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Consolation: The Spiritual Journey Beyond GriefIn this, his sequel to the best-selling The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning (over 350,000 copies sold), Rabbi Lamm helps mourners not just get through their grief, but also grow through it. He gently steers mourners on the path that allows their sorrow...
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How to Read the BibleMaster Bible scholar and teacher Marc Brettler argues that today's contemporary readers can only understand the ancient Hebrew Scripture by knowing more about the culture that produced it. And so Brettler unpacks the literary conventions, ideological assumptions, and historical conditions that inform the biblical...
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The JPS Bible Commentary: Song of SongsSong of Songs is a wondrous collection of love lyrics nestled in the heart of the Hebrew Bible--songs of passion and praise between a young maiden and her beloved. It is religious lyric par excellence. But what is its true meaning? Is it an...
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Book of Psalms-OE: A New Translation According to the Hebrew TextA new translation according to the traditional Hebrew text The Psalms have long brought comfort to those who mourn and have helped us find the spiritual in everyday life. This edition presents the new JPS translation, based on the original Hebrew text, as well...
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Chanting the Hebrew Bible: The Complete Guide to the Art of Cantillation [With CD]Chanting the Hebrew Bible provides a fine history of the tradition and offers a comprehensive explanation of the practice, an explanation of regional variations and grammatical rules, and shows how chanting dramatizes and interprets the meaning within the biblical text. In addition, Joshua R....
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Kabbalah and CriticismWhile Bloom is appreciated for his originality, range and clarity, less notice has been taken of the remarkable unity that is displayed in his writings from the earlier studies on Shelley, Blake and Romanticism, up to A Map of Misreading. That unity is brilliantly...
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Messiah in the PassoverMessiah in the Passover is for anyone who wants to explore the traditions of the Passover and deepen their understanding of the links between Passover, the Last Supper, and Communion. This Passover reference book discusses biblical and theological issues, Jewish and church history, and...
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El TemploEdersheim nos presenta una obra maestra sobre el Templo. En mas de 250 p ginas, con fotograf as y gr ficos a todo color, se explica con todo detalle las funciones del Templo en la vida del pueblo jud o. Esta obra forma parte...
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Hebrew GoddessThe Hebrew Goddess demonstrates that the Jewish religion, far from being pure monotheism, contained from earliest times strong polytheistic elements, chief of which was the cult of the mother goddess. Lucidly written and richly illustrated, this third edition contains new chapters of the Shekhina.Author:...
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The Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755-1816In 1756, Jacob Frank, an Ottoman Jew who had returned to the Poland of his birth, was discovered leading a group of fellow travelers in a suspect religious service. At the request of the local rabbis, Polish authorities arrested the participants. Jewish authorities contacted...
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Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern JudaismAfter a nearly two-thousand-year interlude, and just as Christian Europe was in the throes of the great Witch Hunt and what historians have referred to as The Age of the Demoniac, accounts of spirit possession began to proliferate in the Jewish world. Concentrated at...
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The Journey Home: Discovering the Deep Spiritual Wisdom of the Jewish TraditionRabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman is widely recognized as a leader in bringing spiritual innovation into modern Jewish life and worship. Now, drawing on a lifetime of study, he explores the Jewish way of being in the world-the Jewish relationship to God and to questions...
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Open HeartA profoundly and unexpectedly intimate, deeply affecting summing up of life so far, from one of the most cherished moral voices of our time. Eighty-two years old, facing emergency heart surgery and his own mortality, Elie Wiesel reflects back on his life. Emotions, images,...
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The Jews of Silence: A Personal Report on Soviet JewryIn the fall of 1965 the Israeli newspaper Haaretz sent a young journalist named Elie Wiesel to the Soviet Union to report on the lives of Jews trapped behind the Iron Curtain. "I would approach Jews who had never been placed in the Soviet...
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Exploring Our Hebraic Heritage: A Christian Theology of Roots and RenewalInformed theological guide to the Jewish foundations of the Christian faith In this very readable sequel to his popular book Our Father Abraham -- which has sold more than 70,000 copies -- Marvin Wilson illuminates theological, spiritual, and ethical themes of the Hebrew scriptures...
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Early Judaism: A Comprehensive OverviewCulled from The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism, a monumental, groundbreaking reference work published in late 2010, Early Judaism: A Comprehensive Overview contains fifteen first-rate essays from a diverse group of internationally renowned scholars. This volume provides the most comprehensive and authoritative overview available...
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Jesus and Spiral of ViolenceFrom this engrossing portrait of first-century Palestine, Jesus emerges as the catalyst of nonviolent social revolution that anticipates the renewal of Israel. This fascinating analysis opens up a new perspective of the Roman-dominated Jewish Palestine of Jesus' time, viewing it as an "imperial situation"...
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The Ritual of New Creation: Jewish Tradition and Contemporary LiteratureFinkelstein examines a wide range of recent Jewish writing, including poetry, fiction, and literary criticism, in order to determine the changes such writing has undergone in its exposure to modern and postmodern conditions of culture. Featuring discussions of such figures as Gershom Scholem, Harold...
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Hebrew Reading and Writing: Self TaughtAuthor: Fern S. MargolisPublisher: 1st Book LibraryPublished: 09/11/2003Pages: 188Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 11.18h x 8.26w x 0.41dISBN: 9780759672468This title is not returnable
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Introduction to the Intertestamental PeriodAs people finish the last book of the Old Testament they realize when turning to the New Testament that there is a gap of time not addressed by the books in most English Bibles. This period of time, known commonly as the "Intertestamental Period"...
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