic limits of touch? Scepticism claims that there is always something that slips through the epistemologist's grasp. A Touch of Doubt explores the significance of touch for the history of philosophical scepticism as well as for scepticism as an embodied form of subversive political, religious, and artistic practice. Drawing on the tradition of scepticism within nineteenth- and twentieth-century continental philosophy and psychoanalysis, this volume discusses how the sense of touch uncovers contradictions within our knowledge of ourselves and the world. It questions 1) what we can know through touch, 2) what we can know about touch itself, and 3) how our experience of touching the other and ourselves throws us into a state of doubt. This volume is intended for students and scholars who wish to reconsider the experience of touching in intersections of philosophy, religion, art, and social and political practice.

Margarete Susman - Religious-Political Essays on Judaism (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Elisa Klapheck Margarete Susman - Religious-Political Essays on Judaism (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Elisa Klapheck; Translated by Laura Radosh
R3,880 Discovery Miles 38 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Margarete Susman was among the great Jewish women philosophers of the twentieth century, and largely unknown to many today. This book presents, for the first time in English, six of her important essays along with an introduction about her life and work. Carefully selected and edited by Elisa Klapheck, these essays give the English-speaking reader a taste of Susman's religious-political mode of thought, her originality, and her importance as Jewish thinker. Susman's writing on exile, return, and the revolutionary impact of Judaism on humanity, illuminate enhance our understanding of other Jewish philosophers of her time: Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, and Ernst Bloch (all of them her friends). Her work is in particularly fitting company when read alongside Jewish religious-political and political thinkers such as Bertha Pappenheim, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, and Gertrud Stein. Initially a poet, Susman became a follower of the Jewish Renaissance movement, secular Messianism, and the German Revolution of 1918. This collection of essays shows how Susman's work speaks not only to her own time between the two World Wars but to the present day.

Neither Yavne nor Antioch (Hardcover): Joel Heller Neither Yavne nor Antioch (Hardcover)
Joel Heller
R900 R773 Discovery Miles 7 730 Save R127 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Franci's War - The incredible true story of one woman's survival of the Holocaust (Hardcover): Franci Rabinek Epstein Franci's War - The incredible true story of one woman's survival of the Holocaust (Hardcover)
Franci Rabinek Epstein 1
R462 R421 Discovery Miles 4 210 Save R41 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

What are you willing to do to survive? What are you willing to endure if it means you might live? 'Achingly moving, gives much-needed hope . . . Deserves the status both as a valuable historical source and as a stand-out memoir' Daily Express 'A story that needs to be heard' 5***** Reader Review Entering Terezin, a Nazi concentration camp, Franci was expected to die. She refused. In the summer of 1942, twenty-two-year-old Franci Rabinek - designated a Jew by the Nazi racial laws - arrived at Terezin, a concentration camp and ghetto forty miles north of her home in Prague. It would be the beginning of her three-year journey from Terezin to the Czech family camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau, to the slave labour camps in Hamburg, and finally to Bergen Belsen. Franci, a spirited and glamorous young woman, was known among her fellow inmates as the Prague dress designer. Having endured the transportation of her parents, she never forgot her mother's parting words: 'Your only duty to us is to stay alive'. During an Auschwitz selection, Franci would spontaneously lie to Nazi officer Dr Josef Mengele, and claim to be an electrician. A split-second decision that would go on to endanger - and save - her life. Unpublished for 50 years, Franci's War is an astonishing account of one woman's attempt to survive. Heartbreaking and candid, Franci finds the light in her darkest years and the horrors she faces instill in her, strength and resilience to survive and to live again. She gives a voice to the women prisoners in her tight-knit circle of friends. Her testimony sheds new light on the alliances, love affairs, and sexual barter that took place during the Holocaust, offering a compelling insight into the resilience and courage of ordinary people in an extraordinary situation. Above all, Franci's War asks us to explore what it takes to survive, and what it means to truly live. 'A candid account of shocking events. Franci is someone many women today will be able to identify with' 5***** Reader Review 'First-hand accounts of life in Nazi death camps never lose their terrible power but few are as extraordinary as Franci's War' Mail on Sunday 'Fascinating and traumatic. Well worth a read' 5***** Reader Review

Anticipating the Advent - Looking for Messiah in All the Right Places (Hardcover): William Varner Anticipating the Advent - Looking for Messiah in All the Right Places (Hardcover)
William Varner
R788 Discovery Miles 7 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Signifying Creator - Nontextual Sources of Meaning in Ancient Judaism (Hardcover, New): Michael D Swartz The Signifying Creator - Nontextual Sources of Meaning in Ancient Judaism (Hardcover, New)
Michael D Swartz
R2,347 Discovery Miles 23 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

For centuries, Jews have been known as the "people of the book." It is commonly thought that Judaism in the first several centuries CE found meaning exclusively in textual sources. But there is another approach to meaning to be found in ancient Judaism, one that sees it in the natural world and derives it from visual clues rather than textual ones. According to this conception, God embedded hidden signs in the world that could be read by human beings and interpreted according to complex systems. In exploring the diverse functions of signs outside of the realm of the written word, Swartz introduces unfamiliar sources and motifs from the formative age of Judaism, including magical and divination texts and new interpretations of legends and midrashim from classical rabbinic literature. He shows us how ancient Jews perceived these signs and read them, elaborating on their use of divination, symbolic interpretation of physical features and dress, and interpretations of historical events. As we learn how these ancient people read the world, we begin to see how ancient people found meaning in unexpected ways.

Lady Liberty - The Ancient Goddess of America (Hardcover): Richard N. Rhoades Lady Liberty - The Ancient Goddess of America (Hardcover)
Richard N. Rhoades
R956 R834 Discovery Miles 8 340 Save R122 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Statue of Liberty holds a special place in the hearts of Americans, the people of France, and freedom lovers throughout the world. But up until now, the full story behind its origins has not been told.

Author Richard N. Rhoades peels back the mystery surrounding the icon, explaining how French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi looked to a Roman goddess to serve as the model for the statue. On Oct. 28, 1886, at the unveiling ceremony, President Grover Cleveland praised Bartholdi's goddess statue as "greater than all that have been celebrated in ancient song."

But Rhoades goes beyond the historical data and examines the statue's pagan origins by analyzing Scripture. He establishes that the most revealing chroniclers of the Statue of Liberty were the Hebrew prophets who predicted the building and setting of an image of the Great Goddess of the ancient world on her own pedestal in a latter day country codenamed "the land of Shinar."

Discover the real origins of the Statue of Liberty, its adoption by the American people as a national icon and its historical and biblical signifi cance in "Lady Liberty: The Ancient Goddess of America."

Applying Jewish Ethics - Beyond the Rabbinic Tradition (Hardcover): Jennifer A. Thompson, Allison B Wolf Applying Jewish Ethics - Beyond the Rabbinic Tradition (Hardcover)
Jennifer A. Thompson, Allison B Wolf; Contributions by Leah Kalmanson, Andrea Lehner, Naomi Scheman, …
R2,171 Discovery Miles 21 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Applying Jewish Ethics: Beyond the Rabbinic Tradition is a groundbreaking collection that introduces the reader to applied ethics and examines various social issues from contemporary and largely under-represented, Jewish ethical perspectives. For thousands of years, a rich and complex system of Jewish ethics has provided guidance about which values we should uphold and utilize to confront concrete problems, create a healthy social fabric, and inspire meaningful lives. Despite its longevity and richness, many Judaic and secular scholars have misconstrued this ethical tradition as a strictly religious and biblically based system that primarily applies to observant Jews, rather than viewing it as an ethical system that can provide unique and helpful insights to anyone, religious or not. This pioneering collection offers a deep, broad, and inclusive understanding of Jewish ethical ideas that challenges these misconceptions. The chapters explain and apply these ethical ideas to contemporary issues connected to racial justice, immigration, gender justice, queer identity, and economic and environmental justice in ways that illustrate their relevance for Jews and non-Jews alike.

Becoming Frum - How Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of Orthodox Judaism (Hardcover, New): Sarah Benor Becoming Frum - How Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of Orthodox Judaism (Hardcover, New)
Sarah Benor
R3,164 Discovery Miles 31 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

When non-Orthodox Jews become frum (religious), they encounter much more than dietary laws and Sabbath prohibitions. They find themselves in the midst of a whole new culture, involving matchmakers, homemade gefilte fish, and Yiddish-influenced grammar. Becoming Frum explains how these newcomers learn Orthodox language and culture through their interactions with community veterans and other newcomers. Some take on as much as they can as quickly as they can, going beyond the norms of those raised in the community. Others maintain aspects of their pre-Orthodox selves, yielding unique combinations, like Matisyahu's reggae music or Hebrew words and sing-song intonation used with American slang, as in "mamish (really) keepin' it real." Sarah Bunin Benor brings insight into the phenomenon of adopting a new identity based on ethnographic and sociolinguistic research among men and women in an American Orthodox community. Her analysis is applicable to other situations of adult language socialization, such as students learning medical jargon or Canadians moving to Australia. Becoming Frum offers a scholarly and accessible look at the linguistic and cultural process of "becoming."

When Judaism Meets Science (Hardcover): Roger L. Price When Judaism Meets Science (Hardcover)
Roger L. Price
R1,683 R1,375 Discovery Miles 13 750 Save R308 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Balkan Route - Historical Transformations from Via Militaris to Autoput (Hardcover): Florian Riedler, Nenad Stefanov The Balkan Route - Historical Transformations from Via Militaris to Autoput (Hardcover)
Florian Riedler, Nenad Stefanov
R2,898 Discovery Miles 28 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume approaches the topic of mobility in Southeast Europe by offering the first detailed historical study of the land route connecting Istanbul with Belgrade. After this route that diagonally crosses Southeast Europe had been established in Roman times, it was as important for the Byzantines as the Ottomans to rule their Balkan territories. In the nineteenth century, the road was upgraded to a railroad and, most recently, to a motorway. The contributions in this volume focus on the period from the Middle Ages to the present day. They explore the various transformations of the route as well as its transformative role for the cities and regions along its course. This not only concerns the political function of the route to project the power of the successive empires. Also the historical actors such as merchants, travelling diplomats, Turkish guest workers or Middle Eastern refugees together with the various social, economic and cultural effects of their mobility are in the focus of attention. The overall aim is to gain a deeper understanding of Southeast Europe by foregrounding historical continuities and disruptions from a long-term perspective and by bringing into dialogue different national and regional approaches.

Didymus the Blind and the Alexandrian Christian Reception of Philo (Hardcover): Justin M. Rogers Didymus the Blind and the Alexandrian Christian Reception of Philo (Hardcover)
Justin M. Rogers
R1,298 Discovery Miles 12 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The History of the Jews in China (Hardcover): S. M. Perlmann The History of the Jews in China (Hardcover)
S. M. Perlmann
R820 Discovery Miles 8 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Brother Jesus - The Nazarene through Jewish Eyes (Hardcover): Schalom Ben-Chorin Brother Jesus - The Nazarene through Jewish Eyes (Hardcover)
Schalom Ben-Chorin; Translated by Jared S. Klein, Max Reinhart
R2,866 Discovery Miles 28 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

No matter what we would make of Jesus, says Schalom Ben-Chorin, he was first a Jewish man in a Jewish land. Brother Jesus leads us through the twists and turns of history to reveal the figure who extends a "brotherly hand" to the author as a fellow Jew. Ben-Chorin's reach is astounding as he moves easily between literature, law, etymology, psychology, and theology to recover "Jesus' picture from the Christian overpainting." A commanding scholar of the historical Jesus who also devoted his life to widening Jewish-Christian dialogue, Ben-Chorin ranges across such events as the wedding at Cana, the Last Supper, and the crucifixion to reveal, in contemporary Christianity, traces of the Jewish codes and customs in which Jesus was immersed. Not only do we see how and why these events also resonate with Jews, but we are brought closer to Christianity in its primitive state: radical, directionless, even pagan. Early in his book, Ben-Chorin writes, "the belief of Jesus unifies us, but the belief in Jesus divides us." It is the kind of paradox from which arise endless questions or, as Ben-Chorin would have it, endless opportunities for Jews and Christians to come together for meaningful, mutual discovery.

The Roman Empire the Empire of the Edomite (Hardcover): William Beeston The Roman Empire the Empire of the Edomite (Hardcover)
William Beeston
R498 Discovery Miles 4 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Darkness Deepens - Volume 4 of 5 (Hardcover): Mark Timothy Morgan The Darkness Deepens - Volume 4 of 5 (Hardcover)
Mark Timothy Morgan
R712 Discovery Miles 7 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Origin of the Hebrews and Their Faith (Hardcover): Aaron Tomer The Origin of the Hebrews and Their Faith (Hardcover)
Aaron Tomer
R933 R794 Discovery Miles 7 940 Save R139 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
4QInstruction (Hardcover): Matthew J. Goff 4QInstruction (Hardcover)
Matthew J. Goff
R1,516 Discovery Miles 15 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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