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In the Light of the Menorah: Story of a Symbol
by Yael Israeli  Publisher Comments This stunning volume, filled with color and black and white photographs, presents a unique history of the menorah, from the earliest days of the Israelites to the time of the Second Temple, to the menorah's ties with contemporary Jewish art and the State...
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The Pirkei Avos Treasury
by Lieber Publisher Comments SRS The sages guide to living with an anthologized commentary and anecdotes....
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Wisdom Texts from Qumran
by Daniel J. Harrington Publisher Comments This study is the first full analysis of the Qumran wisdom texts. Translations and a full explanation of the background and context of wisdom literature introduce the reader to an important and hitherto little-discussed part of the Dead Sea Scrolls...
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Reading the Rabbis: The Talmud as Literature
by David Kraemer Publisher Comments Traditionally, the Talmud was read as law, that is, as the authoritative source for Jewish practice and obligations. To this end, it was studied at the level of its most minute details, with readers often ignoring the composite whole and attending only...
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The Mind of the Talmud: An Intellectual History of the Bavli
by David Charles Kraemer Publisher Comments This book traces the development of the literary forms and conventions of the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli. The Bavli, which evolved between the third and sixth centuries in Sasanian Iran (Babylonia), is one of the most comprehensive of all documents...
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Finding Our Way: Jewish Texts and the Lives We Lead Today
by Barry W Holtz Publisher Comments The ancient rabbis believed that the world rests on three pillars: study, worship, and good deeds. It is said that the greatest of these is study, for it leads to the other two. But exactly how does the modern Jewish reader go about studying the Mishnah,...
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Everyman's Talmud: The Major Teachings of the Rabbinic Sages
by Abraham Cohen Synopsis The First Comprehensive Summary, for the English Reader, of the Teaching of the Talmud and the Rabbis on Ethics, Religion, Folk-lore and Jurisprudence. Cohen does an excellent job of presenting the origins of Talmudic literature and summarizing in a...
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Living Torah: Selections from Seven Years of Torat Chayim
by Elaine Rose Glickman Publisher Comments EAch week since 1996, thousands of Internet-savvy Torah students have logged on to read thoughts on the week's parashah by scholars in the Reform Movement--rabbis, cantors, educators, and laypeople. Now these 180+ divrei Torah, examining each parashah...
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Midrash and Context (Proceedings of the 2004 and 2005 Sbl Consultation on Midrash)
by Society Of Biblical Literature Synopsis A collection of seven groundbreaking essays on Rabbinic midrash and related texts by a new generation of erudite scholars combining the themes of the 2004 and 2005 SBL midrash sessions: "Jewish and Christian Hermeneutics" and "Midrash and Cultural...
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Beginner's Guide To the Steinsaltz Talmud (99 Edition)
by Judith Z. Abrams Publisher Comments In A Beginner's Guide to The Steinsaltz Talmud, Rabbi Judith Z. Abrams selects a fascinating and provocative section from the Talmud and helps students to reap the vast rewards that can be achieved when one encounters Rabbi Steinsaltz's historic, ground...
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Revelation Restored: Divine Writ and Critical Responses
by David Weiss Halivni Publisher Comments Modern critical scholars divide the Pentateuch into distinct components, identifying areas of unevenness in the scriptural tradition, which point to several interwoven documents rather than one immaculate whole. While the conclusions reached by such...
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Perspectives on Maimonides: Philosophical & Historical Studies
by Joel L. Kraemer Publisher Comments 'For many years to come it is likely to remain a major reference volume for students of Maimonides.' Sarah Stroumsa, Jewish Quarterly Review 'These studies, however disparate, provide us with convincing evidence of the continuing importance of Maimonides'...
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Alchemy and Kabblah
by Gershom Scholem Publisher Comments A classic text on alchemy by the leading scholar of Jewish mysticism, Gershom Scholem, is presented here for the first time in English translation. Scholem looks critically at the century-old connections between alchemy, the Jewish Kabbalah; its...
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The Self as Symbolic Space: Constructing Identity and Community at Qumran
by Carol A. Newsom Publisher Comments This volume investigates critical practices by which the Qumran community constituted itself as a sectarian society. Key to the formation of the community was the reconstruction of the identity of individual members. In this way the self became an...
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The Essential Zohar: The Source of Kabbalistic Wisdom
by Rav P S Berg Publisher Comments For thousands of years, no book has been more shrouded in mystery than the Zohar, yet no book offers us greater wisdom. The central text of Kabbalah, the Zohar is a commentary on the Bible's narratives, laws, and genealogies and a map of the spiritual...
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The Genesis of Leadership: What the Bible Teaches Us about Visions, Values and Leading Change
by Nathan Laufer Publisher Comments In this inspiring guidebook, Rabbi Nathan Laufer exposes the first book of the Bible as the genesis of leadership, containing and confronting the issues of trust, relationship, vision and persuasiveness with which modern-day leaders must contend. Along...
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What Is Talmud?: The Art of Disagreement
by Sergey Dolgopolski Publisher Comments True disagreements are very hard to achieve. Yet, they are even harder to maintain, for the ghost of final agreement constantly hunts and dissipates them. Nevertheless, the Babylonian Talmud stands as a shining example of escape from that ghost. Hence...
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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....
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Responses to 101 Questions on the Dead Sea Scrolls
by Joseph A. Fitzmyer Publisher Comments Questions and answers that people ask today about the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, their contents, their significance, and recent developments about them -- written by an expert who has worked on the scrolls from the beginning....
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Discussing Cultural Influences: Text, Context, and Non-Text in Rabbinic Judaism
by Rivka Ulmer Publisher Comments Discussing Cultural Influences contextualizes Rabbinic Judaism by emphasizing that the framers of Rabbinic thought were in conversation with cultures different from their own as much as with their own tradition. In a series of seven essays, presented...
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