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Imagining Creation
Av Markham (Mark) Geller, Mineke Schipper
Inbunden, 2007
3117 kr
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Imagining Creation is a collection of views on creation by noted authors from different disciplines. Topics include creation accounts and iconography from Mesopotamia and Egypt, and cosmologies from India and Africa. Special attention is devoted to creation in the Scriptures (Bible and Koran) and …
Traditions of Maimonideanism
Inbunden, 2009
3117 kr
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The goal of the present volume is to shed light on a number of traditions of Maimonideanism that have hitherto little been explored. Maimonides (1138 – 1204) was the most important medieval Jewish philosopher and also made lasting contributions to many other fields. The essays in the first part …
Call of the Homeland
Diaspora Nationalisms, Past and Present
Av Allon Gal, Athena S. Leoussi m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
3378 kr
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This book brings together an array of distinguished scholars to consider diaspora nationalism. Through theoretical, typological and case-specific essays that discuss the Jewish, Greek, Armenian, Irish, Turkish, Sikh, Ukrainian, Hindu, Pentecostal and Muslim diasporas, the book shows the varieties …
Tuning the Soul
Music as a Spiritual Process in the Teachings of Rabbi Naḥman of Bratzlav
Inbunden, 2010
2374 kr
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This book is an in-depth study of the function of music in religious experience according to Rabbi Naḥman of Bratzlav. It provides new insights on his unique doctrine of the “Good Points”, which represent the core of loving kindness and holiness in the human soul, and the musical context in which …
Longing, Belonging, and the Making of Jewish Consumer Culture
Av Gideon Reuveni, Nils Roemer
Inbunden, 2010
2518 kr
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Jewish history has been extensively studied from social, political, religious, and intellectual perspectives, but the history of Jewish consumption and leisure has largely been ignored. The hitherto neglect of scholarship on Jewish consumer culture arises from the tendency within Jewish studies to …
Imagining Creation (paperback)
Av Markham (Mark) Geller, Mineke Schipper
Häftad, 2010
1227 kr
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Imagining Creation is a collection of views on creation by noted authors from different disciplines. Topics include creation accounts and iconography from Mesopotamia and Egypt, and cosmologies from India and Africa. Special attention is devoted to creation in the Scriptures (Bible and Koran) and …
Sects and Sectarianism in Jewish History
Av Sacha Stern
Inbunden, 2011
2846 kr
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Sects and sectarianism are popular themes in Jewish history, but the meaning of these terms is elusive, often raising more problems than solutions. This volume, drawing on the expertise of a wide range of scholars, examines several Jewish groups from Antiquity to the present day that have been …
Russian Jewish Diaspora and European Culture, 1917-1937
Av Jörg Schulte, Olga Tabachnikova m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
3170 kr
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The Jewish emigration from Russia after the Revolution of 1917 changed the face of Jewish culture in Western Europe. Russian Jews brought with them the visions of a national Jewish literature in Hebrew, Yiddish or Russian, and new concepts of secular Jewish music and art. Often they acted as …
Zodiac Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Their Reception
Ancient Astronomy and Astrology in Early Judaism
Inbunden, 2014
3965 kr
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The ancient mathematical basis of the Aramaic calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls is analysed in this investigation. Helen R. Jacobus re-examines an Aramaic zodiac calendar with a thunder divination text (4Q318) and the calendar from the Aramaic Astronomical Book (4Q208 - 4Q209), all from Qumran. …
Warsaw. The Jewish Metropolis
Essays in Honor of the 75th Birthday of Professor Antony Polonsky
Av Glenn Dynner, François Guesnet
Inbunden, 2015
2910 kr
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Warsaw was once home to the largest and most diverse Jewish community in the world. It was a center of rich varieties of Orthodox Judaism, Jewish Socialism, Diaspora Nationalism, Zionism, and Polonization. This volume is the first to reflect on the entire history of the Warsaw Jewish community, …
Archaeology and Material Culture of the Babylonian Talmud
Inbunden, 2015
2905 kr
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The Babylonian Talmud remains the richest source of information regarding the material culture and lifestyle of the Babylonian Jewish community, with additional data now supplied by Babylonian incantation bowls. Although archaeology has yet to excavate any Jewish sites from Babylonia, information …
Warsaw. The Jewish Metropolis (paperback)
Essays in Honor of the 75th Birthday of Professor Antony Polonsky
Av Glenn Dynner, François Guesnet
Häftad, 2017
665 kr
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Warsaw was once home to the largest and most diverse Jewish community in the world. It was a center of rich varieties of Orthodox Judaism, Jewish Socialism, Diaspora Nationalism, Zionism, and Polonization. This volume is the first to reflect on the entire history of the Warsaw Jewish community, …
Jewish Languages in Historical Perspective
Av Lily Kahn
Inbunden, 2018
3391 kr
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Jewish Languages in Historical Perspective is devoted to the diverse array of spoken and written language varieties that have been employed by Jews in the Diaspora from antiquity until the twenty-first century. It focuses on the following five key themes: Jewish languages in dialogue with sacred …
Scholar and Kabbalist: The Life and Work of Gershom Scholem
Inbunden, 2018
3039 kr
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The articles collected in Scholar and Kabbalist: The Life and Work of Gershom Scholem present diverse biographical aspects and the scholarly oeuvre of arguably the most influential Jewish-Israeli intellectual of the 20th century. Immigrating to Palestine in 1923, Gershom Scholem became one of the …
Representing Jewish Thought
Proceedings of the 2015 Institute of Jewish Studies Conference Held in Honour of Professor Ada Rapoport-Albert
Av Agata Paluch
Inbunden, 2021
2192 kr
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Representing Jewish Thought originated in the conference, convened in honour of Professor Ada Rapoport-Albert, on the theme of visual representations of Jewish thought from antiquity to the early modern period. The volume encompasses essays on various modes and media of transmitting and …
