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Judaism of the Second Temple Period: Qumran and Apocalypticism, Vol. 1Translated by Azzan Yadin Foreword by David Bivin David Flusser was a very prolific scholar of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and his contributions to Scrolls research, apocalypticism, and apocalyptic literature are inestimable. With this English translation of many of his essays, Flusser's insights are...
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Jeremiah 21-36Formerly one of the largest and most militant Islamic organizations in the Middle East, Egypt's al-Gama'ah al-Islamiyah is believed to have played an instrumental role in numerous acts of global terrorism, including the assassination of President Anwar Sadat and the 1993 World Trade Center...
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The Fractured Jew: An Exploration of Modern Jewish Ontology Via Identities in Popular CultureMusician Josh Groban claims that he is not Jewish because of his paternal lineage. Contrariwise, Comedian Tiffany Haddish claims Jewish identity specifically because of similar lineage. Using this contrast as a jumping off point, this book explores how Judaism and Jewishness represent themselves in...
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A Jewish TaleCan you know God; and how would that relationship impact your life? A Jewish Tale is a saga of an American Jewess's life, which spans from her birth in Brooklyn at the end of World War II, through the great cultural upheaval of the...
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Jews in Southern Tuscany During the Holocaust: Ambiguous RefugeThe province of Grosseto in southern Tuscany shows two extremes in the treatment of Italian and foreign Jews during the Holocaust. To the east of the province, the Jews of Pitigliano, a four hundred-year-old community, were hidden for almost a year by sympathetic farmers...
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The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel: New Identities Across Time and SpaceAuthor: Andrew TobolowskyPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 03/17/2022Pages: 300Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.34lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81dISBN: 9781316514948About the AuthorTobolowsky, Andrew: - Andrew Tobolowsky is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the College of William and Mary. An acknowledged expert on the tradition and on...
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Riddles, Donkeys, Wormy Cheese, and Much More: Selected Writings on Jewish ThemesIncluded in the cheese platter of a supervised public kosher dinner was wormy cheese in which one could see the worms jumping around! Even though creepy-crawlies are strictly forbidden according to the kosher food laws, an exception are those found in cheese which has...
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From Jerusalem to Delhi, through PersiaWhy are Jews so attracted to India, to Hinduism, and to Buddhism in the United States as well as Israel? They travel there by the thousands, attracted by the exoticism of course, but, Adelman believes, also drawn by an atavistic connection, dating back to...
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Religion Around Walter BenjaminThis book shows how institutional religion and the religiosity of political and cultural life provide a necessary dimension to Walter Benjamin, one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers. Lived religion surrounded Benjamin, whose upper-middle-class Jewish family celebrated Christmas and Hanukkah in Berlin as the...
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Jesus and Materialism in the Gospel of Mark: Traveling Light on the WayThe Gospel of Mark presents Jesus' ministry and mission as a journey on "the way," a journey to Jerusalem that ultimately results in his suffering and crucifixion. On the journey to the cross, Jesus embodies that which is least, vulnerable, and destitute in society,...
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Jeremiah 37-52Stirring words of the most outspoken of the Hebrew prophets are reexamined in this concluding volume of the esteemed Anchor Bible Commentary on Jeremiah. This final book of the three-volume Anchor Bible Commentary gives us translation and commentary on the concluding sixteen chapters of...
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The Literature of the Sages: A Re-VisioningThis volume abandons the document-based approach of standard introductions and investigates aggregates of classical rabbinic texts through three broad perspectives - intertextuality, east and west, halakhah and aggadah - generating fresh insights that will reset the scholarly agenda.Author: Christine HayesPublisher: BrillPublished: 05/14/2022Pages: 672Binding Type:...
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Eliezer-Zusman of Brody: The Early Modern Synagogue Painter and His WorldThe book Eliezer-Zusman of Brody: The Early Modern Synagogue Painter and His World focuses on the work methods of the synagogue painter Eliezer-Zusman of Brody, as a case study of Jewish cultural and artistic migration from Eastern Europe to German lands.Author: Zvi OrgadPublisher: BrillPublished:...
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The Essenes: Their History and Doctrines2021 Reprint of the 1864 Edition. Facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The Essenes have gained fame in modern times as a result of the discovery of an extensive group of religious documents known as the Dead Sea...
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The Studia Philonica Annual XXXIII, 2021: Studies in Hellenistic JudaismThe Studia Philonica Annual is a scholarly journal devoted to the study of Hellenistic Judaism, particularly the writings and thought of the Hellenistic-Jewish writer Philo of Alexandria (circa 15 BCE to circa 50 CE). Volume 33 includes a special section on the history of...
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The History of Galilee, 1538-1949: Mysticism, Modernization, and WarThis study of Galilee in modern times reaches back to the region's Biblical roots and points to future challenges in the Arab-Jewish conflict, Israel's development, and inter-faith relations. This volume covers an array of subjects, including Kabbalah, the rise of Palestinian nationalism, modern Christian...
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Engaging the Doctrine of IsraelThis book is the dogmatic sequel to Levering's Engaging the Doctrine of Marriage, in which he argued that God's purpose in creating the cosmos is the eschatological marriage of God and his people.. God sets this marriage into motion through his covenantal election of...
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Exclusiveness and Tolerance;This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Judaism and Christianity the Differences /c by Trude Weiss-RosmarinThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Rupture and Reconstruction: The Transformation of Modern OrthodoxyThe essay that forms the core of this book is an attempt to understand the developments that have occurred in Orthodox Jewry in America in the last seventy years, and to analyse their implications. The prime change is what is often described as 'the...
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