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The Land Shall Not Be Sold in Perpetuity - The Jewish National Fund and the History of State Ownership of Land in Israel... The Land Shall Not Be Sold in Perpetuity - The Jewish National Fund and the History of State Ownership of Land in Israel (Hardcover, Digital original)
Yossi Katz
R3,482 Discovery Miles 34 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The State of Israel is the only Western state where the majority of lands are still owned by the State and by a public body related to it (The Jewish National Fund). At the root lies the divine command stating that the Land of Israel belongs to God and therefore should not be traded in perpetuity (Leviticus 25). This principle has been applied to almost all of the State lands, and was established in a Basic Law. Since the 1980s there were many pressures in Israel to privatize at least part of the State's and JNF's lands, due to the general privatization process of Israel's economy, the deepening globalization process, and the transformation of Israel to an individualistic society. However, only a small portion of the lands were privatized, constituting 4% of the area of Israel. The book is based wholly on primary sources. It describes and analyzes the history of the ideological, social and legal processes that took place and their development since the beginning of the 20th century until today - processes that brought about the unique phenomenon of the State of Israel as an advanced capitalistic state whose lands are mostly state-owned.

Some Aspects of Rabbinic Theology [microform] (Hardcover): Solomon 1847-1915 Schechter Some Aspects of Rabbinic Theology [microform] (Hardcover)
Solomon 1847-1915 Schechter
R1,040 Discovery Miles 10 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Wisdom - Integrating Torah and Science (Hardcover): Yitzchak Ginsburgh, Moshe Genuth Wisdom - Integrating Torah and Science (Hardcover)
Yitzchak Ginsburgh, Moshe Genuth
R1,105 Discovery Miles 11 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Unique Family Law in the State of Israel (Hardcover): Yitshak Cohen The Unique Family Law in the State of Israel (Hardcover)
Yitshak Cohen
R2,793 Discovery Miles 27 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the State of Israel, the unique family law derives from ancient Jewish law, halakhic traditions, and an extensive legal tradition spanning many centuries and geographic locations. This book examines Israeli family law in comparison with the corresponding law in the United States and illuminates common issues in legal systems worldwide. The Israeli system is primarily controlled by the religious law of the parties. Thus, religious courts were also established and granted enforcement powers equivalent to those of the civil courts. This is a complex situation because the religious law applied in these courts is not always consistent with gender equality and civil rights practiced in civil court. This book seeks to clarify that tension and offer solutions. The comprehensive analysis in this book may serve as a guide for those interested in family law: civil court judges, rabbinical court judges, lawyers, mediators, arbitrators, and families themselves. Topics central to the book include issues subject to modification, the right of a minor to independent status, extramarital relationships, and joint property.

The Sacred Now (Hardcover): Mark Elber The Sacred Now (Hardcover)
Mark Elber
R956 R812 Discovery Miles 8 120 Save R144 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Experience, Explanation and Faith - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion (Paperback): Anthony O'Hear Experience, Explanation and Faith - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion (Paperback)
Anthony O'Hear
R1,563 Discovery Miles 15 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this book Anthony O'Hear examines the reasons that are given for religious faith. His approach is firmly within the classical tradition of natural theology, but an underlying theme is the differences between the personal Creator of the Bible or the Koran and a God conceived of as the indeterminate ground of everything determinate. Drawing on several religious traditions and on the resources of contemporary philosophy, specific chapters analyse the nature of religious faith and of religious experience. They examine connections between religion and morality, and religion and human knowledge - the cosmological, teleological and ontological arguments, process thought, and the problem that evil presents for religion. The final chapter returns to the inherently dogmatic nature of religious faith and concludes that rational people should look beyond religion for the fulfilment of their spiritual needs.

Longing (Hardcover): Justin David Longing (Hardcover)
Justin David
R1,169 R981 Discovery Miles 9 810 Save R188 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Scripture and Interpretation - Qumran Texts that Rework the Bible (Hardcover): Ariel Feldman, Liora Goldman Scripture and Interpretation - Qumran Texts that Rework the Bible (Hardcover)
Ariel Feldman, Liora Goldman; Edited by Devorah Dimant
R3,257 Discovery Miles 32 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls more than sixty years ago has revealed a wealth of literary compositions which rework the Hebrew Bible in various ways. This genre seems to have been a popular literary form in ancient Judaism literature. However, the Qumran texts of this type are particularly interesting for they offer for the first time a large sample of such compositions in their original languages, Hebrew and Aramaic. Since the rewritten Bible texts do not use the particular style and nomenclature specific to the literature produced by the Qumran community. Many of these texts are unknown from any other sources, and have been published only during the last two decades. They therefore became the object of intense scholarly study. However, most the attention has been directed to the longer specimens, such as the Hebrew Book of Jubilees and the Aramaic Genesis Apocryphon. The present volume addresses the less known and poorly studied pieces, a group of eleven small Hebrew texts that rework the Hebrew Bible. It provides fresh editions, translations and detailed commentaries for each one. The volume thus places these texts within the larger context of the Qumran library, aiming at completing the data about the rewritten Bible.

The Boundaries of Judaism (Hardcover): Donniel Hartman The Boundaries of Judaism (Hardcover)
Donniel Hartman
R5,251 Discovery Miles 52 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The factionalism and denominationalism of modern Jewry makes it supremely difficult to create a definition of the Jewish people. Instead of serving as a uniting force around which community is formed, Judaism has itself become a source of divisions. Consequently, attempts to identify beliefs or practices essential for membership in the Jewish people are almost doomed to failure.Aiming to take readers beyond the divisions that characterize modern Jewry, this book explores the ever contentious question of who is a Jew. Through a historical survey of the shifting boundaries of Jewish identity and deviance over time, the book provides new insights into how Jewish law over the centuries has erected boundaries to govern and maintain the collective identity of the Jewish people. Drawing on these historical strategies the book identifies the causes and reasons that underlie them, and employs these in order to help construct a guide for creating a structure of boundaries relevant for contemporary Jewish existence.

Tractates Sotah and Nedarim (Hardcover): Heinrich W. Guggenheimer Tractates Sotah and Nedarim (Hardcover)
Heinrich W. Guggenheimer
R7,952 Discovery Miles 79 520 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume, the second of a five-volume edition of the third order of the Jerusalem Talmud, deals in part I (Soa-ah) 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).

The End of the Psalter - Psalms 146-150 in the Masoretic Text, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Septuagint (Hardcover): Alma... The End of the Psalter - Psalms 146-150 in the Masoretic Text, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Septuagint (Hardcover)
Alma Brodersen
R3,868 Discovery Miles 38 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Psalms 146-150, sometimes called "Final Hallel" or "Minor Hallel", are often argued to have been written as a literary end of the Psalter. However, if sources other than the Hebrew Masoretic Text are taken into account, such an original unit of Psalms 146-150 has to be questioned. "The End of the Psalter" presents new interpretations of Psalms 146-150 based on the oldest extant evidence: the Hebrew Masoretic Text, the Hebrew Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Greek Septuagint. Each Psalm is analysed separately in all three sources, complete with a translation and detailed comments on form, intertextuality, content, genre, and date. Comparisons of the individual Psalms and their intertextual references in the ancient sources highlight substantial differences between the transmitted texts. The book concludes that Psalms 146-150 were at first separate texts which only in the Masoretic Text form the end of the Psalter. It thus stresses the importance of Psalms Exegesis before Psalter Exegesis, and argues for the inclusion of ancient sources beyond to the Masoretic Text to further our understanding of the Psalms.

The Reception and Remembrance of Abraham (Hardcover): Pernille Carstens, Niels Peter Lemche The Reception and Remembrance of Abraham (Hardcover)
Pernille Carstens, Niels Peter Lemche; Contributions by Thomas Roemer, Ehud Ben Zvi, Philip Davies
R3,431 Discovery Miles 34 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores the role of the biblical patriarch Abraham in the formation and use of authoritative texts in the Persian and Hellenistic periods. It reflects a conference session in 2009 focusing on Abraham as a figure of cultural memory in the literature of these periods. Cultural memory is the shared reproduction and recalling of what has been learned and retained. It also involves transformation and innovation. As a figure of memory, stories of Abraham served as guidelines for identity-formation and authoritative illustration of behaviour for the emerging Jewish communities.

The Eclipse of Humanity - Heschel's Critique of Heidegger (Hardcover, Digital original): Lawrence Perlman The Eclipse of Humanity - Heschel's Critique of Heidegger (Hardcover, Digital original)
Lawrence Perlman
R3,477 Discovery Miles 34 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

It has been widely assumed that Heschel's writings are poetic inspirations devoid of philosophical analysis and unresponsive to the evil of the Holocaust. Who Is Man? (1965) contains a detailed phenomenological analyis of man and being which is directed at the main work of Martin Heidegger found primarily in Being and Time (1927) and Letter on Humanism (1946). When the analysis of Who Is Man? is unapacked in the light of these associations it is clear that Heschel rejected poetry and metaphor as a means of theological elucidation, that he offered a profound examination of the Holocaust and that the major thrust of his thinking eschews Heidegerrian deconstruction and the postmodernism that ensued in its phenomenological wake. Who Is Man? contains direct and indirect criticisms of Heidegger's notions of 'Dasein', 'thrownness', 'facticity' and 'submission' to name a few essential Heideggerian concepts. In using his ontological connective method in opposition to Heidegger's 'ontological difference', Heschel makes the argument that the biblical notion of Adam as a being open to transcendence stands in oppostion to the philosophical tradition from Parmenides to Heidegger and is the only basis for a redemptive view of humanity.

Blacks in the Jewish Mind - A Crisis of Liberalism (Hardcover): Seth Forman Blacks in the Jewish Mind - A Crisis of Liberalism (Hardcover)
Seth Forman
R3,109 Discovery Miles 31 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"[A] rich, engaging, scholarly, and nuanced chronicle of an . . . often-tormented interethnic, interreligious, interracial relationship."
"--MultiCultural Review"

"Bold and uncompromising. Cleverly, he turns a lot of revisionist race history on its head."
-- "Patterns of Prejudice"

"Insight, authority and scrupulousness are among the virtues of Seth Forman's account of the interaction of two conspicuous minorities in the postwar era. In its clarity and its wisdom, "Blacks in the Jewish Mind" constitutes a marvelous advance over previous scholarship; and in showing how frequently Jews misunderstood their own communal interests, this book offers a challenge to the present even as the past is illuminated."
"--Stephen Whitfield, Brandeis University"

Since the 1960s the relationship between Blacks and Jews has been a contentious one. While others have attempted to explain or repair the break-up of the Jewish alliance on civil rights, Seth Forman here sets out to determine what Jewish thinking on the subject of Black Americans reveals about Jewish identity in the U.S. Why did American Jews get involved in Black causes in the first place? What did they have to gain from it? And what does that tell us about American Jews?

In an extremely provocative analysis, Forman argues that the commitment of American Jews to liberalism, and their historic definition of themselves as victims, has caused them to behave in ways that were defined as good for Blacks, but which in essence were contrary to Jewish interests. They have not been able to dissociate their needs--religious, spiritual, communal, political--from those of African Americans, and have therefore acted in ways whichhave threatened their own cultural vitality.

Avoiding the focus on Black victimization and white racism that often infuses work on Blacks and Jews, Forman emphasizes the complexities inherent in one distinct white ethnic group's involvement in America's racial dilemma.

Two Jews, Three Opinions (Hardcover): Barbara Sheklin Davis Two Jews, Three Opinions (Hardcover)
Barbara Sheklin Davis
R1,016 R861 Discovery Miles 8 610 Save R155 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Kosher Parenting - A Guide for Raising Kids in a Complex World (Hardcover): Herbert J. Cohen Kosher Parenting - A Guide for Raising Kids in a Complex World (Hardcover)
Herbert J. Cohen
R706 R633 Discovery Miles 6 330 Save R73 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Parenting a challenge? Then discover how the timeless wisdom of Judaism can help. Rabbi Herbert Cohen, a parent, teacher, and school principal for decades, gives practical advice to help you develop a better relationship between you and your child. Laced with real-life anecdotes, Kosher Parenting, provides an invaluable resource for parents searching for a more effective way to parent. a penetrating and practical volume that combines the timeless wisdom of our rabbinical sages with the realities of contemporary life. children and students. --Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet, Professor of Talmud, Gruss Kollel of Yeshiva University in Israel The art of parenting is a subtle one that requires much thought. How to share with our children both the skills needed to prosper in modern times and the love of our Creator, vital to making to making that prosperity valuable, is no small task. This book shares the wisdom of its author Rabbi Dr. Herbert Cohen in the art of parenting and is definitely worth reading. --Michael J. Broyde, Dayan, Beth Din of America.

Judaism within Modernity - Essays on Jewish Historiography and Religion (Hardcover): Michael A. Meyer Judaism within Modernity - Essays on Jewish Historiography and Religion (Hardcover)
Michael A. Meyer
R1,264 Discovery Miles 12 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A collection of essays that explore the effects of modernization on Jewish self-understanding. Over the last three centurles, the Jewish experience has been profoundly affected by modernity, which Meyer defines as not only technological advance, cultural innovation, and reliance upon human reason but also as the adaptation of Jews to a modern framework within non-Jewish economies, societies, and cultures. Judaism within Modernity begins with an exploration of Jewish historiography and the problems of periodization in modern Jewish history. In these beginning essays we see the range of Meyer's thinking about what constitutes modernization and how to determine its beginning. He discusses the role of history in defining identity among Jews and suggests that finding an adequate paradigm of continuity is essential to the historian's task. The essays in the second section focus on the Jews of Germany. Here Meyer writes about the influence of German Jews on Jews in the United States, comparing the historical experience of the two communities. These essays also address the intersection of religion, scholarship, and history with politics in nineteenth- and twentiety-century Germany. A third section deals with the European Reform movement, which brought a liberal Judaism to the majority of German Jews. Here Meyer likewise presents a fresh perspective on the way the Reform movement was viewed by those outside of it, especially by non-Jews. The essays in the final section explore Judaism in the United States. In particular, they show how reform Judaism and Zionism were able to recondle their initial differences. Judaism within Modernity is an impressive collection of essays written by a renowned Jewish historian and will be a standard volume for students and scholars of the modern Jewish experience.

Jewish Scholarship on the Resurrection of Jesus (Hardcover): David Mishkin Jewish Scholarship on the Resurrection of Jesus (Hardcover)
David Mishkin
R1,329 R1,103 Discovery Miles 11 030 Save R226 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Female, the Tree, and Creation (Hardcover): James N. Judd The Female, the Tree, and Creation (Hardcover)
James N. Judd; Introduction by Joseph H. Gelberman, Carol E. Parrish-Harra
R821 Discovery Miles 8 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Things that Make for Peace - Jesus and Eschatological Violence (Hardcover): Jesse P Nickel The Things that Make for Peace - Jesus and Eschatological Violence (Hardcover)
Jesse P Nickel
R3,215 Discovery Miles 32 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This study offers fresh insight into the place of (non)violence within Jesus' ministry, by examining it in the context of the eschatologically-motivated revolutionary violence of Second Temple Judaism. The book first explores the connection between violence and eschatology in key literary and historical sources from Second Temple Judaism. The heart of the study then focuses on demonstrating the thematic centrality of Jesus' opposition to such "eschatological violence" within the Synoptic presentations of his ministry, arguing that a proper understanding of eschatology and violence together enables appreciation of the full significance of Jesus' consistent disassociation of revolutionary violence from his words and deeds. The book thus articulates an understanding of Jesus' nonviolence that is firmly rooted in the historical context of Second Temple Judaism, presenting a challenge to the "seditious Jesus hypothesis"-the claim that the historical Jesus was sympathetic to revolutionary ideals. Jesus' rejection of violence ought to be understood as an integral component of his eschatological vision, embodying and enacting his understanding of (i) how God's kingdom would come, and (ii) what would identify those who belonged to it.

Functions of Psalms and Prayers in the Late Second Temple Period (Hardcover, Digital original): Mika S Pajunen, Jeremy Penner Functions of Psalms and Prayers in the Late Second Temple Period (Hardcover, Digital original)
Mika S Pajunen, Jeremy Penner
R5,003 Discovery Miles 50 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

When thinking about psalms and prayers in the Second Temple period, the Masoretic Psalter and its reception is often given priority because of modern academic or theological interests. This emphasis tends to skew our understanding of the corpus we call psalms and prayers and often dampens or mutes the lived context within which these texts were composed and used. This volume is comprised of a collection of articles that explore the diverse settings in which psalms and prayers were used and circulated in the late Second Temple period. The book includes essays by experts in the Hebrew bible, the Dead Sea scrolls, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, and the New Testament, in which a wide variety of topics, approaches, and methods both old and new are utilized to explore the many functions of psalms and prayers in the late Second Temple period. Included in this volume are essays examining how psalms were read as prophecy, as history, as liturgy, and as literature. A variety methodologies are employed, and include the use of cognitive sciences and poetics, linguistic theory, psychology, redaction criticism, and literary theory.

The Birth of Thought in the Spanish Language - 14th century Hebrew-Spanish Philosophy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Ilia Galan Diez The Birth of Thought in the Spanish Language - 14th century Hebrew-Spanish Philosophy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Ilia Galan Diez
R3,216 Discovery Miles 32 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book takes readers on a philosophical discovery of a forgotten treasure, one born in the 14th century but which appears to belong to the 21st. It presents a critical, up-to-date analysis of Santob de Carrion, also known as Sem Tob, a writer and thinker whose philosophy arose in the Spain of the three great cultures: Jews, Christians, and Muslims, who then coexisted in peace. The author first presents a historical and cultural introduction that provides biographical detail as well as context for a greater understand of Santob's philosophy. Next, the book offers a dialogue with the work itself, which looks at politics, sociology, anthropology, psychology, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, and theodicy. The aim is not to provide an exhaustive analysis, or to comment on each and every verse, but rather to deal only with the most relevant for today's world. Readers will discover how Santob believed knowledge must be dynamic, and tolerance fundamental, fleeing from dogma, since one cannot avoid a significant dose of moral and aesthetic relativism. Subjectivity, within its own codes, must seek a profound ethics, not puritanical but which serves to escape from general ill will. Santob offers a criticism of wealth and power that does not serve the people which appears to be totally relevant today. In spite of the fame he achieved in his own time, Santob has largely remained a vestige of the past. By the end of this book, readers will come to see why this important figure deserves to be more widely studied. Indeed, not only has this medieval Spanish philosopher searched for truth in an unstable, confused world of contradictions, but he has done so in a way that can still help us today.

Reading Corinthians and Philippians within Judaism (Hardcover): Mark D. Nanos Reading Corinthians and Philippians within Judaism (Hardcover)
Mark D. Nanos
R1,128 R951 Discovery Miles 9 510 Save R177 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Jewish Historiography Between Past and Future - 200 Years of Wissenschaft des Judentums (Hardcover): Paul Mendes-Flohr, Rachel... Jewish Historiography Between Past and Future - 200 Years of Wissenschaft des Judentums (Hardcover)
Paul Mendes-Flohr, Rachel Livneh-Freudenthal, Guy Miron
R3,099 Discovery Miles 30 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From its modest beginnings in 1818 Berlin, Wissenschaft des Judentums has burgeoned into a scholarly discipline pursued by a vast cadre of scholars. Now constituting a global community, these scholars continue to draw their inspiration from the determined pioneers of Wissenschaft des Judentums in nineteenth and twentieth Germany. Beyond setting the highest standards of philological and historiographical research, German Wissenschaft des Judentums had a seminal role in creating modern Jewish discourse in which cultural memory supplemented traditional Jewish learning. The secular character of modern Jewish Studies, initially pursued largely in German and subsequently in other vernacular languages (e.g. French, Dutch, Italian, modern Hebrew, Russian), greatly facilitated an exchange with non-Jewish scholars, and thereby encouraging mutual understanding and respect. The present volume is based on papers delivered at a conference, sponsored by the Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem, by scholars from North American, Europe, and Israel. The papers and attendant deliberations explored ramified historical and methodological issues. Taken as a whole, the volume represents a tribute to the two hundred year legacy of Wissenschaft des Judentums and its singular contribution to not only modern Jewish self-understand but also to the unfolding of humanistic cultural discourse.

Judaism (Hardcover): Rabbi I. Epstein Judaism (Hardcover)
Rabbi I. Epstein
R767 Discovery Miles 7 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Contents Include Judaism as a Divine Universal Scheme Jewish Social Ethics and Virtue The Torah The Practice of Judaism The Sabbath and Festivals The Faith of Judaism Sources od Jewish Teaching A People on the MoveKeywords: Faith Of Judaism Social Ethics Sabbath Torah Virtue Festivals Od

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