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Sinai and Zion: An Entry Into the Jewish Bible by Jon Dougla Levenson Publisher Comments One I. The Sinaitic Experience or the Traditions About It? Whatever the experience of the people Israel on Mount Sinai was, it was so overwhelming that the texts about it seem to be groping for an adequate metaphor through which to convey the awesomeness... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Transmitting Mishnah: The Shaping Influence of Oral Tradition by Elizabeth Shanks Alexander Publisher Comments Alexander brings readers into the intellectual excitement of studying Mishnah by unpacking its Talmudic interpretations.... (read more) List Price $113.95 Your price: $22.97 Sale - Hardcover
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The Hebrew Scriptures: An Introduction to Their Literature and Religious Ideas by Samuel Sandmel Publisher Comments Biblical scholarship becomes a fascinating subject for the general reader as well as for the serious student in this study of the literature of the Hebrew Scriptures. The author approaches the books of the Bible as a library of works that are narrative... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $14.50 Used - Trade Paper
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How to Read the Bible by Marc Zvi Brettler Publisher Comments Draws on literary conventions, ideological assumptions and historical conditions to demonstrate how modern critical scholarship and archaeological discoveries inform Jewish readers on ancient Hebrew Scripture, using the "historical-critical method" to... (read more) List Price $24.50 Your price: $21.74 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Murmuring Deep: Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious by Avivah Got Zornberg Publisher Comments From one of the most innovative and acclaimed biblical commentators at work today, here is a revolutionary analysis of the intersection between religion and psychoanalysis in the stories of the men and women of the Bible. For centuries scholars and... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Hebrew Prophets (04 Edition) by Shapiro Publisher Comments Hundreds of commentaries and dozens of Bible translations make the Hebrew prophets available to modern-day readers, but most often these sources focus on history or apologetics, losing the reader who is searching for spiritual insight. The Hebrew... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Wrestling With Angels What Genesis Teach by Naomi H Rosenblatt Publisher Comments Wrestling with Angels For over twenty years, psychotherapist, lecturer, and Bible teacher Naomi H. Rosenblatt has been leading some of the nation's best and brightest minds through the Bible, from Wall Street boardrooms to weekly sessions in the U.S... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Myth of a Gentile Galilee by Mark A Chancey Publisher Comments The Myth of a Gentile Galilee is the most thorough synthesis to date of archaeological and literary evidence relating to the population of Galilee in the first-century CE. The book demonstrates that, contrary to the perceptions of many New Testament... (read more) List Price $150.75 Your price: $40.00 Used - Hardcover
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Understanding Genesis by Nahun Sarna Publisher Comments "This book...is designed to make the Bible of Israel intelligible, relevant, and hopefully, inspiring to a sophisticated generation, possessed of intellectual curiosity and ethical sensitivity...It is based on the belief that the study of the Book... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How to Read the Bible by Marc Z Brettler Publisher Comments Master Bible scholar and teacher Marc Brettler argues that todays 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... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Documentary History of Judaism & Its Recent Interpreters by Jacob Neusner Synopsis Neuser has collected some of the more ambitious ventures into the documentary hypothesis of the Rabbinic canon and its current recapitulations. Neusner begins with the article written by Professor William Scott Free for Encyclopaedia Judaica second... (read more) List Price $44.50 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Punishment and Forgiveness in Israel's Migratory Campaign by Won W Lee Publisher Comments A new understanding of Israel's wandering. Arguably the most diverse book of the Old Testament, Numbers lacks any obvious structure or organization, This appears to be especially true of Numbers 10:11 - 36:13. In this new book Won Lee brings clarity to... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Judaism as Philosophy: The Method and Message of the Mishnah by Jacob Neusner Publisher Comments The book is carefully organized and provides a clear, well-structured, and lucid expression of its theses. -- Dr. Marvin Fox, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University The Mishnah is the first canonical writing of Judaism after... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $3.75 Used - Trade Paper
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The Wisdom of the Talmud: A Thousand Years of Jewish Thought by Ben Zion Bokser Publisher Comments Citadel Press is proud to announce the newest titles in the Wisdom Library, a collection of books showcasing the thoughts and writings of diverse literary, philosophical, political, and scientific immortals. These books deserve a place on every home... (read more) List Price $11.75 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Everyman's Talmud by Abraham Cohen Publisher Comments "To some readers of this book, the Talmud represents little more than a famous Jewish book. But people want to know about a book that, they are told, defines Judaism. Everyman's Talmud is the right place to begin not only to learn about Judaism in... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Biblical View of Man by Leo Adler Publisher Comments The Biblical View of Man argues cogently that the Bible is more about human beings than about God, and insists that in the biblical view, what human beings need is not so much wisdom or grace but rather their own free will to fulfill the obligations that... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $9.95 Sale - Hardcover
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This is the Torah by Alfred J Kolatch Synopsis Utilizes a question and answer format to address over 500 questions frequently asked about the most sacred Jewish text.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Alphabet That Changed the World: How Genesis Preserves a Science of Consciousness in Geometry and Gesture by Stan Tenen Publisher Comments Rabbinic tradition asserts that every letter of every word of the Torah is a word in itself. Author Stan Tenen demonstrates that each letter is also a hand gesture, and it is at this level that Hebrew forms a natural universal language. All people... (read more) Your price: $44.00 New - Trade Paper
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For the Sake of Heaven and Earth: The New Encounter between Judaism and Christianity by Irving Greenberg Publisher Comments Rabbi Greenberg's book makes an invaluable contribution to interfaith conversation. He calls for Christians and Jews to come together in their continuously evolving partnership with God--dual covenants that demand "openness to each other, learning from... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $12.42 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Radical Traditions #8: Tree of Life, Tree of Knowledge: Conversations with the Torah by Michael Rosenak Publisher Comments Viewing education through the prism of the Torah, Tree of Life, Tree of Knowledge takes the reader through the stages of learning, growth, and self-development that characterize human lives. The journey begins with education as it happens in the home... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $8.25 Used - Hardcover
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