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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Judaism > General

Imagery Techniques in Modern Jewish Mysticism (Hardcover): Daniel Reiser Imagery Techniques in Modern Jewish Mysticism (Hardcover)
Daniel Reiser
R4,620 Discovery Miles 46 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book analyzes and describes the development and aspects of imagery techniques, a primary mode of mystical experience, in twentieth century Jewish mysticism. These techniques, in contrast to linguistic techniques in medieval Kabbalah and in contrast to early Hasidism, have all the characteristics of a full screenplay, a long and complicated plot woven together from many scenes, a kind of a feature film. Research on this development and nature of the imagery experience is carried out through comparison to similar developments in philosophy and psychology and is fruitfully contextualized within broader trends of western and eastern mysticism.

Israel and the Church - The Origins and Effects of Replacement Theology (Paperback): Ronald E. Diprose Israel and the Church - The Origins and Effects of Replacement Theology (Paperback)
Ronald E. Diprose
R818 R712 Discovery Miles 7 120 Save R106 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Modern Israel and its relations with its Arab neighbors has been conspicuously in the daily news ever since World War II. Until that time, the concept of Israel and a continuing Jewish people had been hovering in the distant background of Christian thought and doctrine since the post-apostolic era. In this important work, Dr. Diprose demonstrates the uniqueness of Israel and its special place in the divine plan. By carefully reviewing relevant New Testament and post-apostolic writings, the author traces the origin and development of Replacement Theology--the concept that the Church has completely and permanently replaced ethnic Israel in the outworking of God's plan throughout history--challenging its origin and role in the development of Christian thought on the future of ethnic Israel.

American Jewish Year Book 2019 - The Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities Since 1899 (Hardcover, 1st ed.... American Jewish Year Book 2019 - The Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities Since 1899 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Arnold Dashefsky, Ira M Sheskin
R6,368 Discovery Miles 63 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Part I of each volume will feature 5-7 major review chapters, including 2-3 long chapters reviewing topics of major concern to the American Jewish community written by top experts on each topic, review chapters on "National Affairs" and "Jewish Communal Affairs" and articles on the Jewish population of the United States and the World Jewish Population. Future major review chapters will include such topics as Jewish Education in America, American Jewish Philanthropy, Israel/Diaspora Relations, American Jewish Demography, American Jewish History, LGBT Issues in American Jewry, American Jews and National Elections, Orthodox Judaism in the US, Conservative Judaism in the US, Reform Judaism in the US, Jewish Involvement in the Labor Movement, Perspectives in American Jewish Sociology, Recent Trends in American Judaism, Impact of Feminism on American Jewish Life, American Jewish Museums, Anti-Semitism in America, and Inter-Religious Dialogue in America. Part II-V of each volume will continue the tradition of listing Jewish Federations, national Jewish organizations, Jewish periodicals, and obituaries. But to this list are added lists of Jewish Community Centers, Jewish Camps, Jewish Museums, Holocaust Museums, and Jewish honorees (both those honored through awards by Jewish organizations and by receiving honors, such as Presidential Medals of Freedom and Academy Awards, from the secular world). We expand the Year Book tradition of bringing academic research to the Jewish communal world by adding lists of academic journals, articles in academic journals on Jewish topics, Jewish websites, and books on American and Canadian Jews. Finally, we add a list of major events in the North American Jewish Community.

Siddur Ner Tamid - Weekday - Transliterated Sephardic Siddur (Edot HaMizrach) (Hardcover, Weekday ed.): Eitz Echad Siddur Ner Tamid - Weekday - Transliterated Sephardic Siddur (Edot HaMizrach) (Hardcover, Weekday ed.)
Eitz Echad
R910 Discovery Miles 9 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Priests and Cults in the Book of the Twelve (Hardcover): Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer Priests and Cults in the Book of the Twelve (Hardcover)
Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
R1,358 Discovery Miles 13 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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
R3,376 Discovery Miles 33 760 Ships in 12 - 19 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.

Modern Jewish Scholarship on Islam in Context - Rationality, European Borders, and the Search for Belonging (Hardcover):... Modern Jewish Scholarship on Islam in Context - Rationality, European Borders, and the Search for Belonging (Hardcover)
Ottfried Fraisse
R3,495 Discovery Miles 34 950 Ships in 12 - 19 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.

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
R4,453 Discovery Miles 44 530 Ships in 12 - 19 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.

Portraits of Adult Jewish Learning (Hardcover): Diane Tickton Schuster Portraits of Adult Jewish Learning (Hardcover)
Diane Tickton Schuster; Foreword by Jon A. Levisohn
R1,125 R948 Discovery Miles 9 480 Save R177 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
...and Turn It Again - Theme and Sacred Variations (Hardcover): Simeon J Maslin ...and Turn It Again - Theme and Sacred Variations (Hardcover)
Simeon J Maslin
R912 Discovery Miles 9 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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
R6,297 Discovery Miles 62 970 Ships in 12 - 19 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.

Zadok's Heirs - The Role and Development of the High Priesthood in Ancient Israel (Hardcover): Deborah W. Rooke Zadok's Heirs - The Role and Development of the High Priesthood in Ancient Israel (Hardcover)
Deborah W. Rooke
R8,136 Discovery Miles 81 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This unique study is the first systematic examination to be undertaken of the high priesthood in ancient Israel, from the earliest local chief priests in the pre-monarchic period down to the Hasmonaean priest-kings in the first century BCE. It discusses material from the Old Testament and Apocrypha, together with contemporary documents and coins. It challenges the view that by virtue of his office the high priest became sole political leader of the Jews in later times.

Biblical Interpretation in Judaism and Christianity (Hardcover): Isaac Kalimi, Peter J. Haas Biblical Interpretation in Judaism and Christianity (Hardcover)
Isaac Kalimi, Peter J. Haas
R5,615 Discovery Miles 56 150 Ships in 12 - 19 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.

The Development and Symbolism of Passover (Hardcover): Tamara Prosic The Development and Symbolism of Passover (Hardcover)
Tamara Prosic
R6,285 Discovery Miles 62 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Tamara Prosic gives a new explanation of the origins, development and symbolism of Passover. First, she examines Passover from the diachronic perspective, tracing its development from the period before the centralisation of the cult until the second destruction of the temple. Issues with previous scholarship are considered, while at the same time she places the study of Passover within the framework of the new paradigm of historical studies of ancient Israel that advocates the indigenous Canaanitic origin of Israelites. The second part of the book is synchronic in its approach to Passover and deals with its symbolism. Prosic discusses Passover in biblical legends arguing that the pre-Yahwistic Passover was essentially a rite of passage. From there the investigation moves to symbolic elements of Passover such as time symbolism, space symbolism and symbolism of the sacrifice. This is volume 414 in the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement series.

Jewish FAQs (Hardcover): Rabbi Daniel Kohn, Daniel B. Kohn Jewish FAQs (Hardcover)
Rabbi Daniel Kohn, Daniel B. Kohn
R936 Discovery Miles 9 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Jews and Christians in the Holy Land - Palestine in the Fourth Century (Hardcover): Gunter Stemberger Jews and Christians in the Holy Land - Palestine in the Fourth Century (Hardcover)
Gunter Stemberger
R5,259 Discovery Miles 52 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The fourth century is often referred to as the first Christian century, and for the Jews a period of decline and persecution. But was this change really so immediate and irreversible? What was the real impact of the Christianization of the Roman Empire on the Jews, especially in their own land?

Stemberger draws on all available sources, literary and archaeological, Christian as well as pagan and Jewish, to reconstruct the history of the different religious communities of Palestine in the fourth century.

This book demonstrates how lively, creative, and resourceful the Jewish communities remained.

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
R5,015 Discovery Miles 50 150 Ships in 12 - 19 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.

The Book of Concealed Mystery (Hardcover): Continuum The Book of Concealed Mystery (Hardcover)
Continuum
R616 Discovery Miles 6 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Continuum announces a new series of classic works of mysticism with representative texts from all the major world religions: Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism.

A mix of familiar texts with proven sales potential and less familiar works with untapped readerships will introduce the committed of all faiths to key contemplative texts from outside their traditions. Each volume will be bound with lavish, full-color covers, and illustrated throughout.

The Book of Concealed Mystery is a book of the key text of the Kabbalah, a work known as the Zohar ("Splendour"). The Zohar is a commentary on the Torah and although it is sometimes ascribed to a second-century rabbi, Simon Bar-Yochai, the form in which it is most widely known originates with Moses of Leon, a native of Granada, who died in 1305.

The kabbalists believe that the undefinable origin of all things is Ein Sof -- the cause of causes, the infinite, that which underlies everything. The universe emanates from the divine in successive layers called esefiroti. Everything exists in God, but God extends infinitely beyond existence. All we know and are is linked together, pervaded and maintained by the divine. According to The Book of Concealed Mystery, the light of God must be concealed in order to be revealed to creation. Even though the kabbalists believe that ultimately Ein Sof is beyond expression or understanding, the contemplation of God's presence in all things causes our thoughts to be purified

The Boundaries of Jewishness in the Southern Levant 200 BCE-132 CE - Power, Strategies, and Ethnic Configurations (Hardcover):... The Boundaries of Jewishness in the Southern Levant 200 BCE-132 CE - Power, Strategies, and Ethnic Configurations (Hardcover)
John Van Maaren
R3,112 Discovery Miles 31 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Recent research has considered how changing imperial contexts influence conceptions of Jewishness among ruling elites (esp. Eckhardt, Ethnos und Herrschaft, 2013). This study integrates other, often marginal, conceptions with elite perspectives. It uses the ethnic boundary making model, an empirically based sociological model, to link macro-level characteristics of the social field with individual agency in ethnic construction. It uses a wide range of written sources as evidence for constructions of Jewishness and relates these to a local-specific understanding of demographic and institutional characteristics, informed by material culture. The result is a diachronic study of how institutional changes under Seleucid, Hasmonean, and Early Roman rule influenced the ways that members of the ruling elite, retainer class, and marginalized groups presented their preferred visions of Jewishness. These sometimes-competing visions advance different strategies to maintain, rework, or blur the boundaries between Jews and others. The study provides the next step toward a thick description of Jewishness in antiquity by introducing needed systematization for relating written sources from different social strata with their contexts.

Between Jewish Tradition and Modernity - Rethinking an Old Opposition Essays in Honor of David Ellenson (Hardcover): Michael A.... Between Jewish Tradition and Modernity - Rethinking an Old Opposition Essays in Honor of David Ellenson (Hardcover)
Michael A. Meyer, David N. Myers
R1,304 Discovery Miles 13 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Although the ideas of ""tradition"" and ""modernity"" may seem to be directly opposed, David Ellenson, a leading contemporary scholar of modern Jewish thought, understood that these concepts can also enjoy a more fluid relationship. In honor of Ellenson, editors Michael A. Meyer and David N. Myers have gathered contributors for Between Jewish Tradition and Modernity: Rethinking an Old Opposition to examine the permutations and adaptations of these intertwined forms of Jewish expression. Contributions draw from a range of disciplines and scholarly interests and range in subject from the theological to the liturgical, sociological, and literary. The geographic and historical focus of the volume is on the United States and the State of Israel, both of which have been major sites of inquiry in Ellenson's work. In twenty-two essays, contributors demonstrate that modernity did not simply replace tradition in Judaism but rather entered into a variety of relationships with it: adopting or adapting certain elements, repossessing rituals that had once been abandoned, or struggling with its continuing influence. In four parts - Law, Ritual, Thought, and Culture - contributors explore a variety of subjects, including the role of reform in Israeli Orthodoxy, traditions of twentieth-century bar/bat mitzvah, end-of-life ethics, tensions between Zionism and American Jewry, and the rise of a 1960s New York Jewish countrerculture. An introductory essay also presents an appreciation of Ellenson's scholarly contribution. Bringing together leading Jewish historians, anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers and liturgists, Between Jewish Tradition and Modernity offers a collective view of a historically and culturally significant issue that will be of interest to Jewish scholars of many discplines. Contributors Include: Adam S. Ferziger, Jack Wertheimer, Jonathan D. Sarna, Deborah E. Lipstadt, Michael A. Meyer, Steven M. Lowenstein, William Cutter, Riv-Ellen Prell, Carole B. Balin, Arnold J. Band, Paula E. Hyman, Zvi Zohar, Elliot N. Dorff, Isa Aron, Dalia Marx, Arnold M. Eisen, Michael Marmur, Rachel Adler, Lewis M. Barth, Lawrence A. Hoffman, Wendy I. Zierler.

Rose Guide to the Feasts, Festivals and Fasts of the Bible (Hardcover): Paul H. Wright Rose Guide to the Feasts, Festivals and Fasts of the Bible (Hardcover)
Paul H. Wright; As told to Moshe Silberschein, Ophir Yarden, Steven P Lancaster, Heidi Kinner
R890 R761 Discovery Miles 7 610 Save R129 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days
Sins Of Omission - The Jewish Community's Reaction To Domestic Violence (Hardcover, New): Carol Kaufman Sins Of Omission - The Jewish Community's Reaction To Domestic Violence (Hardcover, New)
Carol Kaufman
R1,169 Discovery Miles 11 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A compelling investigation of the Jewish communitys reaction or nonreaction to domestic violence. In a congregation of devoted worshippers gathered for Shabbat services at the local synagogue, it may be difficult to accept how many wives go home with their husbands to ongoing physical and emotional abuse. In Sins of Omission, author Carol Goodman Kaufman offers a compelling investigation of the Jewish communitys reaction or nonreaction to domestic violence. Concerned with the sins of the community more than the sins of the abuser, Goodman Kaufman finds that the Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform rabbis and community leaders are not doing enough and are not informed enough to help the abused women in their congregations get the support, protection, and guidance they need. Through her many insightful interviews with survivors of abuse, rabbis, and lay community leaders, the author takes a hard look at the Jewish community, its rules, regulations, and followers, and discovers the ways in which it helps and hinders victims of abuse.

The Art of the Book Review Part IVb - My pen is my harp and my lyre; my library is my garden and my orchard (Hardcover): David... The Art of the Book Review Part IVb - My pen is my harp and my lyre; my library is my garden and my orchard (Hardcover)
David B. Levy
R1,214 Discovery Miles 12 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Testament of Abraham (Hardcover): Dale C. Allison Testament of Abraham (Hardcover)
Dale C. Allison
R4,911 Discovery Miles 49 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This first verse-by-verse commentary on the Greek text of the Testament of Abraham places the work within the history of both Jewish and Christian literature. It emphasizes the literary artistry and comedic nature of the Testament, brings to the task of interpretation a mass of comparative material, and establishes that, although the Testament goes back to a Jewish tale of the first or second century CE, the Christian elements are much more extensive than has previously been realized. The commentary further highlights the dependence of the Testament upon both Greco-Roman mythology and the Jewish Bible. This should be the standard commentary for years to come.

The Breath of Life - Torah, Intelligent Design and Evolution (Hardcover): Yitzchak Ginsburgh The Breath of Life - Torah, Intelligent Design and Evolution (Hardcover)
Yitzchak Ginsburgh
R875 Discovery Miles 8 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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