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Brill's Series in Jewish Studies, #22: Brill's Series in Jewish Studies, Guardians of the Gate: Angelic Vice Regency in Late Antiquity
by Nathaniel Deutsch  Publisher Comments This exploration of the phenomenon of angelic vice regency in Late Antiquity compares figures from Judaism, Mandaeism, and Gnosticism. The first part of the book is devoted to the question of mediation in Late Antiquity and to the role of exegesis in the...
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Essence of Teshuvah
by Chaim Nussbaum Publisher Comments A clarification of the essentials of teshuvah as dealt with in traditional sources and by biblical characters....
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JSOT Supplement #111: Yahweh and the Sun Biblical and Archaeol
by Glen Taylor Publisher Comments This challenging provocative book argues that there was in ancient Israel a considerable degree of overlap between the worship of the sun and of Yahweh-even that Yahweh was worshipped as the sun in some contexts. As an object created not by humankind but...
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The New Jewish Baby Book: Names, Ceremonies and Customs: A Guide for Today's Families
by Anita Diamant Publisher Comments A complete guide to the customs and rituals for welcoming a new child into the world and into the Jewish community. Includes: -- Names -- Ceremonies...
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Why Antisemitism
by Naphtali Zevi Judah Berlin Publisher Comments She'ar Yisrael, The Remnant of Israel, by Rabbi Naphtali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (1816-1893), is one of the earliest works by a Jewish scholar to address the question of antisemitism. Rabbi Berlin, more popularly referred to as the Neziv, was the most...
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The Other in Jewish Thought and History: Constructions of (International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory)
by Laurence J. Silberstein Synopsis Cultural boundaries and group identity are often forged in relation to the Other. In every society, conceptions of otherness, which often reflect a group's fears and vulnerabilities, result in deep-rooted traditions of inclusion and exclusion that...
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Reviewing the Covenant: Eugene B. Borowitz and the Postmodern Renewal of Jewish Theology (Suny Series in Jewish Philosophy)
by Peter Ochs Publisher Comments In Reviewing the Covenant, six Jewish philosophers -- and one Christian colleague -- respond to the work of the renowned Jewish theologian Eugene Borowitz, one of the leading figures in the movement of "postmodern" Jewish philosophy and theology. The...
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Modern Varieties Judaism
by Joseph L Blau Publisher Comments In the sphere of religion Dr. Blau describes the adjustments that Judaism has made in the past two centuries -- adjustments that allow both change and continuity within an age-old tradition. He deals in order of their emergence with the religion's major...
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Holy Living
by Louis Jacobs Publisher Comments A scholarly and sensitive portrait of the hasid, the "righteous personality."...
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Jewish Tales of Reincarnation
by Yonassan Gershom Publisher Comments Scattered throughout many kabbalistic and Hasidic texts are numerous teaching stories with reincarnation as their central theme. In order to make the classical stories understandable to the modern reader, each tale has been expanded to include clear...
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Harvard Judaic Texts & Studies #0003: Christian Hebraists and Dutch Rabbis: Seventeenth Century Apologetics and the Study of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah
by Aaron L. Katchen Publisher Comments This work, a complex exposition of Jewish philosophical methodology and doctrine completed in 1190 and translated from Arabic into Latin within three decades of the author's lifetime, made him a widely celebrated figure in the scholastic capitals of...
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The Holy Fire: the Teachings of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, the Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto: the Teachings of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, the R
by Nehemiah Polen Publisher Comments The Holy Fire: The Teachings of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, the Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto is a journey into the mind and spirit of a sublime hasidic master in his moments of joy and tranquillity, and later, in his time of personal and communal...
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Halakhic Positions of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
by Joseph B. Soloveitchik Publisher Comments In Halakhic Positions of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, insights into Jewish law from the preeminent figure of twentieth-century modern Orthodoxy are presented in a clear and concise manner. Commonly known as the Rav, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik,...
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Medicine & Jewish Law V2 (Medicine & Jewish Law)
by Fred Rosner Publisher Comments Ethical and religious analyses from classic and recent rabbinic sources on topics in modern medical practice....
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Condition of Jewish Belief
by Aroson Jason Publisher Comments Commentary Magazine Thirty-eight rabbis and theologians offer a contemporary restatement of the basic concepts of Judaism....
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Robert and Arlene Kogod Library of Judaic Studies #5: Ben: Sonship and Jewish Mysticism
by Moshe Idel Synopsis While many aspects of Sonship have been analyzed in books on Judaism, this book constitutes the first attempt to address the category of Sonship in Jewish mystical literature as a whole a category much more vast than ever imagined. Idel's aim is to poin...
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The Thirteen Petalled Rose
by Adin Steinsaltz Publisher Comments The Thirteen Petalled Rose, written by the world-renowned scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, is based on the structures and assumptions of kabbalah, the largely esoteric theological system that deals with the relationships between man, Torah, the...
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Reluctant Theologians
by Beth Hawkins Publisher Comments Beth Hawkins focuses on the problematic faith in the works of Kafka, Celan, and Jabs to reevaluate the notions of God and covenant in light of Nietzsche's "death of God" hypothesis. the divine-human relation. In Reluctant Theologians, she shows that...
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Ethics of Maimonides (Modern Jewish Philosophy and Religion)
by Hermann Cohen Publisher Comments Hermann Cohen's essay on Maimonides' ethics is one of the most fundamental texts of twentieth-century Jewish philosophy, correlating Platonic, prophetic, Maimonidean, and Kantian traditions. Almut Sh. Bruckstein provides the first English translation and...
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Joseph's Wardrobe: Teacher's Guide
by Paul J. Citrin Publisher Comments In this modern midrash, an adventure set in the time of King Solomon, Paul Citrin explores five essential values of concern to Jews today: compassion, freedom, justice, identity, and community....
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