Judaism
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Studies in Qumran Law and Thought: Collected Essays of Joseph M. BaumgartenThe study of the laws of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the light of ancient rabbinic law, and vice versa, by a master of both corpora, sheds light on their interpretation, their history, and the spiritual stances they bespeak. The thirty-two studies united in...
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Authentically Jewish: Identity, Culture, and the Struggle for RecognitionThis book analyzes the different conceptions of authenticity that are behind conflicts over who and what should be recognized as authentically Jewish. Although the concept of authenticity has been around for several centuries, it became a central focus for Jews since existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre...
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The Male Body in Ultra-Orthodox Jewish TheologyHow does Ultra-Orthodox Jewish literature describe the male body? What does the body represent? What is the ideal male body? This book is a philosophical-theological exploration of the different images of the male body in Ultra-Orthodox literature since the holocaust. The body is not...
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Impurity and Purification in Early Judaism and the Jesus TraditionThis collection of twelve essays by Thomas Kazen focuses on issues of purity and purification in early Judaism and the Jesus tradition. During the late Second Temple period, Jewish purity practices became more prominent than before and underwent substantial developments. Kazen advances the ongoing...
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My Second-Favorite Country: How American Jewish Children Think About IsraelReveals how young American Jewish children come to develop their views about Israel Israel has long occupied a prominent place in the lives and imaginations of American Jews, serving as both a symbolic touchstone and a source of intercommunal conflict. In My Second-Favorite Country,...
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Rome and Jerusalem: A Study in Jewish NationalismThis is the book that ultimately led to the creation of Israel.European Jews had been vilified and persecuted for centuries, and Moses Hess discussed it long before the rise of Hitler and Nazism.He believed that the Jews would always be homeless, unwelcomed people unless...
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The Origins of the Festival of HanukkahThis 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 as Creed and LifeOriginally published in its sixth edition in 1929, this volume was one of the first to have appeared in England which was written from a liberal standpoint. It gives a comprehensive account of Jewish belief and practice as conceived by those of moderate views....
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Elephantine Revisited: New Insights Into the Judean Community and Its NeighborsThe Judean community at Elephantine has long fascinated historians of the Persian period. This book, with its stellar assemblage of important scholarly voices, provides substantive new insights and approaches that will advance the study of this well-known but not entirely understood community from fifth-century...
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We Worship Here: Jewish SynagogueWhat is a synagogue for? What is the Torah? What are the Ten Commandments? All these questions and more are explored in this first introduction to the religion of Judaism. The We Worship Here series introduces children aged 6+ to the main religions of...
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Portraits: The Hasidic Legacy of Elie WieselElie Wiesel identified himself as a Vizhnitzer Hasid, who was above all things a witness to the testimony and teaching of the Jewish tradition at the core of the Hasidic tradition. While he is well known for his testimony on the Holocaust and as...
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The Complete Story of TishreiThis 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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Paths to Jewish Belief; a Systematic IntroductionThis 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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Jews, Antisemitism and Culture in ViennaOriginally published in 1987, this book explores the emergence, structure and ultimate fate of the Viennese Jewish community. Thirteen eminent specialists on Viennese social, political and cultural history combine to cover a wide variety of topics, including the social and psychological causes of the...
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Paths of WisdomAcclaimed as an instant classic on its original publication and eagerly soughtby students of magic ever since, Paths of Wisdom is a comprehensive introductionto the theory and practice of the magical Cabala, as practiced in the HermeticOrder of the Golden Dawn and most other...
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The Merging of Two Oceans: Nine Talks on Sufism & HasidismIn The Merging of Two Oceans, Pir Netanel Miles-Yépez follows his In the Teahouse of Experience with a new collection of talks, laying the foundations for understanding the historical and spiritual connections between Sufism and Hasidism, two of the world's great mystical traditions. He...
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Lights in the NightIn this charming picture book for young children, the magic of Shabbat is celebrated through light.As the sun goes down on a Friday evening and darkness descends, different sources of light welcome in the Sabbath: candles, lanterns, the moon and stars, fireflies, nightlights and...
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God Is Here: Reimagining the DivineMost of us are hungry for a system of meaning to make sense of our lives, yet traditional religion too often leaves those seeking spiritual sustenance unsatisfied. Rabbi Toba Spitzer understands this problem firsthand and knows that too often it is traditional ideas of...
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The Lord God of Gods: Divinity and Deification in Early JudaismThe investigation of this book into early Jewish experiences of God begins with calls to discard any categorical and definitional approaches to the literature of early Judaism, and several enduring preconceptions about its mysticism and theology (particularly the relegation of its mysticism to particular...
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Zohar-Beyond the BlackWholeZohar-Beyond the BlackWhole is the unfurling of a seven hundred-year mystery. First came Zohar, meaning Brilliance: the most mystical of all Jewish texts. Then two hundred years later came Cabala, the key to Zohar. Only in modern times can her great vision be corroborated...
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