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Matthew's Christian-Jewish Community
Häftad, 1994
290 kr
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The most Jewish of gospels in its contents and yet the most anti-Jewish in its polemics, the Gospel of Matthew has been said to mark the emergence of Christianity from Judaism. This text overturns the interpretation by showing us how Matthew, far from proclaiming the replacement of Israel by the …
Death and Dissymmetry
The Politics of Coherence in the Book of Judges
Av Mieke Bal
Häftad, 1988
325 kr
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Combining literary criticism and feminist analysis, Death and Dissymmetry radically reinterprets not only the Book of Judges but also the tradition of its reception and understanding in the West. In Mieke Bal's account, Judges documents the Israelite culture learning to articulate itself in a …
Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus
Häftad, 1998
368 kr
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Was Jesus the founder of Christianity of a teacher of Judaism? When he argued the latter based on the New Testament, Abraham Geiger ignited an intense debate that began in 19th-century Germany but continues in the late-20th century. Geiger was a pioneer of Reform Judaism and a founder of Jewish …
Economics of the Mishnah
Häftad, 1990
648 kr
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In this compelling study, Jacob Neusner argues that economics is an active and generative ingredient of the system of the Mishnah. The Mishnah directly addresses such economic concerns as the value of work, agronomics, currency, commerce and the marketplace, and correct management of labor and of …
Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus
Inbunden, 1998
857 kr
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Was Jesus the founder of Christianity of a teacher of Judaism? When he argued the latter based on the New Testament, Abraham Geiger ignited an intense debate that began in 19th-century Germany but continues in the late-20th century. Geiger was a pioneer of Reform Judaism and a founder of Jewish …
Elevations
The Height of the Good in Rosenzweig and Levinas
Inbunden, 1994
1229 kr
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This text provides a series of closely related essays on the philosophical and theological work of Franz Rosenzweig and Emmanuael Levinas, two of the 20th century's most important Jewish philosophers. Focusing on the concept of transcendence, Richard Cohen shows that Rosenzweig and Levinas join the …
Elevations
The Height of the Good in Rosenzweig and Levinas
Häftad, 1994
349 kr
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This text provides a series of closely related essays on the philosophical and theological work of Franz Rosenzweig and Emmanuel Levinas, two of the 20th century's most important Jewish philosophers. Focusing on the concept of transcendence, Richard Cohen shows that Rosenzweig and Levinas join the …
Mellah Society
Jewish Community Life in Sherifian Morocco
Häftad, 1989
350 kr
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The Mellah Society is a compact yet detailed and fascinating account of Jewish life in precolonial Morocco, based on the voluminous but rarely studied writings of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Judeo-Moroccan sages. Shlomo Deshen, author of several books on North African Jewish immigrants to …
Rethinking Modern Judaism
Ritual, Commandment, Community
Inbunden, 1998
857 kr
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Calling for a fundamental rethinking of modern Judaism, the author of this study focuses on the transformation of Jewish practice in response to the civil rights, economic possibilities, and social challenges which came with Emancipation. The text explores the central role of practice in Judaism, …
Rethinking Modern Judaism
Ritual, Commandment, Community
Häftad, 1999
325 kr
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Arnold Eisen here calls for a fundamental rethinking of the story of modern Judaism. More than simply a study of Jewish thought on customs and rituals, Rethinking Modern Judaism explores the central role that practice plays in Judaism's encounter with modernity."Fascinating . . . an insightful …
Interpreting Maimonides
Studies in Methodology, Metaphysics, and Moral Philosophy
Av Marvin Fox
Häftad, 1995
323 kr
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In this comprehensive study, Marvin Fox offers an approach to Moses Maimonides that illuminates the intersections of his philosophical, religious, and Jewish visions--ideas that have embattled readers of Maimonides since the twelfth century.
Covenant of Blood
Circumcision and Gender in Rabbinic Judaism
Häftad, 1996
325 kr
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Central to both biblical narrative and rabbinic commentary, circumcision has remained a defining rite of Jewish identity, a symbol so powerful that challenges to it have always been considered taboo. Lawrence Hoffman seeks to find out why circumcision holds such an important place in the Jewish …
Demonizing the Queen of Sheba
Boundaries of Gender and Culture in Postbiblical Judaism and Medieval Islam
Häftad, 1993
350 kr
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Over the centuries, Jewish and Muslim writers transformed the biblical Queen of Sheba from a clever, politically astute sovereign to a demonic force threatening the boundaries of gender. In this book, Jacob Lassner shows how successive retellings of the biblical story reveal anxieties about gender …
Judaism and Story
The Evidence of The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan
Inbunden, 1992
1080 kr
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In this close analysis of The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan, a sixth-century commentary on the Mishnah-tractate The Fathers (Avot), Jacob Neusner considers the way in which the story, as a distinctive type of narrative, entered the canonical writings of Judaism. The final installment in …
Rabbinic Political Theory
Religion and Politics in the Mishnah
Häftad, 1991
428 kr
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In The Economics of the Mishnah Jacob Neusner showed how economics functioned as an active and generative ingredient in the system of the Mishnah. With this new study, Rabbinic Political Theory, he moves from the economics to the politics of the Mishnah, placing that politics in the broader context …
Judaism and Christianity in the Age of Constantine
History, Messiah, Israel, and the Initial Confrontation
Häftad, 2007
350 kr
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With the conversion of Constantine in AD 312, Christianity began a period of political and cultural dominance that it would enjoy until the twentieth century. Jacob Neusner contradicts the prevailing view that following Christianity's ascendancy, Judaism continued to evolve in isolation. He argues …
Demai
A Preliminary Translation and Explanation
Inbunden, 1993
1935 kr
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With the publication of "Yerushalmi Pesahim" the University of Chicago Press completes a landmark edition of the Palestinian Talmud, "The Talmud of the Land of Israel: A Preliminary Translation and Explanation". Edited by the acclaimed scholar Jacob Neusner, this thirty-five volume translation has …
The Talmud of the Land of Israel, Volume 4 – Kilayim
A Preliminary Translation and Explanation
Inbunden, 1991
1886 kr
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Terumot
A Preliminary Translation and Explanation
Av Alan J. Avery–peck, Jacob Avery–peck m. fl.
Inbunden, 1988
1886 kr
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The Talmud of the Land of Israel, Volume 11 – Shabbat
A Preliminary Translation and Explanation
Inbunden, 1991
1901 kr
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Imagining Religion
From Babylon to Jonestown
Häftad, 1988
342 kr
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With this influential book of essays, Jonathan Z. Smith has pointed the academic study of religion in a new theoretical direction, one neither theological nor willfully ideological. Making use of examples as apparently diverse and exotic as the Maori cults in nineteenth-century New Zealand and the …
To Take Place
Toward Theory in Ritual
Häftad, 1992
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342 kr
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In this broad-ranging inquiry into ritual and its relation to place, Jonathan Z. Smith prepares the way for a new approach to the comparative study of religion. Smith stresses the importance of place—in particular, constructed ritual environments—to a proper understanding of the ways in which …
Durkheim and the Jews of France
Häftad, 1997
298 kr
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Discussing the work of Emile Durkheim, the author of this study discounts the theory that there is anything "essentially" Jewish in his work. He seeks to show that Durkheim's sociology (especially his sociology of religion), was formed in relation to 19th and 20th century Jewish intellectual life …
Judaism's Theological Voice
The Melody of the Talmud
Inbunden, 1995
763 kr
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Taking the everyday life of contemporary Judaism as his beginning in this text, Neusner asks when in the life of the living faith of the Torah does Israel, the holy community, meet God? Where does the meeting take place? What is the medium of the encounter? Neusner sets forth the character and the …
