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Lotus Sutra - Saddharma-Pundarika - The Lotus of the True Law - The Ancient Mahayana Buddhist Text, Complete (Hardcover): H.... Lotus Sutra - Saddharma-Pundarika - The Lotus of the True Law - The Ancient Mahayana Buddhist Text, Complete (Hardcover)
H. Kern
R673 Discovery Miles 6 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Koran for Christians - Understanding Islam and Muslims (Hardcover): Robert Wilson The Koran for Christians - Understanding Islam and Muslims (Hardcover)
Robert Wilson
R757 Discovery Miles 7 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Book of Enoch - A Work of Visionary Revelation and Prophecy, Revealing Divine Secrets and Fantastic Information about... The Book of Enoch - A Work of Visionary Revelation and Prophecy, Revealing Divine Secrets and Fantastic Information about Creation, Salvation, Heaven and Hell (Hardcover)
R. H. Charles; Foreword by Paul Tice
R1,048 Discovery Miles 10 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Hellenism, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity - Transmission and Transformation of Ideas (Hardcover): Radka Fialova, Jiri... Hellenism, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity - Transmission and Transformation of Ideas (Hardcover)
Radka Fialova, Jiri Hoblik, Petr Kitzler
R3,565 Discovery Miles 35 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Papers collected in this volume try to illuminate various aspects of philosophical theology dealt with by different Jewish and early Christian authors and texts (e.g. the Acts of the Apostles, Philo, Origen, Gregory of Nazianzus), rooted in and influenced by the Hellenistic religious, cultural, and philosophical context, and they also focus on the literary and cultural traditions of Hellenized Judaism and its reception (e.g. Sibylline Oracles, Prayer of Manasseh), including material culture ("Elephant Mosaic Panel" from Huqoq synagogue). By studying the Hellenistic influences on early Christianity, both in response to and in reaction against early Hellenized Judaism, the volume intends not only to better understand Christianity, as a religious and historical phenomenon with a profound impact on the development of European civilization, but also to better comprehend Hellenism and its consequences which have often been relegated to the realm of political history.

Rewriting and Interpreting the Hebrew Bible - The Biblical Patriarchs in the Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Hardcover): Devorah... Rewriting and Interpreting the Hebrew Bible - The Biblical Patriarchs in the Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Hardcover)
Devorah Dimant, Reinhard G Kratz
R4,603 Discovery Miles 46 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The present volume is one of the first to concentrate on a specific theme of biblical interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls, namely the book of Genesis. In particular the volume is concerned with the links displayed by the Qumranic biblical interpetation to the inner-biblical interpretation and the final shaping of the Hebrew scriptures. Moshe Bar-Asher studies cases of such inner biblical interpretative comments; Michael Segal deals with the Garden of Eden story in the scrolls and other contemporary Jewish sources; Reinhard Kratz analizes the story of the Flood as preamble for the lives of the Patriarchs in the Hebrew Bible; Devorah Dimant examines this theme in the Qumran scrolls; Roman Viehlhauer explores the story of Sodom and Gomorrah; George Brooke and Atar Livneh discuss aspects of Jacob's career; Harald Samuel review the career of Levi; Liora Goldman examines the Aramaic work the Visions of Amram; Lawrence Schiffman and Aharon Shemesh discuss halakhic aspects of stories about the Patriarchs; Moshe Bernstein provides an overview of the references to the Patriarchs in the Qumran scrolls.

The Refutation of the Self in Indian Buddhism - Candrakirti on the Selflessness of Persons (Paperback): James Duerlinger The Refutation of the Self in Indian Buddhism - Candrakirti on the Selflessness of Persons (Paperback)
James Duerlinger
R1,678 Discovery Miles 16 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Since the Buddha did not fully explain the theory of persons that underlies his teaching, in later centuries a number of different interpretations were developed. This book presents the interpretation by the celebrated Indian Buddhist philosopher, Candrakirti (ca. 570-650 C.E.). Candrakirti's fullest statement of the theory is included in his Autocommentary on the Introduction to the Middle Way (Madhyamakavatarabhasya), which is, along with his Introduction to the Middle Way (Madhyamakavatara ), among the central treatises that present the Prasavgika account of the Madhyamaka (Middle Way) philosophy. In this book, Candrakirti's most complete statement of his theory of persons is translated and provided with an introduction and commentary that present a careful philosophical analysis of Candrakirti's account of the selflessness of persons. This analysis is both philologically precise and analytically sophisticated. The book is of interest to scholars of Buddhism generally and especially to scholars of Indian Buddhist philosophy.

Changes in Scripture - Rewriting and Interpreting Authoritative Traditions in the Second Temple Period (Hardcover): Hanne von... Changes in Scripture - Rewriting and Interpreting Authoritative Traditions in the Second Temple Period (Hardcover)
Hanne von Weissenberg, Juha Pakkala, Marko Marttila
R6,094 Discovery Miles 60 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The articles in this volume investigate changes in texts that became to be regarded as holy and unchangeable in Judaism and Christianity. The volume seeks to draw attention to the "empirical" evidence from Qumran, the Septuagint as well as from passages in the Hebrew Scriptures that have been shaped by the use of other texts. The contributions are divided into three main sections: The first section deals with methodological questions concerning textual changes. The second section consists of concrete examples from the Hebrew Bible, Qumran and Septuagint on how the texts were changed, corrected, edited and interpreted. The contributions of the third section will investigate the general influence and impact of Deuteronomistic ideology and phraseology on later texts.

The Pluralistic Halakhah - Legal Innovations in the Late Second Commonwealth and Rabbinic Periods (Hardcover, Reprint 2010):... The Pluralistic Halakhah - Legal Innovations in the Late Second Commonwealth and Rabbinic Periods (Hardcover, Reprint 2010)
Paul Heger
R5,374 R4,804 Discovery Miles 48 040 Save R570 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This study examines by a meticulous analysis of abundant rabbinic citations the pluralism of the Halakhah in the pre-70 period which stands in contrast to the fixed Halakhah of later periods. The Temple's destruction provoked, for political motives, the initiation of this significant shift, which protracted itself, in developmental stages, for a longer period. The transition from the Tannaitic to the Amoraic era was a consequential turning point on the extended path from flexibility to rigidity in Jewish law.

Midrash Sinim - Hasidic Legend and Commentary on the Torah (Hardcover): Yong Zhao Midrash Sinim - Hasidic Legend and Commentary on the Torah (Hardcover)
Yong Zhao
R592 R541 Discovery Miles 5 410 Save R51 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Koren Talmud Bavli Noe Edition - Volume 31: Makkot Shevuot, Hebrew/English, B&w Edition (Hardcover): Adin Steinsaltz Koren Talmud Bavli Noe Edition - Volume 31: Makkot Shevuot, Hebrew/English, B&w Edition (Hardcover)
Adin Steinsaltz
R990 Discovery Miles 9 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Holy Koran [Qur'an] (Hardcover): M.H. Shakir The Holy Koran [Qur'an] (Hardcover)
M.H. Shakir
R1,257 R1,080 Discovery Miles 10 800 Save R177 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The holy book of Islam, the Koran as a book is the result of: 1. revelations given to Muhammad in the period 610- 632 (Muhammad's death) 2. writing down of these revelations by people around Muhammad in a period probably starting some years after 610, and ending a couple of years after 632 3. compiling of these writings stretching from mid-630s and perhaps until mid-650s 4. vowelling and dotting of the text (ancient Arabic was written without dots, leaving some letters look identical, and without vowels, which can make two different words look identical). Old Koran Essential to the reading of the Koran are the interpretations, which are still conducted, but which were more normal and accepted in the first centuries of Islam. As the Koran has a structure and a language, as well as allusions, which often are difficult for the normal Muslim to understand, a whole science were built around the comprehension of the Koran. The early Muslims studied history, language and nature science in an effort of understanding the Koran better. The product is surprisingly well accepted by the whole Muslim society, and no Muslim child or adult of today, studying the Koran, does this without help from the interpretations built on the early science of the Koran.

A Time to Tell - Narrative Strategies in Ecclesiastes (Hardcover): Eric S. Christianson A Time to Tell - Narrative Strategies in Ecclesiastes (Hardcover)
Eric S. Christianson
R5,274 Discovery Miles 52 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Christianson uses a variety of methods from art criticism to Todorov''s actantial model to sketch a compr ehensive picture of some hitherto neglected narrative elemen ts in Qoheleth''s text. '

Enoch and the Synoptic Gospels - Reminiscences, Allusions, Intertextuality (Hardcover): Loren T Stuckenbruck, Gabriele... Enoch and the Synoptic Gospels - Reminiscences, Allusions, Intertextuality (Hardcover)
Loren T Stuckenbruck, Gabriele Boccaccini
R1,988 Discovery Miles 19 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Family and Kinship in the Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature (Hardcover): Angelo Passaro Family and Kinship in the Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature (Hardcover)
Angelo Passaro
R5,012 Discovery Miles 50 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume discusses various conceptions of family and kinship in the context of deuterocanonical literature. After analyzing the topic family in a narrow sense of the term, the articles investigate general ideas of morality, respect, or love and take a critical look at representations of gender, power, and social norms in Judaism and Early Christianity.

The Book of Ben Sira in Modern Research - Proceedings of the First International Ben Sira Conference, 28-31 July 1996... The Book of Ben Sira in Modern Research - Proceedings of the First International Ben Sira Conference, 28-31 July 1996 Soesterberg, Netherlands (Hardcover, Reprint 2013)
Pancratius C. Beentjes
R4,474 Discovery Miles 44 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.

Lifting the Veil - 2 Corinthians 3:7-18 in Light of Jewish Homiletic and Commentary Traditions (Hardcover, Digital original):... Lifting the Veil - 2 Corinthians 3:7-18 in Light of Jewish Homiletic and Commentary Traditions (Hardcover, Digital original)
Michael Cover
R3,871 Discovery Miles 38 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What accounts for the seemingly atypical pattern of scriptural exegesis that Paul uses to interpret Exodus 34 in 2 Cor 3:7-18? While previous scholars have approached this question from a variety of angles, in this monograph, Michael Cover grapples particularly with the evidence of contemporaneous Jewish and Greco-Roman commentary traditions. Through comparison with Philo of Alexandria's Allegorical Commentary, the Pseudo-Philonic homilies De Jona and De Sampsone, the Anonymous Theaetetus Commentary, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Seneca's Epistulae morales, and other New Testament texts, Paul's interpretation of Exodus emerges as part of a wider commentary practice that Cover terms "secondary-level exegesis." This study also provides new analysis of the way ancient authors, including Paul, interwove commentary forms and epistolary rhetoric and offers a reconstruction of the context of Paul's conflict with rival apostles in Corinth. At root was the legacy of Moses and of the Pentateuch itself, how the scriptures ought to be read, and how Platonizing theological and anthropological traditions might be interwoven with Paul's messianic gospel.

Learning Bhagavad-Gita Step by Step (Hardcover): Balaram Chandra Das Learning Bhagavad-Gita Step by Step (Hardcover)
Balaram Chandra Das
R1,046 Discovery Miles 10 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Religion of the Patriarchs (Hardcover): Augustine Pagolu The Religion of the Patriarchs (Hardcover)
Augustine Pagolu
R6,642 Discovery Miles 66 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Patriarchal religion was distinct from both ancient Near Eastern and Israelite religions, and compatible only with the patriarchal lifestyle portrayed in Genesis. Since Wellhausen, the study of patriarchal religion has been chiefly confined either to the divine names or to the social and legal practices attested in Genesis and has neglected the patriarchal cultic practices-altars, pillars, tithes, vows and purifications-frequently attested there. In this study, Pagolu investigates such aspects in the light of second-millennium ancient Near Eastern and Israelite parallels, concluding that the patriarchal practices bore no comparison to those of the ancient Near East or of Israel, in that the patriarchs themselves offered sacrifices, conducted prayer, raised pillars and offered worship, all without the aid of an established cult. Thus patriarchal religion was distinct both from ancient Near Eastern religions and from the religion of Israel itself. It is peculiar to the world of Genesis.

The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 5 - Epistles - First Series, Interviews, Notes from Lectures and Discourses,... The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 5 - Epistles - First Series, Interviews, Notes from Lectures and Discourses, Questions and Answers, Conversations and Dialogues (Recorded by Disciples - Translated), Sayings and Utterances, Writings: Prose and Poems - Original and Translated (Hardcover)
Swami Vivekananda
R867 Discovery Miles 8 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Talmud of Jerusalem (Hardcover, Digital Original Ed.): Dagobert D. Runes The Talmud of Jerusalem (Hardcover, Digital Original Ed.)
Dagobert D. Runes
R643 R576 Discovery Miles 5 760 Save R67 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ben-Gurion Looks at the Bible (Hardcover): David Ben-Gurion Ben-Gurion Looks at the Bible (Hardcover)
David Ben-Gurion; Translated by Jonathan Kolatch
R948 Discovery Miles 9 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The addresses presented in this volume were delivered by the first Prime Minister of the State of Israel to a select group of students who comprised the "Prime Minister's Bible Study Circle." The issues with which Mr. Ben-Gurion wrestles, and the resolutions he proposes, will be of interest to all those interested in the sacred text, regardless of religion. Originally published in Hebrew in 1969.

Archko Volume - Or the Archaeological Writings of the Sanhedrim and Talmuds of the Jews (Intra Secus, Ancient Jewish History)... Archko Volume - Or the Archaeological Writings of the Sanhedrim and Talmuds of the Jews (Intra Secus, Ancient Jewish History) (Hardcover)
W. D. Mahan
R650 Discovery Miles 6 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Exploring the Yogasutra - Philosophy and Translation (Hardcover, Annotated edition): Daniel Raveh Exploring the Yogasutra - Philosophy and Translation (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Daniel Raveh
R5,262 Discovery Miles 52 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Patajali's Yogasutra is an ancient canonic Indian text composed in Sanskrit in the 3rd or 4th century. Belonging to a very different cultural milieu, this multi-layered text is philosophical, psychological and practical in nature. Offering a philosophical reading of Pata jali's Yogasutra, this book discusses themes such as freedom, self-identity, time and transcendence, and translation between languages, cultures and eras. Drawing substantially upon contemporary Indian materials, it discusses for the first time classical yoga as reflected upon by Daya Krishna (1924-2007) with constant reference to Krishna Chandra Bhattacharyya's (1875-1949) studies in yoga philosophy. The genuine attempt on behalf of these two original thinkers to engage philosophically with Patajala-yoga sets the tone of the textual exploration provided here. This book features a new annotated translation of the Yogasutra, and the author provides a useful background to the extensive Samkhya terminology employed by Patajali. Daniel Raveh also offers a close reflection of the very act of translation, and the book concludes with suggestions for further reading and a glossary of central notions.

Koren Tanakh Hama'alot Edition, Purple (Paperback): Koren Publishers Koren Tanakh Hama'alot Edition, Purple (Paperback)
Koren Publishers
R730 Discovery Miles 7 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Philosopher's Playground (Hardcover): Jacob L. Goodson The Philosopher's Playground (Hardcover)
Jacob L. Goodson
R1,054 R888 Discovery Miles 8 880 Save R166 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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