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The Religion of Ancient IsraelPatrich D. Miller investigates the role religion played in the family, village, tribe, and nation-state of ancient Israel. He situates Israel's religion in context where a variety of social forces affected beliefs, and where popular cults openly competed with the "official" religion. He makes...
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A Brief History of Ancient IsraelGrounded in the latest archeological developments, Victor Matthews's A Brief History of Ancient Israel presents a concise history of Israel covering the ancestral period, conquest and settlement, the monarchy, and both the exilic and postexilic periods. Using supplemental figures and insets, the author concentrates...
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Ancient Jewish Magic: A HistoryGideon Bohak gives a pioneering account of the broad history of ancient Jewish magic, from the Second Temple to the rabbinic period. It is based both on ancient magicians' own compositions and products in Aramaic, Hebrew and Greek, and on the descriptions and prescriptions...
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The Invention of Judaism: Torah and Jewish Identity from Deuteronomy to Paul Volume 7Most people understand Judaism to be the Torah and the Torah to be Judaism. However, in The Invention of Judaism, John J. Collins persuasively argues this was not always the case. The Torah became the touchstone for most of Judaism's adherents only in the...
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The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000: Volume 4Since Peter Stuyvesant greeted with enmity the first group of Jews to arrive on the docks of New Amsterdam in 1654, Jews have entwined their fate and fortunes with that of the United States--a project marked by great struggle and great promise. What this...
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The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke BarriersThis wonderfully charming memoir, written when the author was 93, vibrantly brings to life an all-but-forgotten time and place. It is a moving tale of working-class life, and of the boundaries that can be overcome by love. "There are places that I have never...
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Yiddish: A Nation of WordsAbout a thousand years ago, European Jews began speaking a language that was quite different from the various tongues and dialects that swirled around them. It included Hebrew, a touch of the Romance and Slavic languages, and a large helping of German. In a...
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The Harlot by the Side of the Road: Forbidden Tales of the Bible"The stories you are about to read are some of the most violent and sexually explicit in all of Western literature. They are tales of human passion in all of its infinite variety: adultery, seduction, incest, rape, mutilation, assassination, torture, sacrifice, and murder. ....
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Finding God in the Garden: Backyard Reflections on Life, Love, and CompostGrieving after the death of a beloved daughter, Rabbi Balfour Brickner struggled with his faith while preparing a flowerbed. One day the rabbi found himself writing down the thoughts that came to him as he turned the soil, and observing nature's abundant examples of...
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And God Said: How Translations Conceal the Bible's Original MeaningFor centuries, translations of the Bible have obscured our understanding and appreciation of the original text. Now And God Said provides readers with an authoritative account of significant mistranslations and shows how new translation methods can give readers their first glimpse into what the...
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Cuando a la Gente Buena Le Pasan Cosas Malas / When Bad Things Happen to Good Pe OpleCuando su hijo fue diagnosticado a los tres a os de edad con una enfermedad degenerativa que acortar a su vida en la adolescencia, Harold Kushner se enfrent a una de las preguntas m s angustiantes en la vida: Por qu , Dios? A...
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Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of RevolutionThe life and thought of a forceful figure in Israel's religious and political life Rav Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) was one of the most influential--and controversial--rabbis of the twentieth century. A visionary writer and outstanding rabbinic leader, Kook was a philosopher, mystic, poet, jurist,...
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Jacob: Unexpected PatriarchFrom the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a meditation on the complex life of the father of the Twelve Tribes and how the ancient writers and storytellers shaped his identity "An engaging analysis of one of the Bible's most complex figures."--Kirkus Reviews A powerful hero...
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Kabbalah in Italy, 1280-1510: A SurveyThis sweeping survey of the history of Kabbalah in Italy represents a major contribution from one of the world's foremost Kabbalah scholars. The first to focus attention on a specific center of Kabbalah, Moshe Idel charts the ways that Kabbalistic thought and literature developed...
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Conversos, Inquisition, and the Expulsion of the Jews from SpainThe Jewish community of medieval Spain was the largest and most important in the West for more than a thousand years, participating fully in cultural and political affairs with Muslim and Christian neighbors. This stable situation began to change in the 1390s, and through...
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Life Cycles in Jewish and Christian WorshipMore than a series of rites of passage through the landmarks of growing up and growing old, Jewish and Christian life-cycle rituals give the members of each religious tradition theological and ritualized definitions of what a life should be. In this volume, the fourth...
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Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life: Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas, WittgensteinDistinguished philosopher Hilary Putnam, who is also a practicing Jew, questions the thought of three major Jewish philosophers of the 20th century--Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, and Emmanuel Levinas--to help him reconcile the philosophical and religious sides of his life. An additional presence in the...
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Theodor Herzl: From Assimilation to Zionism"An original and brilliant thesis, exposing a long misunderstood figure. A great book." --Bernard Avishai"Excellent . . . a highly revealing portrait that demolishes Herzl-the-icon." --Michael Marrus"Other biographers . . . have illuminated aspects of [Herzl's] life, but none has been able to produce...
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Queer Theory and the Jewish QuestionThe essays in this volume boldly map the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. With important essays by such well-known figures in queer and gender studies as Judith Butler, Daniel Boyarin,...
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The Jewish Cultural Tapestry: International Jewish Folk TraditionsHere, in one compact volume, is an illuminating survey of Jewish folkways on five continents. Filled with fascinating facts and keen insights, The Jewish Cultural Tapestry is a richly woven fabric that vividly captures the diversity of Jewish life. All traditional Jews are bound...
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