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The Ancient Synagogue from Its Origins to 200 C.E.: A Source Book (Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity)
by Anders Runesson  Synopsis This volume gathers for the first time all of the primary source material on the early synagogues up through the Second Century C. E. Each entry contains bibliographic citations and interpretative comments. An Introduction frames the current state of...
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The Jews in the Time of Jesus: An Introduction
by Stephen Wylen Publisher Comments Understanding Jewish life in the first century will help us better understand Jesus mission and how it relates to our own religious concerns today. For anyone who is interested in understanding the Jewish roots of Christianity....
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Jewish Settler Violence: Deviance as Social Reaction
by David Weisburd Publisher Comments Between 1949 and 1967 few Israelis had questioned the boundaries established during Israel's war for independence. Zionist and religious ideologies that advocated Jewish control over all the Land of Israel ---the areas of Jewish settlement in biblical...
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The Sage in Jewish Society of Late Antiquity
by Richard L. Kalmin Publisher Comments "The Sage in Jewish Society of Late Antiquity" explores the social position of rabbis in Palestinian (Roman) and Babylonian (Persian) society from the period of the fall of the Temple to late antiquity. Author Richard Kalmin argues that ancient rabbinic...
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The Jews of Poland
by Bernard Dov Weinryb Publisher Comments The Jews of Poland tells the story of the development and growth of Polish Jewry from its beginnings, around the year 1200, when it numbered a few score people, to about six hundred years later, when it totaled a million or more people. This books...
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The Jewish Messiahs: From the Galilee to Crown Heights
by Harris Lenowitz Publisher Comments In this book, Harris Lenowitz explores the fascinating history of Jewish messianic movements. Looking in detail at all of the Jewish messiahs about whom anything is known, he introduces each of these figures in turn, and offers extensive excerpts of the...
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The Divided Self: Israel and the Jewish Psyche Today
by David J. Goldberg Publisher Comments Rabbi David Goldberg, one of today's most respected and outspoken Jewish leaders, grapples with the dilemmas of contemporary Jewishness with characteristic candor. He contrasts the flexibility of the Jewish Diaspora, whose identity has been historically...
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Christian Antisemitism
by William Nicholls Publisher Comments In Christian Antisemitism: A History of Hate, Professor William Nicholls, a former minister in the Anglican Church and the founder of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of British Columbia, presents his stunning research, stating that...
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Foundations of Sephardic Spirituality: The Inner Life of Jews of the Ottoman Empire
by Marc D. Angel Publisher Comments In this groundbreaking work, Rabbi Marc Angel explores the teachings, values, attitudes, and cultural patterns that characterized Judeo-Spanish culture over the generations and how the Sephardim maintained a strong sense of pride and dignity, even when...
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The People of Many Names: Toward a Clearer Understanding of the Miracle of the Jewish People
by Steve Maltz Publisher Comments The longawaited third volume of Leigh Churchill's popular saga is another pageturningromp through the wild and woolly history of the church.Have you ever wondered why the Crusades were fought Or why there is a 'Chteau Neufdu Pape' 'the Pope's new house...
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American Zionism from Herzl to the Holocaust
by Melvin I Urofsky Publisher Comments Theodore Herzl, a Vienna journalist, realized that anti-Semitism, dramatically illustrated by the Dreyfus Affair in 1890s France, would never be stemmed by the attempts of Jews to assimilate. The publication of his Der Judenstaat in 1896 began the...
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The rise and fall of Jewish nationalism
by Doron Mendels Book News Annotation Mendels (ancient history, Hebrew U. of Jerusalem) avoids the detailed scholarly debates, attempting to bring readers close to the original texts, the goal being increased understanding of Jewish nationalism within the context of the nationalism of the...
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The Final Exodus: The Regathering of the Children of Isarel
by William Carr Blood Publisher Comments Scripture Tells Us: "in the last days scoffers will come ... saying, "where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation." 2 Peter 3 3-4 These scoffers were silenced...
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Dictionary of Ancient Rabbis: Selections from the Jewish Encyclopaedia
by Jacob Neusner Publisher Comments "The Jewish Encyclopaedia," the monumental ten-volume resource on all aspects of Judaism, was originally published at the turn of the twentieth century. Introduced and compiled by Jacob Neusner, the "Dictionary of Ancient Rabbis" selects every entry from...
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Judaism of the Second Temple Period: Qumran and Apocalypticism, Volume 1
by David Flusser Publisher Comments 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 now...
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Through a Speculum That Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism
by Elliot R. Wolfson Publisher Comments A comprehensive treatment of visionary experience in some of the main texts of Jewish mysticism, this book reveals the overwhelmingly visual nature of religious experience in Jewish spirituality from antiquity through the late Middle Ages. Using...
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Historical Atlas of the Jewish People : From the Time of the Patriarchs To the Present (03 Edition)
by Eli Barnavi Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references and index....
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Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail: A History in the American West a History in the American West
by Jeanne E. Abrams Publisher Comments View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction. "[This book] is a landmark of scholarship in western women's history." —Oregon Historical Quarterly "Readers interested in a unique chapter in Jewish history will find this book a...
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Nothing Sacred: The Truth about Judaism
by Douglas Rushkoff Publisher Comments Acclaimed writer and thinker Douglas Rushkoff, author of Ecstasy Club and Coercion, has written perhaps the most important — and controversial — book on Judaism in a generation. As the religion stands on the brink of becoming irrelevant to the...
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Transformation of the Roman World #17: Where We Stand, 3. Volume One: Issues and Debates in Ancient Judaism
by Jacob Neusner Publisher Comments This collection of systematic "Auseinandersetzungen articulates difference and spells out what is at issue. Learning atrophies when political consensus substitutes for criticism, and when other than broadly-accepted viewpoints, approaches, and readings...
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