Biblical and Judaic Acronyms
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Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780870684388
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Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar
Author: Wilhelm Gesenius
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Published: 1895
Total Pages: 614
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKZohar, the Book of Enlightenment
Author: Daniel Chanan Matt
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780809123872
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first translation with commentary of selections from The Zohar, the major text of the Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition. This work was written in 13th-century Spain by Moses de Leon, a Spanish scholar.
From Jesus to Christ
Author: Paula Fredriksen
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008-10-01
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 0300164106
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Magisterial. . . . A learned, brilliant and enjoyable study."—Géza Vermès, Times Literary Supplement In this exciting book, Paula Fredriksen explains the variety of New Testament images of Jesus by exploring the ways that the new Christian communities interpreted his mission and message in light of the delay of the Kingdom he had preached. This edition includes an introduction reviews the most recent scholarship on Jesus and its implications for both history and theology. "Brilliant and lucidly written, full of original and fascinating insights."—Reginald H. Fuller, Journal of the American Academy of Religion "This is a first-rate work of a first-rate historian."—James D. Tabor, Journal of Religion "Fredriksen confronts her documents—principally the writings of the New Testament—as an archaeologist would an especially rich complex site. With great care she distinguishes the literary images from historical fact. As she does so, she explains the images of Jesus in terms of the strategies and purposes of the writers Paul, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John."—Thomas D’Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor
Gesenius's Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament Scriptures
Author: Wilhelm Gesenius
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Published: 1893
Total Pages: 944
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Rise and Fall of the Bible
Author: Timothy Beal
Publisher: HMH
Published: 2011-02-16
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 0547504411
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA professor of religion offers an “engrossing and excellent” look at how the Good Book has changed—and changed the world—through the ages (Publishers Weekly, starred review). In a lively journey from early Christianity to the present, this book explores how a box of handwritten scrolls became the Bible, and how the multibillion-dollar business that has brought us Biblezines and Manga Bibles is selling down the Book’s sacred capital. Showing us how a single official text was created from the proliferation of different scripts, Timothy Beal traces its path as it became embraced as the word of God and the Book of books. Christianity thrived for centuries without any Bible—there was no official canon of scriptures, much less a book big enough to hold them all. Congregations used various collections of scrolls and codices. As the author reveals, there is no “original” Bible, no single source text behind the thousands of different editions on the market today. The farther we go back in the holy text’s history, the more versions we find. In calling for a fresh understanding of the ways scriptures were used in the past, the author of Biblical Literacy offers the chance to rediscover a Bible, and a faith, that is truer to its own history—not a book of answers, but a library of questions.
Tanakh Epistemology
Author: Douglas Yoder
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-05-21
Total Pages: 534
ISBN-13: 1108580408
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this volume, Douglas Yoder uses the tools of modern and postmodern philosophy and biblical criticism to elucidate the epistemology of the Tanakh, the collection of writings that comprise the Hebrew Bible. Despite the conceptual sophistication of the Tanakh, its epistemology has been overlooked in both religious and secular hermeneutics. The concept of revelation, the genre of apocalypse, and critiques of ideology and theory are all found within or derive from epistemic texts of the Tanakh. Yoder examines how philosophers such as Spinoza, Hume, and Kant interacted with such matters. He also explores how the motifs of writing, reading, interpretation, image, and animals, topics that figure prominently in the work of Derrida, Foucault, and Nietzsche, appear also in the Tanakh. An understanding of Tanakh epistemology, he concludes, can lead to new appraisals of religious and secular life throughout the modern world.
Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham
Author: Ellen Birnbaum
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-09-07
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9004423648
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this new English translation and commentary of Philo’s On the Life of Abraham Ellen Birnbaum and John Dillon show how and why this unique biography displays Philo’s philosophical, exegetical, and literary genius at its best.
The Apocalypse of Abraham
Author: George Herbert Box
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 176
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic and Mysticism
Author: Geoffrey W. Dennis
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0738709050
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow are alchemy, astrology, magic, and numerology related to Jewish mysticism? The fabulous, miraculous, and mysterious are all explored in this comprehensive reference to Jewish esotericism-the first of its kind! From amulets and angels to the zodiac and zombies, the "Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic and Mysticism" features over one thousand alphabetical entries. Rabbi Geoffrey W. Dennis offers a much-needed culmination of Jewish occult teachings that includes significant stories, mythical figures, practices, and ritual objects. Spanning the Bible, the Midrash, Kabbalah, and other mystical branches of Judaism, this well-researched text is meant to trigger insight, spark inspiration, and illuminate one of the oldest esoteric traditions still alive today.
