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Philology and Aesthetics - Figurative Masorah in Western European Manuscripts (Hardcover, New edition): Hanna Liss Philology and Aesthetics - Figurative Masorah in Western European Manuscripts (Hardcover, New edition)
Hanna Liss
R1,604 Discovery Miles 16 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

European Bible manuscripts and their Masorah traditions are still a neglected field of studies and have so far been almost completely disregarded within text-critical research. This volume collects research on the Western European Masorah and addresses the question of how Ashkenazic scholars integrated the Oriental Masoretic tradition into the Western European Rabbinic lore and law. The articles address philological and art-historical topics, and present new methodological tools from the field of digital humanities for the analysis of masora figurata. This volume is intended to initiate a new approach to Masorah research that will shed new light on the European history of the masoretic Bible and its interpretation.

Hinduism in America - An Introduction (Hardcover): Michael J. Altman Hinduism in America - An Introduction (Hardcover)
Michael J. Altman
R4,473 Discovery Miles 44 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This textbook not only provides a historical overview of this religious tradition but also focuses on Hinduism in American society today. Making this a very comprehensive overview of the subject areas. Each chapter includes a helpful pedagogy including a general overview, case studies, suggestions for further reading, questions for discussion, and a glossary. Making this the ideal textbook for students approaching the topic for the first time. The use of case studies and first person narratives provides a much needed 'lived religion' approach to the subject area. Helping students to apply their learning to the world around them.

In Dialogue with the Mahabharata (Paperback): Brian Black In Dialogue with the Mahabharata (Paperback)
Brian Black
R1,397 Discovery Miles 13 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Mahabharata has been explored extensively as a work of mythology, epic poetry, and religious literature, but the text's philosophical dimensions have largely been under-appreciated by Western scholars. This book explores the philosophical implications of the Mahabharata by paying attention to the centrality of dialogue, both as the text's prevailing literary expression and its organising structure. Focusing on five sets of dialogues about controversial moral problems in the central story, this book shows that philosophical deliberation is an integral part of the narrative. Black argues that by paying attention to how characters make arguments and how dialogues unfold, we can better appreciate the Mahabharata's philosophical significance and its potential contribution to debates in comparative philosophy today. This is a fresh perspective on the Mahabharata that will be of great interest to any scholar working in religious studies, Indian/South Asian religions, comparative philosophy, and world literature.

Taixu's 'On the Establishment of the Pure Land in the Human Realm' - A Translation and Study (Hardcover):... Taixu's 'On the Establishment of the Pure Land in the Human Realm' - A Translation and Study (Hardcover)
Charles B. Jones
R3,029 Discovery Miles 30 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this book, Charles B. Jones provides the first English language translation of one of the most important texts of modern Chinese Buddhism: monk-reformer Taixu's 'On the Establishment of the Pure Land in the Human Realm'. The essay, written in 1926 as part of Taixu's attempt to revive Chinese Buddhism with a Humanistic Buddhist approach, incorporates Western thought into a reconstruction of the idea of the 'Pure Land in the human realm'. In his commentary on the text, Jones argues that it has been widely misunderstood and mischaracterized. Jones demonstrates that, besides laying out the very modern idea of the Pure Land in the human realm as a slogan for Buddhist engagement with the problems of the modern world, the essay does not, as commonly assumed, discourage practices leading to rebirth in the Pure Land. He also shows that the 'human realm' can mean anywhere in Buddhist cosmology that humans reside, and that the essay's attempts to reconcile Buddhism with modern science is tentative and incomplete. Jones reveals that the essay promotes visions of both paradises and utopias, and that Taixu supports his ideas with many lengthy sutra quotations. The book concludes with an examination of how Taixu's followers developed the idea of the Pure Land in the human realm into a more coherent and modernized ideal.

Genesis - A Hypertextual Commentary (Hardcover, New edition): Jan Burzynski Genesis - A Hypertextual Commentary (Hardcover, New edition)
Jan Burzynski; Bartosz Adamczewski
R1,672 Discovery Miles 16 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This monograph demonstrates that the book of Genesis is a result of highly creative, hypertextual reworking of the book of Deuteronomy. This detailed reworking consists of around 1,000 strictly sequentially organized conceptual, and at times also linguistic correspondences between Genesis and Deuteronomy. The strictly sequential, hypertextual dependence on Deuteronomy explains numerous surprising features of Genesis. The critical analysis of Genesis as a coherently composed hypertextual work disproves hypotheses of the existence in this writing of Priestly and non-Priestly materials or multiple literary layers.

Time of Grace - Daily Devotional Companion (Hardcover): Mark Jeske Time of Grace - Daily Devotional Companion (Hardcover)
Mark Jeske
R1,052 Discovery Miles 10 520 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is a group of devotions all written by evangelist Mark Jeske.

Pentateuch Illuminated - A Five Part Series Introducing A New American Scripture-How and Why the Real Illuminati(TM) Created... Pentateuch Illuminated - A Five Part Series Introducing A New American Scripture-How and Why the Real Illuminati(TM) Created The Book of Mormon (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Real Illuminati
R778 Discovery Miles 7 780 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Early Jewish Prayers in Greek (Hardcover): Pieter W.Van Der Horst, Judith H Newman Early Jewish Prayers in Greek (Hardcover)
Pieter W.Van Der Horst, Judith H Newman
R5,342 Discovery Miles 53 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

During the past few decades a great amount of scholarly work has been done on the various prayer cultures of antiquity, both Graeco-Roman and Jewish and Christian. In Jewish studies this burgeoning research on ancient prayer has been stimulated particularly by the many new prayer texts found at Qumran, which have shed new light on several long-standing problems. The present volume intends to make a new contribution to the ongoing scholarly debate on ancient Jewish prayer texts by focusing on a limited set of prayer texts, scil. , a small number of those that have been preserved only in Greek. Jewish prayers in Greek tend to be undervalued, which is regrettable because these prayers shed light on sometimes striking aspects of early Jewish spirituality in the centuries around the turn of the era. In this volume twelve such prayers have been collected, translated, and provided with an extensive historical and philological commentary. They have been preserved on papyrus, on stone, and as part of Christian church orders into which some of them have been incorporated in a christianized from. For that reason these prayers are of great interest to scholars of both early Judaism and ancient Christianity.

Hinduism in America - An Introduction (Paperback): Michael J. Altman Hinduism in America - An Introduction (Paperback)
Michael J. Altman
R1,263 Discovery Miles 12 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This textbook not only provides a historical overview of this religious tradition but also focuses on Hinduism in American society today. Making this a very comprehensive overview of the subject areas. Each chapter includes a helpful pedagogy including a general overview, case studies, suggestions for further reading, questions for discussion, and a glossary. Making this the ideal textbook for students approaching the topic for the first time. The use of case studies and first person narratives provides a much needed 'lived religion' approach to the subject area. Helping students to apply their learning to the world around them.

Pillars of Cloud and Fire - The Politics of Exodus in African American Biblical Interpretation (Hardcover): Herbert Robinson... Pillars of Cloud and Fire - The Politics of Exodus in African American Biblical Interpretation (Hardcover)
Herbert Robinson Marbury
R3,114 Discovery Miles 31 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

At the birth of the United States, African Americans were excluded from the newly-formed Republic and its churches, which saw them as savage rather than citizen and as heathen rather than Christian. Denied civil access to the basic rights granted to others, African Americans have developed their own sacred traditions and their own civil discourses. As part of this effort, African American intellectuals offered interpretations of the Bible which were radically different and often fundamentally oppositional to those of many of their white counterparts. By imagining a freedom unconstrained, their work charted a broader and, perhaps, a more genuinely American identity. In Pillars of Cloud and Fire, Herbert Robinson Marbury offers a comprehensive survey of African American biblical interpretation. Each chapter in this compelling volume moves chronologically, from the antebellum period and the Civil War through to the Harlem Renaissance, the civil rights movement, the black power movement, and the Obama era, to offer a historical context for the interpretative activity of that time and to analyze its effect in transforming black social reality. For African American thinkers such as Absalom Jones, David Walker, Zora Neale Hurston, Frances E. W. Harper, Adam Clayton Powell, and Martin Luther King, Jr., the exodus story became the language-world through which freedom both in its sacred resonance and its civil formation found expression. This tradition, Marbury argues, has much to teach us in a world where fundamentalisms have become synonymous with "authentic" religious expression and American identity. For African American biblical interpreters, to be American and to be Christian was always to be open and oriented toward freedom.

Reading the Dead Sea Scrolls - Essays in Method (Hardcover): George John Brooke Reading the Dead Sea Scrolls - Essays in Method (Hardcover)
George John Brooke
R1,432 Discovery Miles 14 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Exodus-Numbers - A Hypertextual Commentary (Hardcover, New edition): Jan Burzynski Exodus-Numbers - A Hypertextual Commentary (Hardcover, New edition)
Jan Burzynski; Bartosz Adamczewski
R1,470 Discovery Miles 14 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This monograph demonstrates that the books of Exodus-Numbers, taken together, are the result of one, highly creative, hypertextual reworking of the book of Deuteronomy. This detailed reworking consists of around 1,200 strictly sequentially organized conceptual, and at times also linguistic correspondences between Exodus-Numbers and Deuteronomy. The strictly sequential, hypertextual dependence on Deuteronomy explains numerous surprising features of Exodus-Numbers. The critical analysis of Exodus-Numbers as a coherently composed hypertextual work disproves hypotheses of the existence in these writings of Priestly and non-Priestly materials or multiple literary layers.

Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra's Commentary on Books 3-5 of Psalms: Chapters 73-150 (Hardcover): Norman Strickman Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra's Commentary on Books 3-5 of Psalms: Chapters 73-150 (Hardcover)
Norman Strickman
R3,515 Discovery Miles 35 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra's commentary is one of the great biblical exegeses produced by medieval Jewry. His commentary accompanies almost every version of the Rabbinic Bible, and his influence on biblical studies continues to this very day. Ibn Ezra sought to provide the literal meaning of the biblical text. However, he did more than that. His commentary is saturated with insights into Hebrew grammar, medieval philosophy, and astrology. Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra's Commentary on Books 3-5 of Psalms: Chapters 73-150 completes the publication of the translation and annotation of Ibn Ezra's commentary to Psalms, making it available to both scholars and general readers.

Five Books of Miriam - A Woman's Commentary on the Torah (Paperback): Five Books of Miriam - A Woman's Commentary on the Torah (Paperback)
R523 R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Save R29 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Weaving together Jewish lore, the voices of Jewish foremothers, Yiddish fable, midrash and stories of her own imagining, Ellen Frankel has created in this book a breathtakingly vivid exploration into what the Torah means to women. Here are Miriam, Esther, Dinah, Lilith and many other women of the Torah in dialogue with Jewish daughters, mothers and grandmothers, past and present. Together these voices examine and debate every aspect of a Jewish woman's life -- work, sex, marriage, her connection to God and her place in the Jewish community and in the world. The Five Books of Miriam makes an invaluable contribution to Torah study and adds rich dimension to the ongoing conversation between Jewish women and Jewish tradition.

Deuteronomy-Judges - A Hypertextual Commentary (Hardcover, New edition): Bartosz Adamczewski Deuteronomy-Judges - A Hypertextual Commentary (Hardcover, New edition)
Bartosz Adamczewski
R1,669 Discovery Miles 16 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This monograph demonstrates that the book of Deuteronomy is a result of highly creative, hypertextual reworking of the book of Ezekiel. Likewise, it shows that the books of Joshua-Judges, taken together, are a result of one, highly creative, hypertextual reworking of the book of Deuteronomy. In both cases, the detailed reworking consists of almost 700 strictly sequentially organized conceptual, and at times also linguistic correspondences. The strictly sequential, hypertextual dependence on the earlier works explains numerous surprising features of Deuteronomy and Joshua-Judges. This critical analysis of Deuteronomy and Joshua-Judges sheds entirely new light on the question of the origin of the Pentateuch and the whole Israelite Heptateuch Genesis-Judges.

Holiness and Transgression - Mothers of the Messiah in the Jewish Myth (Hardcover): Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel Holiness and Transgression - Mothers of the Messiah in the Jewish Myth (Hardcover)
Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel
R2,820 Discovery Miles 28 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume deals with the female dynasty of the House of David and its influence on the Jewish Messianic Myth. It provides a missing link in the chain of research on the topic of messianism and contributes to the understanding of the connection between female transgression and redemption, from the Bible through Rabbinic literature until the Zohar. The discussion of the centrality of the mother image in Judeo-Christian culture and the parallels between the appearance of Mary in the Gospels and the Davidic Mothers in the Hebrew Bible, stresses mutual representations of ""the mother of the messiah"" in Christian and Jewish imaginaire. Through the prism of gender studies and by stressing questions of femininity, motherhood and sexuality, the subject appears in a new light. This research highlights the importance of intertwining Jewish literary study with comparative religion and gender theories, enabling the process of filling in the 'mythic gaps' in classical Jewish sources. The book won the Pines, Lakritz and Warburg awards.

The Upanishads (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover): Anonymous The Upanishads (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover)
Anonymous; Translated by Swami Paramananda
R904 Discovery Miles 9 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Imitation of Christ (Deluxe Library Edition) (Annotated) (Hardcover): Thomas A Kempis The Imitation of Christ (Deluxe Library Edition) (Annotated) (Hardcover)
Thomas A Kempis
R797 Discovery Miles 7 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
His Majesty Requests - The Prophetic Significance of the Jewish Wedding for the Bride of Christ (Hardcover): Rebecca Park Totilo His Majesty Requests - The Prophetic Significance of the Jewish Wedding for the Bride of Christ (Hardcover)
Rebecca Park Totilo; Contributions by Mark Totilo
R598 Discovery Miles 5 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Like flipping pages through a wedding album, the rich imagery in His Majesty Requests paints a vivid portrait of who the Beloved bride truly is and how she makes herself ready for the marriage supper of the Lamb. By matting and framing the story of one father's desire to find a suitable wife for his son in ancient Israel, the mystery of God's love for Jews and non-Jews throughout the ages is revealed. This devotional beautifully illuminates the spiritual significance of the ancient Hebrew wedding customs and how the Messiah fulfilled each one. As family heirlooms, many of these traditions such as bride price and the veil may be recognizable, while others will flash new insight into the teachings and ways of a Jewish Savior. The restoration and brilliance of these lost pictures are sure to fill the believer's heart with a renewed love for their Heavenly Bridegroom.

The Mind of the Qur'an - Chapters in Reflection (Hardcover): Kenneth Cragg The Mind of the Qur'an - Chapters in Reflection (Hardcover)
Kenneth Cragg
R2,975 Discovery Miles 29 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Originally published in 1973, this volume consists of a sequence of essays in religious thinking, responsive to the impact of Quranic style and emphasis. It traces the implications of the Qur'an in the related fields of man and history, evil and forgiveness, unity and worship, wonder and the hallowing of the world. It does so with a critical eye for the classical commentators, three of whom are translated here in their exegesis of three important Surahs. The underlying emphasis of this book is inter-religious converse and responsibility in the contemporary world.

The Theology of Unity (Hardcover): Kenneth Cragg The Theology of Unity (Hardcover)
Kenneth Cragg; Muhammad Abduh; Translated by Ishaq Musa'ad
R2,968 Discovery Miles 29 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Originally published in 1966, this was the first of Muhammad 'Abduh's works to be translated into English. Risalat al Tauhid represents the most popular of his discussion of Islamic thought and belief. 'Abduh is still quoted and revered as the father of 20th Century Muslim thinking in the Arab world and his mind, here accessible, constituted both courageous and strenuous leadership in his day. All the concerns and claims of successive exponents of duty and meaning of the mosque in the modern world may be sensed in these pages. The world and Islam have moved on since 'Abduh's lifetime, but he remains a source for the historian of contemporary movements and a valuable index to the self-awareness of Arab Islam.

The Literary Avatars of Christian Sacramentality, Theology and Practical Life in Recent Modernity (Hardcover, New edition):... The Literary Avatars of Christian Sacramentality, Theology and Practical Life in Recent Modernity (Hardcover, New edition)
Ioana Zirra, Madeleine Potter
R1,294 Discovery Miles 12 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Twelve Anglicists (from France, America, Poland, and Romania) who met in Bucharest to debate Religion and Spirituality in Literature and the Arts at the ACED Conference in June 2015 join their voices in demonstrating the vitally spiritual power of Christianity in the recently modern world (in twentieth and twenty-first century literature and society). Poetry (by Eliot, Yeats, Heaney, David Jones, Hill, G.M. Brown) and fiction (Henry James, Lodge, Evelyn Waugh, Flannery O'Connor, Rose Macaulay and Ron Hansen), interpreted with (Thomist and more recent) theology (J.H. Newman's, Paul Tillich's, Hans Urs von Balthasar's, De Certeau's) and philosophy (from Plato to Gadamer) in mind, give heartening suggestions for transcending, along Catholic, Anglican, and Orthodox lines, the modern secular ethos.

The Buddha, The Prophet and the Christ (Hardcover): F.H. Hilliard The Buddha, The Prophet and the Christ (Hardcover)
F.H. Hilliard
R2,729 Discovery Miles 27 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Originally published in 1956, this book brings together from the canonical writings of Buddhism, Islam and Christianity the most important of the passages in which the view of the Founder is reflected. It aims to let each of the sacred traditions tell its own story and only such comments have been added as seem necessary to bring out the full significance of the passage quoted. The final chapter summarizes some of the difficult questions which arise from a comparison of the extracts from the 3 traditions.

The Thought of the Prophets (Hardcover): Israel I. Mattuck The Thought of the Prophets (Hardcover)
Israel I. Mattuck
R2,730 Discovery Miles 27 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Originally published in 1953, The Hebrew Prophets' conception of the meaning and purpose of human history has considerable significance for a religious view of the world situation in the middle of the 20th Century. This book discusses the nature of the Hebrew prophets and the grounds for their claim to inspiration. He then examines the fundamental and universal religious ideas underlying their pronouncements. Particular attention is paid to their views on the basis of human morals, the character of the good society, the duties of government and the relation between religion and politics. Other chapters deal with their ideas of true religion and of the relation of God to human life.

God and Man - In the Old Testament (Hardcover): Leon Roth God and Man - In the Old Testament (Hardcover)
Leon Roth
R2,714 Discovery Miles 27 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Originally published in 1955, and containing some 500 passages, this Biblical anthology brings together, in their original wording, the highest expressions of the Biblical view of life. The anthology is non-historical and non-doctrinal. It starts with the confrontations of man with God as seen in the 'calls' of the prophets, and proceeds to the ways of life demanded of man and the duties accompanying the privilege of vocation. It ends with the visions of the ideal society which in times of trial the author believes have sustained the mind. When this was first published, the anthology used often forgotten texts, and in so doing stimulated much attention to these enduring religious documents.

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