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Rabbinic Stories (02 Edition)
by Jeffrey L. Rubenstein  Publisher Comments Stories from the main works of classical rabbinic literature, which were produced by Jewish sages in either Hebrew or Aramaic, between 200 and 600 CE....
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The Boy on the Door on the Ox: An Unusual Spiritual Journey Through the Strangest Jewish Texts
by Martin Samuel Cohen Synopsis The Mishnah, an ancient Jewish text composed around 200 c.e., is the foundation document of rabbinic law. In this groundbreaking work, Martin Samuel Cohen explores texts from the Mishnah as a foundation document of Jewish spirituality, Using the Mishnah...
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Women of the Torah
by Barbara L. Thaw Ronson Publisher Comments This book examines through the lens of the ancient Talmudic, Midrashic, and Kabbalistic commentaries the scriptural passages related to our ancestral mothers, wives, and daughters. Excerpts seek to illuminate clearly the question of what it may mean to...
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Zohar: The Book of Enlightenment (Classics of Western Spirituality)
by Daniel Matt Publisher Comments This is the first translation with commentary of selections from the Zohar, the major text of the Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition. This work was written in 13th-century Spain by Moses de Leon, a Spanish scholar....
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Yemenite Midrash: Philosophical Commentaries on the Torah: an Anthology of Writings From the Golden: Philosophical Commentaries on the Torah: an Antho (Sacred Literature)
by Y. Tzvi Langermann Publisher Comments The fourteenth to sixteenth centuries were the most vibrant period in the intellectual history of the Yemeni Jews. By rooting themselves firmly in the tradition of the great philosopher Maimonides, they found that the Hebrew Bible contained philosophical...
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Essential Papers on Kabbalah (Essential Papers on Jewish Studies)
by Lawrence Fine Publisher Comments As recently as 1915, when the legendary scholar of Jewish mysticism Gershom Scholem sought to find someone—anyone—to teach him Kabbalah, the study of Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah was largely neglected and treated with disdain. Today, this...
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Torah Journeys: The Inner Path to the Promised Land
by Shefa Gold Synopsis The Torah is the map. You are the territory. Each weekly Torah portion brings us a blessing, a challenge and an opportunity for spiritual transformation. An inspiring guide to finding your way through the landscape of Torah... and finding the Torah in...
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Mekhilta de-Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai: Edward E. Elson Classic
by W. David (edt) Nelson Publisher Comments A timeless collection of midrash never before available in English The Mekhilta de-Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai is a collection of classical midrashic interpretation of the biblical Book of Exodus. Lost for centuries, the text was reconstructed and recovered...
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Kabbalah and the Art of Being: The Smithsonian Lectures
by Shimon Shokek Publisher Comments Shokek introduces Kabbalah as a spiritual Jewish way of living and suggests that the central ingredient in the spiritual teachings of Jewish mysticism is to be found in the Kabbalistic theme of Creation. He argues that it is not just a religious...
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The Biblical Creation Narrative: A Study in Interpretation
by Martin Sicker Publisher Comments This study of the biblical creation narrative, and the wide variety of ways in which it has been interpreted over more than two millennia, is based on the thesis that, notwithstanding its mythopoeic presentation, the essential purpose of the biblical...
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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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Tanakh-FL: The Holy Scriptures
by Jewish Publication S Synopsis Our best-selling cloth edition of the Tanakh is now available in your choice of formats, with new cover colors and textures to choose from! Regarded throughout the English-speaking world as the standard English translation of the Holy Scriptures, the JPS...
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Alchemy of the Word: Cabala of the Renaissance
by Philip Beitchman Book News Annotation Building upon Deleuze-Guarttari's nomadolgy, the work of Gershom Scholem and others, Beitchman--author of I am a Process With No Subject--treats the presumed secret, oral supplement that Moses received in conjunction with the inscribed Decalogue...
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Talmud Jmmanue
by Judas Ischarioth Publisher Comments Jerusalem, 1963 ? A Greek Catholic priest, Isa Rashid, discovers a small cave in the slope of a nearby hill. His Swiss friend, ?Billy? Eduard Albert Meier, removes the rubble partially obscuring the entryway, crawls inside, and exhumes a set of ancient...
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Tanakh-FL: The Jewish Bible
by Jewish Publication Society Synopsis Our best-selling cloth edition of the Tanakh is now available in your choice of formats, with new cover colors and textures to choose from! Regarded throughout the English-speaking world as the standard English translation of the Holy Scriptures, the JPS...
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Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah #35: Sapiental, Liturgical and Poetical Texts from Qumran: Proceedings of the Third Meeting of the International Organization for Qumran Studies, Oslo 1998
by Daniel K. Falk Publisher Comments At the third meeting of the International Organisation for Qumran Studies, held in Oslo in 1998, a variety of papers were presented concerning the study of the Sapiential, Liturgical and Poetical Texts from Qumran. The fourteen papers selected for this...
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Punishment and Freedom: The Rabbinic Construction of Criminal Law (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)
by Devora Steinmetz Publisher Comments In Punishment and Freedom, Devora Steinmetz offers a fresh look at classical rabbinic texts about criminal law from the perspective of legal and moral philosophy. Steinmetz holds that the criminal and judicial procedures they describe were never designed...
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Jewish Tales of Holy Women
by Yitzhak Buxbaum Publisher Comments What is a "holy woman," or a holy man for that matter? According to the Jewish mystics, a holy person is someone who has not lost the holiness that every baby is born with. A holy person is someone who fulfills it. Stories about Jewish holy women have...
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Understanding the Afterlife in This Life
by Bernie Kastner Publisher Comments How Judaism looks at the Afterlife, with primary sources and an overvfiew of ancient concepts of the...
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Hermit Kingdom Studies in Christianity and Judaism #2: Jewish Law and Identity: Academic Essays
by H C Kim Publisher Comments JEWISH LAW AND IDENTITY is the second book in the Hermit Kingdom Studies in Christianity and Judaism, an academic monograph series in Hebrew, Jewish, and Early Christian Studies. This book contains 9 academic essays relating to the theme of Jewish law...
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