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Divine Will and Human Experience illuminates every stage of the halakhic process in a wide variety of contexts and genres. This book is for everyone who wants to understand halakhah deeply and share responsibility for the Torah's role in constructing and governing personal and communal religious lives.

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The importance of dualistic thinking within the "Dead Sea Scrolls" has always been emphasised in "Qumran Studies". This volume assesses issues such as: the origin of Qumran's dualism; the literary growth of the passages in question; and the social/ideological setting of the dualistic passages within the Qumran Library.

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This text argues that the ancient Hebrew worldview, found in the Torah and the Old Testament, is remarkably "green". Its holistic approach and emphasis on the importance of relationships bear a resemblance to ecology and can help re-orient Western thinking without leaving Western tradition.

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This annotated translation of Enchanted Dulcinea by Mexican author Angelina Muiz-Huberman features a narrator traveling through memories, times, and places. The authors mystical novel exemplifies crypto-Judaism and exile in Latin America and highlights her importance in the Sephardic literary tradition.

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This book examines Hebrews use of scripture in light of rabbinic scholar Alexander Samely's underlying exegetical presuppositions, in comparison with other Second Temple and early Jewish writers.

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Using social psychology categories of ethnicity and group-identity, Exclusive Inclusivity explores these internal polemics through the phenomenon of exclusivity, its characteristics and traits.

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Using social psychology categories of ethnicity and group-identity, Exclusive Inclusivity explores these internal polemics through the phenomenon of exclusivity, its characteristics and traits.

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Presents the history of exile and restoration, ideas originating at the intersection of Judaic piety and the social history of the Jews.

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Presents the history of exile and restoration ideas originating at the intersection of Judaic piety and the social history of the Jews. This book describes the distinguishing feature of Jewish thought as a religious hermeneutic in which the promise made to Abraham is preserved not just as a pious memory but as a certain hope for restoration.

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At first glance, Orthodox Judaism may not seem compatible with the world view of egalitarianism, regardless of race, gender or religion. But modern Orthodox Jews share an appreciation for egalitarianism as a positive moral value. This collection of essays explores the affinities and disaffinities between egalitarianism and Jewish tradition.

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This book argues that modern francophone Sephardic novels, mainly from North Africa, draw on oral storytelling as well as modern and postmodern techniques to express the experience of migration, producing innovative imagined portable homelands with which the migrants successfully confront new societies, languages, and cultures.

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This book describes the taste preferences and practices of gastronomic Judaism from ancient to contemporary times. Not merely fixed dietary rules and norms, but rather culinary interpretations and adaptations of them to new times and places makes food Jewish and makes Jewish eating practices continually viable and meaningful.

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This book describes the taste preferences and practices of gastronomic Judaism from ancient to contemporary times. Not merely fixed dietary rules and norms, but rather culinary interpretations and adaptations of them to new times and places makes food Jewish and makes Jewish eating practices continually viable and meaningful.

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Women have shaped Judaism and other religions through their leadership in many different ways. This volume analyzes the historical context, current developments, and personal experiences of women in religious leadership that have redefined not just the role of religion, but also the way women understand themselves.

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This volume presents ten biblical and five non-biblical fragments from the Judean Desert, more than half of them for the first time. The exciting publication of seven new fragments provides a fully up-do-date picture for scholars and gives the reader a comprehensive picture of texts and artefacts from Qumran seen together.

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This volume presents ten biblical and five non-biblical fragments from the Judean Desert, more than half of them for the first time. The exciting publication of seven new fragments provides a fully up-do-date picture for scholars and gives the reader a comprehensive picture of texts and artefacts from Qumran seen together.

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Could the best thing about religion be the heresies it spawns Leading intellectuals in interwar Europe thought so. This book provides novel accounts of three German-Jewish thinkers whose ideas, seminal to fields typically regarded as wildly unrelated, had common origins in debates about heresy between the wars.