Studies in Jewish Myth and Messianism

Yehuda Liebes

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion
• Yehuda Liebes teaches Jewish Mysticism in the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of Studies in the Z... Lees meer

God's Voice from the Void

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion
• Shaul Magid is Elaine Ravitch Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and the coauthor of Reading a Begin... Lees meer

Studies in the Zohar

Yehuda Liebes

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion
• This book deals with the "Book of Splendor" (Sefer ha-Zohar), the greatest achievement of Kabbalah and one of the most influential sources of Western ... Lees meer

Sod Ha-Shabbat

Elliot K Ginsburg

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion
• Elliot K. Ginsburg is Associate Professor in the Judaic and Near East Studies Program and the Department of Religion at Oberlin College. Lees meer

Rav Avraham Itzhak Hacohen Kook

Benjamin Ish-Shalom

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion
• Benjamin Ish-Shalom is on the Faculty of Humanities in the Department of Jewish Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also Rector at... Lees meer

The Paradoxical Ascent to God

Rachel Elior

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion
• This book is a study of the Habad Hasidism movement, an influential part of the Hasidic Movement, which originated in the eigteenth century. Habad was... Lees meer

Gershom Scholem

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion
• Paul Mendes-Flohr is Professor of Jewish Thought and Intellectual History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the co-editor of The Journal of... Lees meer

The Books of Contemplation

Mark Verman

• Paperback | Engels, Hebreeuws | Suny Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion
• The earliest medieval Jewish mystical writings, or kabbalah, date from the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. This is the first book to focu... Lees meer

God's Voice from the Void

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion
• Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav was one of the most celebrated masters of late Jewish mysticism and Hasidism, and his writings have become classics. This vol... Lees meer

The Hidden and Manifest God

Peter Schaefer

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion
• This book represents the first wide-scale presentation and interpretation of pre-kabbalistic, Jewish mysticism. This is the Hekhalot or Merkavah mysti... Lees meer

The Binding of Isaac and Messiah

Agus

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion
• The author provides an interpretation of the words of Jews living during the intertestamental period and through the third century, including several ... Lees meer

Tradition and Fantasy in the Tales of Reb Nahman of Bratslav

Ora Wiskind-Elper

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion
• One of the most radically innovative of Hasidic masters, Reb Nahman of Bratslav transformed images and concepts basic to Jewish thought into new and c... Lees meer

A Rivalry of Genius

Marc Hirshman

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion
• Compares Rabbinic midrash and Patristic exegesis in late antiquity and provides an introduction to the various forms of Patristic literature. Lees meer

Ishmael on the Border

Carol Bakhos

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion
• Carol Bakhos is Professor of Late Antique Judaism at the University of California at Los Angeles and is the editor of Ancient Judaism in its Hellenist... Lees meer

An Episode of Jewish Romanticism

Ernest Rubinstein

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion
• Ernest Rubinstein is Librarian at the Ecumenical Library, The Interchurch Center, New York City and is Instructor at New York University's School of C... Lees meer

Studies in the Zohar

Yehuda Liebes

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion
• This book deals with the "Book of Splendor" (Sefer ha-Zohar), the greatest achievement of Kabbalah and one of the most influential sources of Western ... Lees meer

Problems and Parables of Law

Josef Stern

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion
• A central topic in medieval Jewish philosophy and thought was the explanation of the Mosaic commandments. From Philo and Saadiah on, thinkers sought t... Lees meer

Philosopher and Prophet

Yochanan Silman

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion
• This book is the first to describe the development of Halevi's thought with a view to reaching a better understanding of its inherent systematic diffi... Lees meer

Holiness in Words

Edward K Kaplan

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion
• Holiness in Words: Abraham Joshua Heschel's Poetics of Piety is both an introduction to reading Heschel's works in English, and an in-depth study of t... Lees meer

Between Worlds

Hava Tirosh-Rothschild

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion
• Hava Tirosh-Rothschild is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at Emory University. Lees meer

Studies in Jewish Myth and Messianism

Yehuda Liebes

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion
• This book deals with the nature and development of Jewish myth from the Talmudic period through Kabbalah to Hasidism. It describes the changes in this... Lees meer

Moses Mendelssohn and the Enlightenment

Allan Arkush

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion
• Moses Mendelssohn, the author of numerous works on natural theology and ethics, was also the first modern philosopher of Judaism. This book places Men... Lees meer

An Introduction to the Kabbalah

Moshe Hallamish

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion
• Provides an introduction to the world of the Kabbalah, focusing on both the Kabbalist as a person and the major teachings of the Kabbalah. Lees meer

Between Kant and Kabbalah

Alan L Mittleman

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion
• This is the first full-length, systematic study in English of Isaac Breuer, a founder of Agudat Israel, whose intellectual achievements reflected the ... Lees meer