Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians

Geoffrey Herman

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism in Context
• The Sasanian Empire was home to many religious communities. It was also a place of meeting and transformation. It was where old religions met more rec... Lees meer

Jewish and Roman Law

Boaz Cohen

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism in Context | nr. 21
• Classical rabbinic law grew up in the shadow of the Roman empire, and must be understood in relationship to its legal legacy. Yet few, especially in t... Lees meer

All Is in the Hands of Heaven

Morris M Faierstein

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism in Context | nr. 3
• Mordecai Joseph Leiner of Izbica was a unique thinker in the history of Hasidism with a highly personal vision of Judaism. His teachings, partially de... Lees meer

The Scholastic Culture of the Babylonian Talmud

Noah Bickart

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism in Context | nr. 31
• The Scholastic Culture of the Babylonian Talmud studies how and in what cultural context the Talmud began to take shape in the scholastic centers of r... Lees meer

Jewish-Christian Conversation in Fourth-Century Persian Mesopotamia

Naomi Koltun-Fromm

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism in Context
• Was there an active Jewish-Christian polemic in fourth-century Persia? Aphrahat's Demonstrations, a fourth-century adversus Judaeos text, clearly indi... Lees meer

Second Slayings

David N Gottlieb

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism in Context | nr. 24
• This work is a study of Jewish cultural memory as exemplified by rabbinic midrash of the Amoraic period, the second through fifth centuries of the Com... Lees meer

Re-Presenting Texts

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism in Context
• This is the fifth issue of Proceedings of the Midrash Section at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature published in this series, an... Lees meer

The Rabbis' King-Parables

Alan Appelbaum

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism in Context
• The Rabbis' King-Parables: Midrash From the Third-Century Roman Empire examines the ancient Rabbis at work using parables about kings; parables that r... Lees meer

Perils of Wisdom

Sheila Keiter

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism in Context | nr. 28
• Perils of Wisdom engages the biblical Solomon narrative that appears in the Book of Kings and its reception by Jewish texts from scriptural sources th... Lees meer

First Came Marriage

Susan Marks

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism in Context
• Ritual and historical perspectives each provide only a partial view of early Jewish weddings. Combining these approaches allows for a new look at prac... Lees meer

Noble Soul

Joseph H Prouser, J Prouser

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism in Context | nr. 1
• In the long history of conversion to Judaism, few figures rival the affection and esteem with which Count Walenty (Valentine) Potocki, the martyred "V... Lees meer

In and Around Maimonides

Y Y Langermann

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism in Context | nr. 25
• In and Around Maimonides presents eight highly focused studies on Moses Maimonides and those around him. "In Maimonides" refers to close readings of p... Lees meer

The Stories They Tell

Judith Hauptman

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism in Context | nr. 32
• In this engaging book of commentary on the Talmud, the author upends the long-held theory of the immutability of halakhah, Jewish law. In her detailed... Lees meer

Maimonides

Shalom Sadik

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism in Context | nr. 30
• Was Maimonides a radical philosopher who subtly argued for a naturalist world and who saw the obligation to keep the Torah's commandments as a social ... Lees meer

Torah is a Hidden Treasure

W. David, Rivka Ulmer

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism in Context | nr. 22
• The chapters in Torah is a Hidden Treasure pertain to authorship in Seder Eliyahu Rabba and Pirqe deRabi Eliezer, natural law and Israel's statutes, M... Lees meer

Pragmatic Studies in Judaism

Aviram Ravitsky

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism in Context
• This book is the first attempt to apply formal pragmatics to Judaic studies as a discipline under the auspices of cultural studies, reconstructing the... Lees meer

Emerging Horizons. 21st Century Approaches to the Study of Midrash

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism in Context | nr. 26
• The chapters in Emerging Horizons: 21st Century Approaches to the Study of Midrash pertain to an intriguing midrash that appears in a Masoretic contex... Lees meer

How Should Rabbinic Literature Be Read in the Modern World?

Matthew Kraus

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism in Context | nr. 4
• Through literary, historical, archaeological, and engendered readings, this collection of essays presents a multidisciplinary analysis of rabbinic tex... Lees meer

Judaic Logic

Tzvee Zahavy

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism in Context
• Judaic reasoning is discussed from the standpoint of modern logic. Andrew Schumann defines Judaic logic, traces Aristotelian influence on developing J... Lees meer

Jewish and Roman Law

Boaz Cohen

• Hardcover | Engels | Judaism in Context | nr. 21
• Classical rabbinic law grew up in the shadow of the Roman empire, and must be understood in relationship to its legal legacy. Yet few, especially in t... Lees meer