Halakhic Hermeneutics

Jacob Neusner

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Judaism
• This book presents an inductive account, through systematic inquiry into data, of the hermeneutics of the principal documents of Rabbinic Judaism. It ... Lees meer

Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism

Jacob Neusner

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Judaism | nr. 7
• This collection of essays draws on work done in 2010-2011. The author takes up several topics in the systemic analysis of Judaism, its literature, and... Lees meer

The Rabbinic Utopia

Jacob Neusner

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Judaism
• This book expounds upon the Utopian vision of Rabbinic Judaism in its classical documents. Rabbinic Judaism carries forward, and itself forms, a massi... Lees meer

Institutionalized Learning in America

Allan Ornstein

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Judaism
• Despite the vast amount of research on teaching, very little of it has related overall theoretical perspectives to general principles of teaching and ... Lees meer

A Theological Commentary to the Midrash

Jacob Neusner

• Hardcover | Studies in Judaism
• Pesqita deRab Kahana constitutes a whole that vastly exceeds the sum of the parts. The theology of the document is stated by that whole, on its own bu... Lees meer

Studies in the Judicial Methodology of Rabbi David ibn Abi Zimra

Samuel Morell

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Judaism
• This work investigates Rabbi David ibn Abi Zimra (Radbaz), a leading 16th century rabbinic authority who assumed the role of rendering 'just' decision... Lees meer

Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism, Eighth Series

Jacob Neusner

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Judaism
• This collection of essays draws on work done in 2011-¬2012. The author takes up several topics in the systemic analysis of Judaism, its literature, an... Lees meer

The Babylonian Talmud

Judith Z Abrams

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Judaism
• The Babylonian Talmud is often cited as the bedrock upon which Judaism stands. And yet, it remains a closed book for the majority of Jews. Since the T... Lees meer

Praxis and Parable

Jacob Neusner

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Judaism | nr. 174
• Judaism's two native categories, narrative theology and law (also known as parable and praxis or Aggadah and Halakhah) form two distinct modes of disc... Lees meer

The Emergence of Judaism

Jacob Neusner

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Judaism
• The latest in Jacob Neusner's informative series on the theology and hermeneutics of Rabbinical Judaism, The Emergence of Judaism offers insight into ... Lees meer

Analysis and Argumentation in Rabbinic Judaism

Jacob Neusner

• Hardcover | Studies in Judaism
• Do ubiquitous modes of thought (types of analysis, types of argumentation) pervade the entire corpus of the Rabbinic writings of late antiquity and im... Lees meer

If the Egyptians Drowned in the Red Sea Where are Pharaoh's Chariots?

Benjamin Edidin Scolnic

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Judaism
• In a series of readable essays written in an engaging manner and a positive mode, author Benjamin Edidin Scolnic evaluates the biblical texts in the l... Lees meer

A Theological Commentary to the Midrash

Jacob Neusner

• Hardcover | Studies in Judaism
• This theological commentary to the Rabbinic Midrash explores a simple proposition, in three parts. I. The reading of Scripture by principal parts of t... Lees meer

Alcimus, Enemy of the Maccabees

Benjamin Edidin Scolnic

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Judaism
• Known mainly because of the holiday of Hanukkah, the Maccabean era is a fascinating and significant period of history that is vital to our understandi... Lees meer

Let Me See Your Form

Phillip D Roberts

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Judaism | nr. 173
• This study tackles the problem of the Song of Song's structure by beginning at the bottom, the microstructure of the Song, rather than at the top. By ... Lees meer

A Quest for a Theology of Judaism

Manfred H Vogel

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Judaism
• This collection attempts to trace the main outline of an essential strand within the structure of faith of Judaism that lends Judaism distinctiveness)... Lees meer

How Important Was the Destruction of the Second Temple in the Formation of Rabbinic Judaism?

Jacob Neusner

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Judaism | nr. 175
• The destruction of the First Temple (586 B.C.E.), destruction of the Second Temple (70 C.E.), and the defeat of the Bar Kokhba (132-135 C.E.) are disc... Lees meer

Kabbalah and Postmodernism

Sandford L Drob

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Judaism | nr. 3
• Kabbalah and Postmodernism: A Dialogue challenges certain long-held philosophical and theological beliefs, including the assumptions that the insights... Lees meer

The Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus and the Death, Burial, and Translation of Moses in Judaic Tradition

Roger David Aus

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Judaism
• A widespread early Palestinian Jewish saying was 'As the first redeemer of Israel, so the last redeemer of Israel': as Moses, so the Messiah. This was... Lees meer

The Documentary History of Judaism and Its Recent Interpreters

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Judaism
• The result for the history of Judaism of a documentary reading of the Rabbinic canonical sources illustrates the working of that hypothesis. It is the... Lees meer

The Rabbis and the Prophets

Jacob Neusner

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Judaism
• This book shows how the Rabbis of late antiquity took over writings from what they recognized as ancient times and of divine origin and they re-presen... Lees meer

The Rabbis, the Law, and the Prophets

Jacob Neusner

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Judaism
• Here is an answer to the question, what do we learn about the Rabbinic system from its encounter with the Prophetic books? This book analyzes the way ... Lees meer

Collected Essays on Philosophy and on Judaism

Marvin Fox

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Judaism | nr. 1
• The three volumes of Collected Essays on Philosophy and on Judaism by Marvin Fox (former President of the Association of Jewish Studies) present Fox's... Lees meer

Spirituality and Law

Abraham Gross

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Judaism
• Spirituality and Law is an in-depth evaluation of martyrdom impulses in Christianity and Judaism. Author Abraham Gross analyzes the spiritual yearning... Lees meer