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By: Yitzhak Buxbaum

ISBN: 9781568210490
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2000
Publisher: Jason Aronson Publishers
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Weaves together the various stories about Hillel along with his teachings and sayings.


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By: Asaf Yedidya

ISBN: 9781793637543
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The Life and Thought of Zeev Jawitz combines three interesting disciplines and ideologies: Orthodoxy, Nationalism, and Jewish Studies. This biography by Asaf Yedidya reflects the tension between these ideologies as a central arena for Judaism's encounter with modernity.


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By: Yitzhak Buxbaum

ISBN: 9780826418883
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Features the life, in stories, of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov (1700-1760), the founder of Hasidism. The Baal Shem Tov, or the Besht, as he is commonly called, led a revival in Judaism that put love and joy at the center of religious life and championed the piety of the common folk against the rabbinic establishment.


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By: Malka Simkovich

ISBN: 9781498542425
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Interest in Jewish universalism is on the rise, yet scholars lack a common definition of the concept. This book advocates for a common definition of universalism as it applies to an Early Jewish context and traces the origins of Jewish universalist thought from the prophetic literature of the Hebrew Bible through the period of the Second Temple.


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By: Alan T. Levenson

ISBN: 9781442205178
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The Making of the Modern Jewish Bible explains how Jewish translators, commentators, and scholars made the Bible a keystone of Jewish life in Germany, Israel and America. In each site, a particular need-religion, nationalism, ethnicity-drove the enterprise of Bible study as sc...


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By: Dr. Katie J. Woolstenhulme

ISBN: 9780567696847
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dr Peter Flint

ISBN: 9780567084682
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls, two of the world's leading experts reveal the complete and fascinating story in all its detail: the amazing discovery, the intense controversies, and the significant revelations.


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By: Gershom Scholem

ISBN: 9780805210439
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1991
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: Philip Alexander

ISBN: 9780567040824
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Michael Chyutin

ISBN: 9781850756835
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 1997
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: David L. Graizbord

ISBN: 9781498580472
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book analyzes American Jewish millennials and explains their behavior in terms of the history of American Jewishness. The author shows that Zionism serves as a means by which American Jewish millennials department from earlier American Judaism and construct alternate sense of purpose and solidarity.


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By: David L. Graizbord

ISBN: 9781498580458
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book analyzes American Jewish millennials and explains their behavior in terms of the history of American Jewishness. The author shows that Zionism serves as a means by which American Jewish millennials department from earlier American Judaism and construct alternate sense of purpose and solidarity.


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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.


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By: Peter Schfer

ISBN: 9780691142159
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The Merkavah movement is widely recognized as the first full-fledged expression of Jewish mysticism, one that had important ramifications for classical rabbinic Judaism. This title offers a look at the history of Jewish mysticism from the book of "Ezekiel" to the Merkavah mysticism of late antiquity.


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By: Father Etienne Nodet

ISBN: 9780567709660
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"Examines the religion of the Samaritans, showing that far from being a degraded form of Judaism, the Samaritans represented the most ancient version of Israelite religion"--


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By: Father Etienne Nodet

ISBN: 9780567709707
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"Examines the religion of the Samaritans, showing that far from being a degraded form of Judaism, the Samaritans represented the most ancient version of Israelite religion"--


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By: Yaacob Dweck

ISBN: 9780691145082
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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From its medieval beginnings as an esoteric form of Jewish mysticism, Kabbalah spread throughout the early modern world and became a central feature of Jewish life. This book describes the debate between kabbalists and their critics on the nature of Judaism and the meaning of religious tradition.


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By: Yaacob Dweck

ISBN: 9780691162157
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The Scandal of Kabbalah is the first book about the origins of a culture war that began in early modern Europe and continues to this day: the debate between kabbalists and their critics on the nature of Judaism and the meaning of religious tradition. From its medieval beginnings as an esoteric form of Jewish mysticism, Kabbalah spread throughout th


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By: The Rev. Dr. Paul Swarup

ISBN: 9780567043849
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A study of two metaphors, 'an eternal planting' and 'a house of holiness', which were used extensively by the DSS Community in expression of their self-understanding. These two metaphors appear to be quite distinct at first sight, but on closer examination they are seen to convey many complementary theological ideas.


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By: Sarianna Metso

ISBN: 9780567040923
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Discusses the central rule documents, called "Serek" texts, produced by a Jewish community of the Essenes that lived at Qumran by the Dead Sea. The texts describe the life of an ascetic group that had rejected the hellenistic mainstream Jewish culture and had withdrawn into the desert to live a life of perfect obedience to the Torah.


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By: Dow Marmur

ISBN: 9780313276040
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1991
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The Jews' return to the land of Israel has great religious significance in that halakhah, the Jewish legal tradition, has been superceded by mitzvah, the Jews' covenantal response to divine call, as the cohesive force in contemporary Jewish life.


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By: Jacky Comforty

ISBN: 9781793632913
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book collects narratives of Bulgarian Jews who survived the Holocaust. Through eye-witness testimonies, archival documents, photographs, and researchers investigations, the stories counter official accounts and corroborate war crimes.


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By: Dr Geza Vermes

ISBN: 9780141046150
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The discovery of the "Dead Sea Scrolls" in Qumran, between 1947 and 1956, was one of the greatest archaeological finds of all time. In this book, the author relates the controversial story of their discovery around the world, revealing cover-ups, blunders and academic in-fighting, but also the passion and dedication of many of those involved.

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