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Voices from Genesis: Guiding Us Through the Stages of Life
by Norman J Cohen  Synopsis Applies Erik Erikson's eight stages of human development to Genesis' characters so each comes to represent a different stage in life -- from birth to maturity to death....
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The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey Between Worlds
by Jonathan Rosen Synopsis Rosen explores the contradictions of his inheritance and toggles between personal paradoxes and the larger world. Along the way, he chronicles the remarkable parallels between a page of the Talmud and the home page of a Web site....
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Cracking the Bible Code
by Jeffrey Satinover Publisher Comments The discovery that precise, descriptions of earth-shaking events seem to be encoded into the first five books of the Bible has captured the world's attention. No one in ancient times could have had such knowledge, but if no individual put the codes there,...
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The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey Between Worlds
by Jonathan Rosen Publisher Comments The Talmud and the Internet, in which Jonathan Rosen examines the contradictions of his inheritance as a modern American and a Jew, is a moving and exhilarating meditation on modern technology and ancient religious impulses. Blending memoir, religious...
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The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis
by Avivah Got Zornberg Publisher Comments Turn the Scriptures over to Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg and what do you get? A unique blend of brilliant literary insights and theological wisdom, derived from a lifelong immersion in rabbinic traditions and lore. With amazing literary sensitivity, Zornberg...
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Listen to Her Voice
by Miki Raver Publisher Comments Eve, Sarah, Rachel, Delilah, Ruth?their names live on, but their ancient stories have been obscured. This newly issued paperback presents a sumptuously illustrated retelling of the lives of 18 women in the Hebrew Bible. Author Miki Raver pairs each...
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The Burnt Book: Reading the Talmud
by Marc Alain Ouaknin Publisher Comments In a profound look at what it means for new generations to read and interpret ancient religious texts, rabbi and philosopher Marc-Alain Ouaknin offers a postmodern reading of the Talmud, one of the first of its kind. Combining traditional learning and...
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Biblical Literacy : the Most Important People, Events, and Ideas of the Hebrew Bible (97 Edition)
by Joseph Telushkin Publisher Comments As he did so brilliantly in his bestselling book, jewish literacy,Joseph Teluslikin once again mines a subject of, Jewish history and religion so richly that his book becomes an inspiring companion and a fundamental reference. In Biblical Lileracy...
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Five Cities of Refuge: Weekly Reflections on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy
by Lawrence Kushner Publisher Comments In the ancient Jewish practice of the kavannah (a meditation designed to focus one’s heart on its spiritual goal), Lawrence Kushner and David Mamet offer their own reactions to key verses from each week’s Torah portion, opening the biblical...
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The Torah for Dummies (For Dummies)
by Arthur Kurzweil Synopsis An easy-to-understand introduction to Judaism's most sacred text The foundation of Hebrew and Jewish religion, thought, law, and society is the Torah-the parchment scroll containing the text of the Five Books of Moses that is located in every synagogue...
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Genesis :a new translation of the classic Biblical stories
by Stephen Mitchell About the Author Stephen Mitchell attended Amherst, the University of Paris, and Yale. His many books include The Book of Job, Tao Te Ching, Parables and Portraits, The Gospel According to Jesus, A Book of Psalms, Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of...
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Hebrew Prophets (04 Edition)
by Shapiro Publisher Comments The Hebrew Prophets: Selections Annotated & Explained makes the wisdom of these timeless teachers available to readers with no previous knowledge of the prophets. With fresh, contemporary commentary, Rami Shapiro reveals the central themes covered by all...
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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...
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Beyond the Verse: Talmudic Readings and Lectures (Continuum Impacts)
by Emmanuel Levinas Publisher Comments This new volume in the Impacts series brings together an important collection of essays by Emmanuel Levinas, a leading philosopher of the 20th century, dating from between 1969 and 1980. The essays consider specific Jewish problems: exegetic methodology,...
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Understanding Genesis (66 Edition)
by Nahum M. 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 of...
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Redeeming Relevance in the Book of Genesis: Explorations in Text and Meaning
by Francis Nataf Publisher Comments We see fewer and fewer serious attempts to seek the Torah's evaluation of new ideas and behavior.... This is the way one treats antiquities: by protecting them in museums, they lose any relevance to the present. More important, this is not the way Jews...
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Commentary on the Torah
by Richard Elliott Friedman Publisher Comments Chapter One At the beginning of this commentary, I emphasized the point that the Bible is rich in background, that the events in the first reading, Parashat Bereshit, remain as an essential substratum in all that follows in the Bible's story. Every...
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Essential Papers on the Talmud (Essential Papers on Jewish Studies)
by Michael L Chernick Publisher Comments "For the general reader, and the ever-burgeoning number of students in Jewish studies programs, the Essential Papers series brings together a wealth of core secondary material, while the commentaries offered by the editors aim to place this material in...
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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...
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Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew
by Neil Gillman Synopsis The modern Jew, living in a world of shattered beliefs and competing ideologies, is often confronted with questions of faith. Sacred Fragments is for those who still care enough to continue the struggle. In forthright, nontechnical language the author...
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