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This volume provides fresh scholarly insight into numerous Second Temple texts, encompassing apocalyptic themes and text-critical challenges.

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Argues that the impact of technology-enhanced mass death in the twentieth century has affected the future shape of religious thought. This book shows how key Jewish theologians faced the memory of Auschwitz by rejecting traditional theodicy, abandoning any attempt to justify and vindicate the relationship between God and catastrophic suffering.

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In 850 Intriguing Questions about Judaism: True, False, or In Between, Ronald L. Eisenberg explores a wide range of Jewish teachings and practices, discussing the degree to which they are true, false or a bit of both.

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A comprehensive and accessible guide for the general reader, that outlines the major ideas and history of over 5,000 years of Jewish faith and thinking.

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"Etienne Nodet examines how Qumran functioned as a major pilgrimage site for the Essenes"--

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Offering a guide to the principles, rituals, and practice of Jewish prayer, this book is written by one of the world's leading rabbis. He discusses prayers for every occasion - from everyday petitions to holiday rites - and also answers questions about Jewish holidays, scriptural readings, the role of the rabbi and cantor.

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Doron Mendels identifies 300 rules/codes of conduct for international relations in the Hellenistic period, against the background of early Christianity and Judaism.

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A Jewish Public Theology draws from Jewish law and political science to address the most searing current policy issues. It goes beyond the current orthodoxies of left, right, and populist ideologies to examine how an ancient tradition speaks to the disruptions of our global epoch.

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A new critical approach to Jewish thinking and praxis, drawing upon key thinkers such as Adorno, Wittgenstein, Godel, Heidegger and Celan.

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Offers a critical approach to Jewish thinking and praxis, drawing upon key thinkers such as Adorno, Wittgenstein, Godel, Heidegger and Celan. This book explores how Adorno's ruminations on the essence of music can lead to an understanding of how the metaphysics of music temporality can redeem thinking and thus religion.

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The preeminent scholar Jonathan Sarna reflects on identity, family, and faith in this accessible introduction to the American Jewish experience.

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Questions the foundations of faith that have made a virtue out of the willingness to sacrifice a child. This book offers a perspective on what unites and divides the peoples of the sibling religions derived from Abraham and, implicitly, a way to overcome the violence among them.

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Taking readers from the 19th century to today, the author shows how Buddhism in the U.S. has given rise to new contemplative forms within American Judaism and shaped the way Americans understand and practice Buddhism.

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This book tells the dramatic but little-known story of how a group of Americans of all religions worked, often in secret and facing the possibility of arrest, to make sure that after the Holocaust a refuge for Jews would be born. From raising money to political efforts, these Americans made a decisive difference in the creation of Israel.

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Provides historical background an explains the meaning of rituals in the Jewish American community.

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Even if one has never read any Judaic literature, he or she will have some notion of what it is after reading this book.

This book is written for the vast majority of adults who either attend synagogue or have a general interest in Judaism, whether Jewish or not.

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This book surveys within the various literary genres (cosmologies, personal archives and epics, hymns, and prayers) parallels between the Bible and Ancient Near Eastern literature.