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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian sacred works & liturgy > Sacred texts

Deconstructing the Talmud - The Absolute Book (Hardcover): Federico Dal Bo Deconstructing the Talmud - The Absolute Book (Hardcover)
Federico Dal Bo
R3,911 Discovery Miles 39 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This monograph uses deconstruction-a philosophical movement originated by Jacques Derrida-to read the most authoritative book in Judaism: the Talmud. Examining deconstruction in comparison with Kant's and Hegel's philosophies, the volume argues that the movement opens an innovative debate on Jewish Law. First, the monograph interprets deconstruction within the major streams of continental philosophy; then, it criticizes many aspects of Foucault's and Agamben's philosophy, rejecting their notion of law. On these premises, the research delivers a close examination of many fundamental aspects of the Talmud. Consequently, it provides a short history of Rabbinic literature, a history of the dissemination of the Talmud from Babylon to Northern France, and an analysis of Talmudic vocabulary from a deconstructive perspective. Each key concept of the Talmud is analysed according to the deconstructive dialectics between orality and writing. Closing with a comparison between the Talmud and Derrida's most enigmatic text, Glas, the study argues that deconstruction dismantles the traditional notion of the Talmud to outline a new approach to Jewish Law. Reading the Talmud through deconstruction, this new angle makes the volume an essential resource for students and scholars interested in Jewish studies, continental philosophy, and the Middle East.

Caitanya Vaisnavas in Bengal - Social Impact and Historical Implications (Hardcover): Rembert Lutjeharms Caitanya Vaisnavas in Bengal - Social Impact and Historical Implications (Hardcover)
Rembert Lutjeharms; Joseph T. O'Connell
R3,917 Discovery Miles 39 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Within the broad Hindu religious tradition, there have been for millennia many subtraditions generically called Vaisnava, who insist that the most appropriate mode of religious faith and experience is bhakti, or devotion, to the supreme personal deity, Visnu. Caitanya Vaisnavas are a community of Vaisnava devotees who coalesced around Krsna Caitanya (1486-1533), who taught devotion to the name and form of Krsna, especially in conjunction with his divine consort Radha and who also came to be looked upon by many as Krsna himself who had graciously chosen to be born in Bengal to exemplify the ideal mode of loving devotion (prema-bhakti). This book focusses on the relationship between the 'transcendent' intentionality of religious faith of human beings and their 'mundane' socio-cultural ways of living, through a detailed study of the social implications of the Caitanya Vaisnava devotional Hindu tradition in pre-colonial and colonial Bengal. Structured in two parts, the first analyzes the articulation of Krsna-bhakti within the broad Hindu sector of Bengali society. The second section examines Hindu-Muslim relationships in Bengal from the particular vantage point of the Caitanya Vaisnava tradition, and in which the subtle influence of Krsna-bhakti, it is argued, may be detected. In both sections, the bulk of attention is given to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when Bengal was under independent Sultanate or emergent Mughal rule and thus free of the impact of British and European colonial influence. Arguing that the Caitanya Vaisnava devotion contributed to the softening of the potentially alienating socio-cultural divisions of class, caste, sect and religio-political community in Bengal, this book will be of interest to academics in the field of Asian Religion and Hinduism, in particular devotional Hinduism, both premodern and modern, as well as to scholars and students of South Asian social history, Hindu-Muslim relations, and Bengali religious culture.

Daughters of the Buddha - Teachings by Ancient Indian Women (Hardcover): Bhikkhu Analayo Daughters of the Buddha - Teachings by Ancient Indian Women (Hardcover)
Bhikkhu Analayo; Foreword by Bhikkhuni Dhammananda
R811 R522 Discovery Miles 5 220 Save R289 (36%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Samkara's Advaita Vedanta - A Way of Teaching (Paperback): Jacqueline G. Suthren Hirst Samkara's Advaita Vedanta - A Way of Teaching (Paperback)
Jacqueline G. Suthren Hirst
R1,623 Discovery Miles 16 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Samkara (c.700 CE) has been regarded by many as the most authoritative Hindu thinker of all time. A great Indian Vedantin brahmin, Samkara was primarily a commentator on the sacred texts of the Vedas and a teacher in the Advaitin teaching line. This book serves as an introduction to Samkara's thought which takes this as a central theme. The author develops an innovative approach based on Samkara's ways of interpreting sacred texts and creatively examines the profound interrelationship between sacred text, content and method in Samkara's thought. The main focus of the book is on Samkara's teaching method. This method is, for Samkara, based on the Upanishads' own; it is to be employed by Advaitin teachers to draw pupils skilfully towards that realisation which is beyond all words. Consequently, this book will be of interest not only to students and scholars of Indian philosophy, but to all those interested in the relation between language and that which is held to transcend it.

The Family Romance of Martyrdom in Second Maccabees (Paperback): Naomi Janowitz The Family Romance of Martyrdom in Second Maccabees (Paperback)
Naomi Janowitz
R662 Discovery Miles 6 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Centering on the first extant martyr story (2 Maccabees 7), this study explores the "autonomous value" of martyrdom. The story of a mother and her seven sons who die under the torture of the Greek king Antiochus displaces the long-problematic Temple sacrificial cult with new cultic practices, and presents a new family romance that encodes unconscious fantasies of child-bearing fathers and eternal mergers with mothers. This study places the martyr story in the historical context of the Hasmonean struggle for legitimacy in the face of Jewish civil wars, and uses psychoanalytic theories to analyze the unconscious meaning of the martyr-family story.

Interpretations of the Bhagavad-Gita and Images of the Hindu Tradition - The Song of the Lord (Hardcover, annotated edition):... Interpretations of the Bhagavad-Gita and Images of the Hindu Tradition - The Song of the Lord (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Catherine A Robinson
R3,914 Discovery Miles 39 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book investigates the relationship between the various interpretations of the "Bhagavad-Gita" and the Hindu tradition.
The Bhagavad-Gita is probably the most popular - and certainly the most frequently quoted and widely studied - work of the Hindu scriptures. This book investigates the relationship between the various interpretations of the Bhagavad-Gita and the Hindu tradition.
Taking into account a range of influential Indian and western thinkers to illustrate trends in writing about the Bhagavad-Gita including Western academic; Indian activist; Christian theological; Hindu Universalist; perennialist mystical and contemporary experiential accounts. Examining the ideas of such influential figures as F Max Muller, M K Ghandi, Bede Griffiths, Swami Vivekananda, Aldous Huxley and Swami Bhakivedanta, this book demonstrates the inextricable link between different interpretations of the Bhagavad-Gita and images of the Hindu tradition.
This accessible book aptly demonstrates the relevance of the Bhagavad-Gita for an understanding of Hinduism as a modern phenomenon.

Teachings of the Sikh Gurus - Selections from the Sikh Scriptures (Hardcover): Christopher Shackle, Arvind Mandair Teachings of the Sikh Gurus - Selections from the Sikh Scriptures (Hardcover)
Christopher Shackle, Arvind Mandair
R4,063 Discovery Miles 40 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Recognized masterpieces of Indian literature, the Guru Granth Sahib and the Dasam Granth are fundamental to the Sikh religion, not only in the physical layout of temples and in ceremonies of worship, but as infallible reference texts offering counsel and instruction.

Teachings of the Sikh Gurus presents a brand new selection of key passages from these sacred scriptures, translated into modern English by leading experts, Christopher Shackle and Arvind-pal Singh Mandair. Including six longer compositions and many shorter hymns thematically organised by topics such as Time and Impermanence, Self and Mind, Authority, and Ethics, the book 's accessible and carefully chosen extracts distil the essence of Sikhism 's remarkable textual and intellectual legacy, depicting how its message of universal tolerance suits the contemporary world. The detailed introduction and notes to the translations aid readers comprehension of the hymns form and content, as well as providing some historical context, making it an ideal introduction to Sikh literature.

Bhagavad-gita As It Is [Marathi language] (Hardcover): A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhup ada Bhagavad-gita As It Is [Marathi language] (Hardcover)
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhup ada
R454 Discovery Miles 4 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Torah - The Five Books of Moses, the New Translation of the Holy Scriptures According to the Traditional Hebrew Text... The Torah - The Five Books of Moses, the New Translation of the Holy Scriptures According to the Traditional Hebrew Text (Hardcover, 3)
Jewish Publication Society Inc
R860 R714 Discovery Miles 7 140 Save R146 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Read our customer guide The Torah is the essence of Jewish tradition; it inspires each successive generation. The current JPS translation, based on classical and modern sources, is acclaimed for its fidelity to the ancient Hebrew.

The Return of the Absent Father - A New Reading of a Chain of Stories from the Babylonian Talmud (Hardcover): Haim Weiss, Shira... The Return of the Absent Father - A New Reading of a Chain of Stories from the Babylonian Talmud (Hardcover)
Haim Weiss, Shira Stav; Translated by Batya Stein
R1,195 Discovery Miles 11 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Return of the Absent Father offers a new reading of a chain of seven stories from tractate Ketubot in the Babylonian Talmud, in which sages abandon their homes, wives, and families and go away to the study house for long periods. Earlier interpretations have emphasized the tension between conjugal and scholarly desire as the key driving force in these stories. Haim Weiss and Shira Stav here reveal an additional layer of meaning to the father figure's role within the family structure. By shifting the spotlight from the couple to the drama of the father's relationship with his sons and daughters, they present a more complex tension between mundane domesticity and the sphere of spiritual learning represented by the study house. This coauthored book presents a dialogic encounter between Weiss, a scholar of rabbinic literature, and Stav, a scholar of modern Hebrew literary studies. Working together, they have produced a book resonant in its melding of the scholarly norms of rabbinics with a literary interpretation based in feminist and psychoanalytic theory.

The Vivekacudamani of Sankaracarya Bhagavatpada - An Introduction and Translation (Hardcover, New Ed): John Grimes The Vivekacudamani of Sankaracarya Bhagavatpada - An Introduction and Translation (Hardcover, New Ed)
John Grimes
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Advaita Vedanta is one of the most important and widely studied schools of thought in Hindu religion and the Vivekacudamani is one of the most important texts in the Advaita tradition and the most popular philosophical work ascribed to the great Indian philosopher, Sankara. Sankara (c.650-700) is considered to be a giant among giants and probably the most venerated philosopher in India's long history. The Vivekacudamani is in the form of a dialogue between a preceptor (guru) and a pupil (sisya) expounding the quintessence of Advaita in which the pupil humbly approaches the preceptor and, having served the teacher selflessly, implores to be rescued from worldly existence (samsara). The guru promises to teach the way to liberation (moksa) which culminates in the ecstatic experience of one's own Self. This book presents an accessible translation of the entire text and also includes Upanisadic cross-referencing to most of its 580 verses, extensive notes, a lengthy Introduction, list of variant readings, an extensive bibliography, and an index to the verses. All those interested in Indian religion and philosophy, Hindu studies, or Sanskrit, will find this readable English translation of an Indian philosophical classic invaluable.

Revival: Aspects of Judaism (1928) - Selected Essays (Hardcover): Rabbi Salis Daiches Revival: Aspects of Judaism (1928) - Selected Essays (Hardcover)
Rabbi Salis Daiches
R5,387 Discovery Miles 53 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Addressed to Jews and non-Jews alike, though aware that these two reader groups were likelyn to approach the book with very different presuppositions, Daiches sets out to define Judaism in relation to philosophy, to explain Kant's philosophy through the superiority of halakhah, defend a biblically based Jewish interpretation of history, and champion Judaism as a religion of freedom guaranteed by halakhah (Jewish law).

Bhagavad Gita - Iskcon (Bengali, Paperback): A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhup ada Bhagavad Gita - Iskcon (Bengali, Paperback)
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhup ada
R541 Discovery Miles 5 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Moses in the Qur'an and Islamic Exegesis (Hardcover): Brannon M. Wheeler Moses in the Qur'an and Islamic Exegesis (Hardcover)
Brannon M. Wheeler
R3,911 Discovery Miles 39 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Relating the Muslim understanding of Moses in the Qur'an to the Epic of Gilgamesh, Alexander Romances, Aramaic Targums, Rabbinic Bible exegesis, and folklore from the ancient and medieval Mediterranean, this book shows how Muslim scholars authorize and identify themselves through allusions to the Bible and Jewish tradition. Exegesis of Qur'an 18:60-82 shows how Muslim exegetes engage Biblical theology through interpretation of the ancient Israelites, their prophets, and their Torah. This Muslim use of a scripture shared with Jews and Christians suggests fresh perspectives for the history of religions, Biblical studies, cultural studies, and Jewish-Arabic studies.

The Maha-Vairocana-Abhisambodhi Tantra - With Buddhaguhya's Commentary (Hardcover): Stephen Hodge The Maha-Vairocana-Abhisambodhi Tantra - With Buddhaguhya's Commentary (Hardcover)
Stephen Hodge
R4,261 Discovery Miles 42 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


The first complete translation into English of this Tibetan text, together with the informative commentary by the 8th century master Buddhaguhya. This text is of seminal importance for the history of Buddhist Tantra, especially as very little has been published concerning the origins of Tantra in India.

The Zohar in Moslem and Christian Spain (Paperback): Ariel Bension The Zohar in Moslem and Christian Spain (Paperback)
Ariel Bension
R1,151 Discovery Miles 11 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'The Zohar' was compiled and composed in Spain in the thirteenth century, and exerted a powerful influence on Jewish life in medieval ghettoes. In this book, first published in 1932, Dr Bension was the first scholar to deal with the influence on Jewish mysticism of certain characteristics which underlie so much of the literature produced in Spain both by Christians and Muslims.

Biblical Prophets in the Qur'an and Muslim Literature (Hardcover): Roberto Tottoli Biblical Prophets in the Qur'an and Muslim Literature (Hardcover)
Roberto Tottoli
R4,209 Discovery Miles 42 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Part 1 is a comprehensive study of the Qur'anic data about each prophet, with a full portrait of every figure and dealing also with all the major scholarly literature on the subject and with the Qur'anic concept of prophetology. Part 2 is a history and study of the general Muslim literature dealing with the prophets.

The Fo-Sho-Hing-Tsan-King (Hardcover): Samuel Beal The Fo-Sho-Hing-Tsan-King (Hardcover)
Samuel Beal
R2,611 Discovery Miles 26 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is a subset of F. Max Mullers great collection The Sacred Books of the East which includes translations of all the most important works of the seven non-Christian religions which have exercised a profound influence on the civilizations of the continent of Asia. The works have been translated by leading authorities in their field.

The Institutes of Vishnu (Hardcover): Julius Jolly The Institutes of Vishnu (Hardcover)
Julius Jolly
R2,542 Discovery Miles 25 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is a subset of F. Max Mullers great collection The Sacred Books of the East which includes translations of all the most important works of the seven non-Christian religions which have exercised a profound influence on the civilizations of the continent of Asia. The works have been translated by leading authorities in their field.

The Bhagavadgita with the Sanatsujatiya and the Anugita (Hardcover): F. Max Muller The Bhagavadgita with the Sanatsujatiya and the Anugita (Hardcover)
F. Max Muller
R2,605 Discovery Miles 26 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is a subset of the Sacred Books of the East Series which includes translations of all the most important works of the seven non-Christian religions which have exercised a profound influence on the civilizations of the continent of Asia. The works have been translated by leading authorities in their field.

Israel and the Dead Sea Scrolls - With a Foreword by Leon Edel and A New Introduction by Raphael Israeli (Hardcover): Edmund... Israel and the Dead Sea Scrolls - With a Foreword by Leon Edel and A New Introduction by Raphael Israeli (Hardcover)
Edmund Wilson
R4,387 Discovery Miles 43 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of 972 documents discovered between 1946 and 1956, are of immeasurable religious and historical significance. They include the oldest known surviving copies of Biblical-era documents. The manuscripts shed considerable light on forms of Judaism never known before. These forms contain hints of Christianity, or as put elsewhere, it was the Judaism amid which Christ and his first followers lived, thought, and wrote. Edmund Wilson's book is a record of this great scholarly find.Wilson was a prolific literary critic and social commentator, not an academic, and therefore Israel and the Dead Sea Scrolls reads like a journalist's reportage. This unique personal account weaves together threads of folklore, history, and intrigue. As Leon Edel writes in his foreword, 'Reading him, it is not difficult to imagine the ardor with which Edmund Wilson pursued his complex subject; it was the kind of subject he had always liked best, involving as it did history, politics, ancient lore, and all his faculties for imaginative reconstruction and historical analysis. . . . No book quite like this has been written in our century.'The scrolls of the Essenes, and the history of this Jewish sect's possible antecedence to Christianity, led the author to Israel and to the revelations contained in the scrolls. This book contains his resulting account of the scrolls' history. Originally published in 1978, this edition of Wilson's classic is made contemporary with a new introduction by Raphael Israeli, which illustrates the ongoing academic controversy surrounding the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Re-figuring the Ramayana as Theology - A History of Reception in Premodern India (Paperback): Ajay K. Rao Re-figuring the Ramayana as Theology - A History of Reception in Premodern India (Paperback)
Ajay K. Rao
R1,345 Discovery Miles 13 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Ramayana of Valmiki is considered by many contemporary Hindus to be a foundational religious text. But this understanding is in part the result of a transformation of the epic's receptive history, a hermeneutic project which challenged one characterization of the genre of the text, as a work of literary culture, and replaced it with another, as a work of remembered tradition. This book examines Ramayana commentaries, poetic retellings, and praise-poems produced by intellectuals within the Srivaisnava order of South India from 1250 to 1600 and shows how these intellectuals reconceptualized Rama's story through the lens of their devotional metaphysics. Srivaisnavas applied innovative interpretive techniques to the Ramayana, including allegorical reading, slesa reading (reading a verse as a double entendre), and the application of vernacular performance techniques such as word play, improvisation, repetition, and novel forms of citation. The book is of interest not only to Ramayana specialists but also to those engaged with Indian intellectual history, literary studies, and the history of religions.

The Minor Law Books (Hardcover): F. Max Muller The Minor Law Books (Hardcover)
F. Max Muller
R3,638 Discovery Miles 36 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is a subset of the Sacred Books of the East Series which includes translations of all the most important works of the seven non-Christian religions which have exercised a profound influence on the civilizations of the continent of Asia. The works have been translated by leading authorities in their field.

Buddhist Suttas (Hardcover): F. Max Muller Buddhist Suttas (Hardcover)
F. Max Muller
R1,181 Discovery Miles 11 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is a subset of F. Max Mullers great collection The Sacred Books of the East which includes translations of all the most important works of the seven non-Christian religions which have exercised a profound influence on the civilizations of the continent of Asia. The works have been translated by leading authorities in their field.

The Saddharma-Pundaraka or The Lotus of the True Law (Hardcover): H. Kern The Saddharma-Pundaraka or The Lotus of the True Law (Hardcover)
H. Kern
R2,609 Discovery Miles 26 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is a subset of the Sacred Books of the East Series which includes translations of all the most important works of the seven non-Christian religions which have exercised a profound influence on the civilizations of the continent of Asia. The works have been translated by leading authorities in their field.

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