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By: Professor Moshe Idel

ISBN: 9780826496652
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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While many aspects of Sonship have been analyzed in books on Judaism, this book attempts to address the category of Sonship in Jewish mystical literature as a whole - a category much more vast than ever imagined. It aims to point out the many instances where Jewish thinkers resorted to concepts of Sonship and their conceptual backgrounds.


(Paperback)

By: Professor Moshe Idel

ISBN: 9780826496669
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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While many aspects of Sonship have been analyzed in books on Judaism, this book attempts to address the category of Sonship in Jewish mystical literature as a whole. It aims to point out the many instances where Jewish thinkers resorted to concepts of Sonship and their conceptual backgrounds.


(Paperback)

By: Yair Lorberbaum

ISBN: 9781441140883
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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A study of the concept of kingship in classical Jewish literature, as well as three approaches to it found in the Bible. It empowers scholars, rabbis, educators and layleaders to develop new and diverse voices within the tradition, laying foundations for the future of Jewish life in Israel and around the world.


(Hardback)

By: Yair Lorberbaum

ISBN: 9781441154293
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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A study of the concept of kingship in classical Jewish literature, as well as three approaches to it found in the Bible. It empowers scholars, rabbis, educators and layleaders to develop new and diverse voices within the tradition, laying foundations for the future of Jewish life in Israel and around the world.


(Hardback)

By: Moshe Halbertal

ISBN: 9780826496676
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Providing readers with insights into Judaism and the Jewish people in contemporary times, the work explores a wide range of issues that includes: the significance of Israel for the future of Judaism; the Jewish people as a people; the relationship between monotheism and violence; revelation and ethics; and, Judaism and the feminist challenge.


(Paperback)

By: Moshe Halbertal

ISBN: 9780826496683
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Providing readers with insights into Judaism and the Jewish people in contemporary times, this work explores a wide range of issues that includes: the significance of Israel for the future of Judaism; the Jewish people as a people; the relationship between monotheism and violence; revelation and ethics; and, Judaism and the feminist challenge.


(Hardback)

By: Professor Israel Knohl

ISBN: 9780826446695
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An exploration of the formation of the conception of 'catastrophic messianism' in the Gabriel Revelation. It features a discussion of the text "The Gabriel Revelation" - an apocalyptic text written on stone at the turn of the Common Era. It explores the formation of the conception of 'catastrophic messianism' in the Gabriel Revelation.


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By: Professor Israel Knohl

ISBN: 9780826425072
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An exploration of the formation of the conception of 'catastrophic messianism' in the Gabriel Revelation. It features a discussion of the text "The Gabriel Revelation" - an apocalyptic text written on stone at the turn of the Common Era. It explores the formation of the conception of 'catastrophic messianism' in the Gabriel Revelation.


(Hardback)

By: Zvi Mark

ISBN: 9780826445162
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Nearly two hundred years since Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav's demise, his philosophical writings and literary creation remain lively and provocative materials in both Jewish culture and the New-Age movement. This work offers a systematic description of the mystical doctrine of one of the most influential thinkers in Jewish mysticism.


(Paperback)

By: Zvi Mark

ISBN: 9780826441447
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Nearly two hundred years since Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav's demise, his philosophical writings and literary creation remain lively and provocative materials in both Jewish culture and the New-Age movement. This work offers a systematic description of the mystical doctrine of one of the most influential thinkers in Jewish mysticism.


(Paperback)

By: Zvi Zohar

ISBN: 9781441133298
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Zvi Zohar

ISBN: 9781441165411
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Professor Moshe Idel

ISBN: 9780826444530
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Provides impressive dossier on the phenomenon of Saturnism, offering an interpretation of aspects of Judaism, including the emergence of Sabbateanism. This title demonstrates that they were instrumental in the conviction that Sabbatei Tzevei, the mid-17th-century messianic figure in Rabbinic Judaism, was indeed the Messiah.


(Hardback)

By: Professor Moshe Idel

ISBN: 9781441121448
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Provides impressive dossier on the phenomenon of Saturnism, offering an interpretation of aspects of Judaism, including the emergence of Sabbateanism. This book analyzes aspects of 20th-century scholarship and thought influenced by Saturnism.


(Hardback)

By: Donniel Hartman

ISBN: 9780826496638
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Aiming to take readers beyond the divisions that characterize modern Jewry, this book explores the ever contentious question of "who is a Jew." It provides insights into how Jewish law has erected boundaries to govern and maintain the collective identity of the Jewish people.


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By: Donniel Hartman

ISBN: 9780826496645
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Aiming to take readers beyond the divisions that characterize modern Jewry, this book explores the ever contentious question of "who is a Jew." It provides insights into how Jewish law has erected boundaries to govern and maintain the collective identity of the Jewish people.


(Hardback)

By: Avi Sagi

ISBN: 9780826496690
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Offers answers to 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 halakhic text.


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By: Avi Sagi

ISBN: 9780826496706
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Offers answers to 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 halakhic text.


(Paperback)

By: Avi Sagi

ISBN: 9781441109736
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Many of Brenner's readers assumed that Brenner completely negated Jewish existence and sought to form a new way of life completely disconnected from the traditional Jewish existence. This book deals with the question of the meaning and rationale that the writer Joseph Chayim Brenner attributes to Jewish existence.


(Hardback)

By: Avi Sagi

ISBN: 9781441195838
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Many of Brenner's readers assumed that Brenner completely negated Jewish existence and sought to form a new way of life completely disconnected from the traditional Jewish existence. This book deals with the question of the meaning and rationale that the writer Joseph Chayim Brenner attributes to Jewish existence.


(Paperback)

By: Avi Sagi

ISBN: 9780826496720
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Of all Judaic rituals, that of giyyur is arguably the most radical: it turns a Gentile into a Jew - once and for all and irrevocably. This title focuses upon a reading of primary halakhic texts from Talmudic times onwards as key to the explication of meaning within the Judaic tradition.


(Hardback)

By: Avi Sagi

ISBN: 9780826496713
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Of all Judaic rituals, that of giyyur is arguably the most radical: it turns a Gentile into a Jew - once and for all and irrevocably. This title focuses upon a reading of primary halakhic texts from Talmudic times onwards as key to the explication of meaning within the Judaic tradition.