Eryl W. Davies enhances understanding of the ethical issues embedded in the stories concerning Abraham in Genesis 12-25. He focuses on the ethics of deception in Gen. 12:10-20 and 20:1-18 and the dark side of the character of God,...Daugiau...
In the past Graddon has written on SS officer Otto Rahn, Jack the Ripper, Pythagorus of Samos and the mythical land of Magonia. Now Graddon gives an esoteric journey across the ancient world in the guise of Teachings from the Flying A. He begins wi...Daugiau...
In a ground-breaking monograph-length examination of the medieval kabbalah, scholars Avishai Bar-Asher and Jeremy Phillip Brown examine the intellectual insights of Moses de León, presumed author of the Zohar. Through cutting-edge research and analy...Daugiau...
This book thoroughly examines Genizah fragments of Tractate Eruvin in the Babylonian Talmud from Cambridge University Librarys Taylor Schechter collection. While previous research has focused on cataloging and categorizing the fragments and providi...Daugiau...
The volume presents the rich array of contributions from IOQS 2022 meeting, demonstrating how Qumran scholarship turns to consider performative and ritual aspects of the Dead Sea Scrolls....Daugiau...
In this collaborative volume, we study the role of Judeo-Languages in literary, social, cultural and religious channels of knowledge transfer, especially in regards to the distribution of oral and written traditions beyond the core circles of the int...Daugiau...
Psychoanalysis and the Wisdom of Ecclesiastes looks at one of the most profound books in the Hebrew Bible - Ecclesiastes, known as Koheleth in Hebrew - through a psychoanalytic lens.Paul Marcus explores Ecclesiastes understanding of...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 23-Sep-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691203607)
The first book-length study of the biblical villain Haman, examining his depiction across Judaism, Christianity, and IslamHaman, infamous as the antagonist in the book of Esther, appears as a villainous figure in virtually al...Daugiau...
A groundbreaking reinterpretation of early Judaism, during the millennium before the study of the Bible took center stageEarly Judaism is often described as the religion of the book par excellencea movement built around the study o...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 22-Sep-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111590332)
Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer (PRE) is most famous for introducing into rabbinic tradition several legends about biblical figures not found in the classical rabbinic corpus of Talmud and Midrash. Modern scholarship considers the non-rabbinic le...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Sep-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Baylor University Press, ISBN-13: 9781481324465)
This is an unusual book, rich with intrigue. It is, foremost, a book about Ecclesiastesnot a commentary, not another scholarly monograph, but rather a guide to understanding the angle of vision the ancient text asks us to see: that is, how to liv...Daugiau...
Communicating Esther presents a communications approach to the second-most written about book of the Bible, the book of Esther, and the ritual that it anchors, the Jewish carnival of Purim. This book will appeal to all researchers of communication a...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Sep-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111575360)
The volume offers a broad introduction to the rabbinical literature written in the two major traditional Jewish languages of Europe: Yiddish, the language of the Ashkenazic Jews of Eastern Europe, and Ladino (or Judezmo or Judeo-Spanish), the langua...Daugiau...
First published in 1980, Jewish Jurisprudence is the first volume of an important series analysing and setting forth the substantive principles of Jewish jurisprudence....Daugiau...
First published in 1986, Jewish Jurisprudence is the second volume of an important series analysing and setting forth the substantive principles of Jewish jurisprudence....Daugiau...
Beguiling Guidance, the first full-length study of Sefer hamusar, critically examines the social-historical, philosophical, kabbalistic, and literary aspects of the only Hebrew picaresque maqma to emerge from late medieval Yemen, and provides a comp...Daugiau...
Sociological memory studies and trauma theory reveal the nature of memory framework formation at work within Second Isaiahs poetryformation that is essential for exilic Judeans if they want to receive Yahwehs healing comfort for their exilic suffe...Daugiau...
The book explores the beauty and richness of Elishas stories, including short legends, through literary analysis, highlighting their place within the genre of prophetic hagiography....Daugiau...
Experts from the field of biblical studies shed light on the many ways in which the Psalter psalms have been used through the ages. The focus across the volume is on the role that these psalms play in scribal, liturgical, didactic,...Daugiau...
