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This book analyses the role of music in processes of religious change in contemporary progressive Judaism. Based on ethnographic research conducted in London, it illustrates a growing trend among progressive Jews in the West today: the desire to combine liberal theology with forms of practice experienced as more traditional.

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Zohar, or 'brilliant light,' is the central text of Kabbalah. In Jewish mystical tradition, it is the meeting of midrash (storytelling that expands on events in the Bible) and myth. This selection offers translations of eight of the well developed narratives in the Zohar along with notes and detailed commentary.

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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.

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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.

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Ambra Suriano analyses the narrators techniques, exploring the influence of the readers understanding and playing with their interpretative freedom in recounting particular episodes in the Book of Genesis. She argues that a synchronic analysis of the text uncovers a series of binary oppositions that characterise the narrative world of Mamre and Sodom.

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Nationalizing Judaism studies the transformation of Jewish themes, historical myths, biblical metaphors, and theological visions into a national interpretationthe Zionist movement and the Israeli state.

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Fifty years after the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls there have been many advances in the field of Qumran Studies. Yet much work remains undone. In particular the study of the scrolls has continued to follow long established historical critical methods while largely failing to incorporate recent advances in literary, ideological and sociological approaches.

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No masters but God constitutes an in-depth study in the writings of a transnational constellation of rabbis, scholars, activists, and theologians active during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It explores how, through the lense of biblical, rabbinic, and kabbalistic literature, they developed themes of anti-authoritarianism, antinomianism, nationalism, and pacifism.

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A study in the writings of a transnational constellation of rabbis, scholars, activists, and theologians active during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It explores how, through the lense of biblical, rabbinic, and kabbalistic literature, they developed themes of anti-authoritarianism, antinomianism, nationalism, and pacifism.

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The book brings together the essays on Second Temple Judaism by Moshe Weinfeld, one of the leading figures in comparative literature and the history of religion in ancient Near Eastern studies.

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International contributors describe in this volume the manifold theological, legal, sociological and psychological aspects to the phenomenon of the new children of Abraham, and people who have confronted this issue in their own lives tell their stories.

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Welcomes us into a world where creativity, pleasure and embracing difference are shown to be the foundation for an authentic and committed religious life. This book presents - on topics ranging from parenting a son with Down syndrome to Biblical criticism to Talmudic interpretation of dreams - a perspective on Torah.

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The Kabbalah is a rich tradition of repeated attempts to achieve and portray direct experiences of God. This book examines its twelfth-and thirteenth-century beginnings in southern France and Spain. It is of interest to historians and psychologists, and students of the history of religion.

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Surveying some of the major Rabbinic and lay personalities who have shaped Judaism in America for the past two centuries, this study focuses upon Orthodox Judaism. It also offers a basic description of the achievements of some of the most notable leaders and a bibliography of their writings.

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"Diverse contextual readings of the Psalms, followed by short reflective commentaries"--

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This study tests the alternative to the theory that the Dead Sea Scrolls emanate from the Essene community. It advances the theory that the Qumran community continues the haburah of the first century B.C., and that it is closer in custom to the old haburah than is the Rabbinic community.

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