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Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism #0033: The Talmud of the Land of Israel, Volume 33: Abodah Zarah
by Jacob Neusner  Publisher Comments Edited by the acclaimed scholar Jacob Neusner, this thirty-five volume translation has been hailed by the Jewish Spectator as a "project...of immense benefit to students of rabbinic Judaism."...
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Haman & the Jews
by Elaine R. Glickman Publisher Comments A scholarly, yet accessible, study of Haman, sworn enemy of the Jews, which provides insight into the nature of hatred and evil, as well as reconciliation and triumph. This comprehensive volume discusses what rabbinic literature can teach us about the...
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Parashat Pinchas I (Zohar)
by Shimon Bar Yohai Publisher Comments Perhaps the oldest medical and healing text known to man....
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The Torah and the Halakhah (Studies in Judaism)
by Jacob Neusner Publisher Comments This is a study of the relationship between two cognate religious components of Judaism, the laws of the Pentateuch and the corpus of Halakhah set forth by the Mishnah-Tosefta-Yerushalmi-Bavli....
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Analysis and Argumentation in Rabbinic Judaism (Studies in Judaism)
by Jacob Neusner Publisher Comments Do ubiquitous modes of thought (types of analysis, types of argumentation) pervade the entire corpus of the Rabbinic writings of late antiquity and impart coherence to those diverse documents? Here are the results of a systematic probe of representative...
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The Talmud of the Land of Israel, Volume 4: Kilayim (Talmud of the Land of Israel, a Preliminary Translation & Ex)
by Jacob Neusner Publisher Comments Edited by the acclaimed scholar Jacob Neusner, this thirty-five volume translation has been hailed by the Jewish Spectator as a "project...of immense benefit to students of rabbinic Judaism."...
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Torah with a Twist of Humor
by Joe Bobker Publisher Comments A lively retelling of the bible that follows the weekly reading of the bible in the synagogue. Interspersed are jokes and anecdotes that highlight the author's points....
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Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism #31: The Talmud of the Land of Israel, Volume 31: Sanhedrin and Makkot
by Jacob Neusner Publisher Comments Edited by the acclaimed scholar Jacob Neusner, this thirty-five volume translation has been hailed by the Jewish Spectator as a "project...of immense benefit to students of rabbinic Judaism."...
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Why This, Not That? (Studies in Judaism)
by Jacob Neusner Publisher Comments This book concerns the definition of the category-formations of the Halakhah, which are defined by the Mishnah: why these, not others? The question breaks into two parts: why the particular method that is identified as the generative hermeneutics of the...
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Holy Beggars Banquet
by Kalman Serkez Publisher Comments In 1967, Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach established the House of Love and Prayer, an outreach center for Jewish spiritual seekers located in San Francisco. One of its activities was the publication of The Holy Beggars' Gazette, a gathering of Jewish wisdom...
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Biblical Perspectives: Early Use & Interpretation of the Bible in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Proceedings of the First International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scro
by Orion Center For The Study Of The Dead S Publisher Comments This volume explores the use and interpretation of the Bible in the Dead Sea Scrolls and associated apocryphal, early Christian and rabbinic literature.<BR>Interpretive interests, techniques and traditions are examined in many types of ancient...
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The Dream of Tomorrow
by Bela Fischer Publisher Comments The pages of the Bible speak to us today through the lively and colorful imagination of Rabbi Bela Fischer. Genesis 49 offers only the most basic details of Jacob's blessing of his sons -- but what was said "between the lines"? Combining the techniques...
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Where Heaven & Earth Touch
by Danny Siegel Publisher Comments This volume presents a carefully chosen and translated selection of passages from classical Jewish texts....
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Pseudepigraphic Perspectives: The Apogrypha & Pseudepigrapha in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Proceedings of the International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls & As
by Esther G. Chazon Publisher Comments This volume of symposium papers examines the attribution of books to great figures in antiquity: Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Levi, Moses, Ezekiel, Daniel and others.<BR>The authors offer fine literary studies of these pseudepigraphical writings, assess...
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Open Canon: On the Meaning of Halakhic Discourse
by Avi Sagi Publisher Comments This book outlines the broad spectrum of answers to important questions presented in Jewish literature, covering theological issues bearing on the meaning of the Torah and of revelation, as well as hermeneutical questions regarding understanding of the...
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The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated: the Qumran Texts in English
by Florentino Garcia Martinez Publisher Comments One of the world's foremost experts on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Qumran community that produced them provides an authoritative new English translation of the two hundred longest and most important nonbiblical Dead Sea Scrolls found at Qumran, along...
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Heschel Tradition
by Moshe Brown Publisher Comments Teachings on verses of the weekly Torah portion and anecdotes from his life....
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Textual Development of the Qumran Community Rule
by Sarianna Metso Publisher Comments This volume is concerned with tracing the different stages in the formation of the Qumran Community Rule in the light of the material from Cave 4 that has only recently become available. The first part of this ground-breaking work is devoted to...
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Laws of the Damascus Document: Sources, Tradition, & Redaction
by Charlotte Hempel Publisher Comments The Damascus Document is one of the key texts to have been discovered in both spectacular Jewish manuscript discoveries of the 20 th century: the Cairo Genizah and the Dead Sea Scrolls. The legal part of this document has until recently received little...
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Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism #0026: The Talmud of the Land of Israel, Volume 26: Qiddushin
by Jacob Neusner Publisher Comments Edited by the acclaimed scholar Jacob Neusner, this thirty-five volume translation has been hailed by the Jewish Spectator as a "project...of immense benefit to students of rabbinic Judaism."...
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