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The Jewish War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics)
by Flavius Josephus  Publisher Comments Revised with a new introduction....
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The Land of the Body
by Sarah J. K. Pearce Publisher Comments With this book, Sarah Pearce presents the first extended study of the representation of Egypt in the writings of Philo of Alexandria. Philo is a crucial witness, not only to the experiences of the Jews of Alexandria, but to the world of early Roman Egypt...
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Method in Unit Delimitation (Pericope)
by Marjo C.a. Korpel Et Al Book News Annotation Eight papers from Pericope Group meeting in Groningen in 2004, Edinburgh in 2006 and Vienna in 2007 look at methods for determining textual divisions of scripture written in ancient scripts. Among their topics are paragraphing in a Tibero-Palestinian...
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Jewish History (Complete Idiot's Guides)
by Benjamin Blech Publisher Comments 'You\'re no idiot, of course. You know that Judaism began with Abraham and that Moses led the children out of slavery in Egypt. But when it comes to knowing who Elijah, Esther, and Judah Maccabee were, and their significance to Judaism, you feel like you\...
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Encyclopedia of Judaism
by Sara Karesh Publisher Comments Jewish people have settled around the world, adapted to their host nations, and produced cultural variances within Judaism. In doing so, they have experienced both prosperity and tragedy. In about 800 A-to-Z entries, Encyclopedia of Judaism explores a...
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Poles, Jews, and the Politics of Nationality: The Bund and the Polish Socialist Party in Late Czarist Russia, 1892-1914
by Joshua D. Zimmerman Publisher Comments The Jewish experience on Polish lands is often viewed backwards through the lens of the Holocaust and the ethnic rivalries that escalated in the period between the two world wars. Critical to the history of Polish-Jewish relations, however, is the period...
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What the Rabbis Said: The Public Discourse of 19th Century American Rabbis
by Naomi W. Cohen Publisher Comments "Cohen breaks new ground by drawing from relatively unstudied sources: the sermons delivered in nineteenth-century synagogues." —Marc Saperstein, Principal, Leo Baeck College What the Rabbis Said examines a relatively unexplored facet of the rich...
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The Hermeneutics of Medieval Jewish Thought
by Moshe Pinchas Weisblum Book News Annotation Weisblum describes interpretive approaches of the two pillars of medieval commentary on the Bible and the Talmud, Rashi (1040-1105) in France and Nahmanides (1194-1270) in Spain, which remain the foundations of Biblical and Talmudic scholarship today....
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Beginnings of Jewishness: Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainti
by Shaye J. D. Cohen Publisher Comments This is a study of the notion of Jewishness from c. 200 BCE to c. 200 CE. Reasonable and well-informed people disputed whether a given person was Jewish or not; Cohen opens by discussing just such an argument, about Herod the Great....
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Jewish Liturgy: A Comprehensive History
by Ismar Elbogen Publisher Comments A joint publication with the Jewish Theological Seminary. The definitive work on the subject, Ismar Elbogen's analysis covers the entire range of Jewish liturgical development--beginning with the early cornerstones of the siddur, through the evolution of...
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The Jewish Prison: A Rebellious Meditation on the State of Judaism
by Jean Daniel Publisher Comments Creating a firestorm of controversy in France when it was first released last year, this personal inquiry into what it means to be Jewish posits the challenging idea that Jews have been constrained and punished by their own ideas about their identity...
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A History of the Jewish People During the Babylonian, Persian and Greek Periods
by Charles Foster Kent Publisher Comments 1917. With maps and chart. Contents Part I The Babylonian Period of Jewish History: The Historical Sources and Literature of the Period; The Dispersion of the Jews; The Character and Condition of the Jews in Palestine and Egypt; The Jewish Exiles in...
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Jew in the American World (96 Edition)
by Jacob Rader Marcus Book News Annotation A translation of the 6th edition (1987, Nauka Press, Moscow) of a textbook which had been extensively revised and augmented as compared with the 2nd edition (1957, Nauka Press, Moscow; translation into English, Pergamon Press, 1966). Material is...
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The American Synagogue (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life)
by Jack Wertheimer Publisher Comments Leading historians of modern Jewry offer the first comprehensive account of American synagogue history....
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Josephus, the Essential Works: A Condensation of Jewish Antiquities and the Jewish War
by Flavius Josephus Publisher Comments This is an updated, full-color edition of Josephus: The Essential Writings. The Jewish Antiquities and The Jewish War of Josephus take on a brilliant new dimension in this revised edition of the award-winning translation and condensation now with full...
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The Religion of Israel - An Historical Study
by Henry Smith Publisher Comments Contents Include - Aim and Method - Nomadic and His Work - The Transition - Religion in the Early Literature - The Earlier Prophets - Amos and Hosea - Isaiah - Jeremiah - The Begginnings of Legalism - Ezekiel - Legalism Triumphant - The Dogmatic Bias...
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The Creation of History in Ancient Israel
by Marc Brettler Publisher Comments Much of the Hebrew Bible narrates what it claims to be the history of Israel. However, a close reading of the biblical text in junction with other literary and archaeological evidence indicates that the "history" provided by the Hebrew Bible is...
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Seeking the Favor of God: Volume 1: The Origins of Penitential Prayer in Second Temple Judaism
by Mark J. Boda Book News Annotation The late 1990s saw a flurry of significant publications on the Second Temple era, and in response the Society of Biblical Literature set up a series of annual meetings designed to encourage mutual consultation. The idea worked admirably, and these 11...
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The Rabbi's Wife: The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life
by Shuly Rubin Schwartz Publisher Comments Winner of the 2006 National Jewish Book Award, Modern Jewish Thought "The first book to study the evolution of the role and the women who have filled it, The Rabbi's Wife not only honors many unsung heroines but provides a significant contribution to...
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Judaic Religion in the Second Temple Period: Belief and Practice from the Exile to Yavneh
by Lester L. Grabbe Publisher Comments The developments in Judaism which occurred during the Second Temple period (c. 550 BC to 100 AD) were of great importance for the nature of Jewish religion in later centuries, yet few studies have examined the era in full. Now, Lester L. Grabbe's lucid...
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