0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Browse All Departments
  • All Departments
Price
  • R500 - R1,000 (2)
  • R1,000 - R2,500 (3)
  • R2,500 - R5,000 (4)
  • -
Status
Brand

Showing 1 - 9 of 9 matches in All Departments

Strength to Strength - Essays in Honor of Shaye J. D. Cohen (Hardcover): Michael L. Satlow Strength to Strength - Essays in Honor of Shaye J. D. Cohen (Hardcover)
Michael L. Satlow
R2,507 Discovery Miles 25 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Judaism and the Economy - A Sourcebook (Hardcover): Michael L. Satlow Judaism and the Economy - A Sourcebook (Hardcover)
Michael L. Satlow
R4,469 Discovery Miles 44 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Judaism and the Economy is an edited collection of sixty-nine Jewish texts relating to economic issues such as wealth, poverty, inequality, charity, and the charging of interest. The passages cover the period from antiquity to the present, and represent many different genres. Primarily fresh translations, from their original languages, many appear here in English for the first time. Each is prefaced by an introduction and the volume as a whole is introduced by a synthetic essay. These texts, read together and in different combinations, provide a new lens for thinking about the economy and make the case that religion and religious values have a place in our own economic thinking. Judaism and the Economy is a useful new resource for educators, students, and clergy alike.

Judaism and the Economy - A Sourcebook (Paperback): Michael L. Satlow Judaism and the Economy - A Sourcebook (Paperback)
Michael L. Satlow
R1,278 Discovery Miles 12 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Judaism and the Economy is an edited collection of sixty-nine Jewish texts relating to economic issues such as wealth, poverty, inequality, charity, and the charging of interest. The passages cover the period from antiquity to the present, and represent many different genres. Primarily fresh translations, from their original languages, many appear here in English for the first time. Each is prefaced by an introduction and the volume as a whole is introduced by a synthetic essay. These texts, read together and in different combinations, provide a new lens for thinking about the economy and make the case that religion and religious values have a place in our own economic thinking. Judaism and the Economy is a useful new resource for educators, students, and clergy alike.

Religion and the Self in Antiquity (Paperback): David Brakke, Michael L. Satlow, Steven Weitzman Religion and the Self in Antiquity (Paperback)
David Brakke, Michael L. Satlow, Steven Weitzman
R843 Discovery Miles 8 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Many recent studies have argued that the self is a modern invention, a concept developed in the last three centuries. Religion and the Self in Antiquity challenges that idea by presenting a series of studies that explore the origins, formation, and limits of the self within the religions of the ancient Mediterranean world. Drawing on recent work on the body, gender, sexuality, the anthropology of the senses, and power, contributors make a strong case that the history of the self does indeed begin in antiquity, developing as Western religion itself developed.

Creating Judaism - History, Tradition, Practice (Paperback): Michael L. Satlow Creating Judaism - History, Tradition, Practice (Paperback)
Michael L. Satlow
R904 R849 Discovery Miles 8 490 Save R55 (6%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

How can we define "Judaism," and what are the common threads uniting ancient rabbis, Maimonides, the authors of the Zohar, and modern secular Jews in Israel? Michael L. Satlow offers a fresh perspective on Judaism that recognizes both its similarities and its immense diversity. Presenting snapshots of Judaism from around the globe and throughout history, Satlow explores the links between vastly different communities and their Jewish traditions. He studies the geonim, rabbinical scholars who lived in Iraq from the ninth to twelfth centuries; the intellectual flourishing of Jews in medieval Spain; how the Hasidim of nineteenth-century Eastern Europe confronted modernity; and the post-World War II development of distinct American and Israeli Jewish identities. Satlow pays close attention to how communities define themselves, their relationship to biblical and rabbinic texts, and their ritual practices. His fascinating portraits reveal the amazingly creative ways Jews have adapted over time to social and political challenges and continue to remain a "Jewish family."

Strength to Strength - Essays in Honor of Shaye J. D. Cohen (Paperback): Michael L. Satlow Strength to Strength - Essays in Honor of Shaye J. D. Cohen (Paperback)
Michael L. Satlow
R2,034 Discovery Miles 20 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tasting the Dish - Rabbinic Rhetorics of Sexuality (Paperback): Michael L. Satlow Tasting the Dish - Rabbinic Rhetorics of Sexuality (Paperback)
Michael L. Satlow
R1,175 Discovery Miles 11 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Jewish Marriage in Antiquity (Hardcover): Michael L. Satlow Jewish Marriage in Antiquity (Hardcover)
Michael L. Satlow
R3,188 Discovery Miles 31 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Marriage today might be a highly contested topic, but certainly no more than it was in antiquity. Ancient Jews, like their non-Jewish neighbors, grappled with what have become perennial issues of marriage, from its idealistic definitions to its many practical forms to questions of who should or should not wed. In this book, Michael Satlow offers the first in-depth synthetic study of Jewish marriage in antiquity, from ca. 500 B.C.E. to 614 C.E. Placing Jewish marriage in its cultural milieu, Satlow investigates whether there was anything essentially "Jewish" about the institution as it was discussed and practiced. Moreover, he considers the social and economic aspects of marriage as both a personal relationship and a religious bond, and explores how the Jews of antiquity negotiated the gap between marital realities and their ideals.

Focusing on the various experiences of Jews throughout the Mediterranean basin and in Babylonia, Satlow argues that different communities, even rabbinic ones, constructed their own "Jewish" marriage: they read their received traditions and rituals through the lens of a basic understanding of marriage that they shared with their non-Jewish neighbors. He also maintains that Jews idealized marriage in a way that responded to the ideals of their respective societies, mediating between such values as honor and the far messier realities of marital life. Employing Jewish and non-Jewish literary texts, papyri, inscriptions, and material artifacts, Satlow paints a vibrant portrait of ancient Judaism while sharpening and clarifying present discussions on modern marriage for Jews and non-Jews alike.

Creating Judaism - History, Tradition, Practice (Hardcover): Michael L. Satlow Creating Judaism - History, Tradition, Practice (Hardcover)
Michael L. Satlow
R2,929 Discovery Miles 29 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How can we define "Judaism," and what are the common threads uniting ancient rabbis, Maimonides, the authors of the Zohar, and modern secular Jews in Israel? Michael L. Satlow offers a fresh perspective on Judaism that recognizes both its similarities and its immense diversity. Presenting snapshots of Judaism from around the globe and throughout history, Satlow explores the links between vastly different communities and their Jewish traditions. He studies the geonim, rabbinical scholars who lived in Iraq from the ninth to twelfth centuries; the intellectual flourishing of Jews in medieval Spain; how the Hasidim of nineteenth-century Eastern Europe confronted modernity; and the post-World War II development of distinct American and Israeli Jewish identities. Satlow pays close attention to how communities define themselves, their relationship to biblical and rabbinic texts, and their ritual practices. His fascinating portraits reveal the amazingly creative ways Jews have adapted over time to social and political challenges and continue to remain a "Jewish family."

Free Delivery
Pinterest Twitter Facebook Google+
You may like...
Reformed Resurgence - The New Calvinist…
Brad Vermurlen Hardcover R2,596 Discovery Miles 25 960
Treeline A1 Flip Chart Pads - 50 Punched…
R486 Discovery Miles 4 860
Rugby Has F***ing Laws, Not Rules - A…
Paul Williams Hardcover R407 R372 Discovery Miles 3 720
Autobiography
John Stuart Mill Hardcover R892 Discovery Miles 8 920
Low Carb Is Lekker Drie
Ine Reynierse Paperback R340 R314 Discovery Miles 3 140
Live In Concert [Italian Import] (Music
Raina Kabaivanska DVD R399 Discovery Miles 3 990
A Slimmer You Cookbook - Recipes to Help…
Regine Du Plessis Paperback R250 R231 Discovery Miles 2 310
Siegried Idyll/Meistersinger P CD (1994)
Wagner/Gould CD R117 Discovery Miles 1 170
Afrikaner Identity - Dysfunction And…
Yves Vanderhaeghen Paperback R280 R259 Discovery Miles 2 590
Misfit
Shruti Mishra Hardcover R679 R606 Discovery Miles 6 060

 

Partners